Morning Practice/Open Level 
 
Simon Mayer

Being Moved: The Art of Celebration

Simon Mayer

is a performer, choreographer and musician. He was born in Austria in 1984 and studied at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School, at the Performing Arts and Research Studios in Brussels (P.A.R.T.S.) and he was a member of the Vienna State Opera Ballet. In 2009, he founded his band Rising Halfmoon as a singer, songwriter and guitarist. Simon Mayer has worked for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and Zita Swoon, amongst others. He choreographed several solos, duets and group pieces, which have been presented internationally. He received the outstanding artist award from the Austrain Chancellery in 2017. Mayer was artist in residency at Theatre de L’L in Brussels and he organizes the international art festival SPIEL in Upper Austria together with his association spiel. Simon Mayer teaches contemporary, community and traditional dance and voice techniques and he is a guest teacher at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

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Being Moved: The Art of Celebration

Being Moved by what the body wants to teach me right now.
Being Moved by what I need in this moment.
Being Moved by joy, celebration and connection.

In this training and workshop, we invite the states of Being Moved and discover how they support our creative/artistic process and our human development. Being Moved means moving and expressing yourself through a state of flow. Everybody knows those moments when the mind becomes the dictator and challenges us with judgement and overthinking and keeps us away from free flow, spontaneity and trusting our intuition. What I offer is the practice of surrendering to the intelligence and wisdom of the body-mind alignment and its co-creation potential in order to find ways into our entire creative and emotional expression, self-empowerment, with clear boundaries, flow and consciousness. It’s the practice of Being Moved by what the body wants to teach me right now, by what it needs at this moment. Like this, we will discover how to use artistic practices (dance, music/voice, drawing, acting) for your well-being.

This training offers to enter the states of Being Moved (flow state) by the power of celebration and the reconnection to joy. It’s a hosted dancefloor that dives into being moved by different qualities and forms of celebration (celebrating joy, sadness, anger, silence, music, etc.). The art of celebration is a perfect start to the day. It contains the possibility to digest information from the past, find your inner resources, discover your personal warm-up for the day (emotionally, physically, and mentally) and get in contact with yourself so you are ready to meet others. Celebrating may sound like we need to DO a lot or be very active. But in fact, this training aims to prioritise your self-celebration, staying in contact with your personal playlist – with what your body needs at this moment. Relaxing into ‘there is nothing to do’ can be the best party you’ve ever been to!

Simon Mayer

is a performer, choreographer and musician. He was born in Austria in 1984 and studied at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School, at the Performing Arts and Research Studios in Brussels (P.A.R.T.S.) and he was a member of the Vienna State Opera Ballet. In 2009, he founded his band Rising Halfmoon as a singer, songwriter and guitarist. Simon Mayer has worked for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and Zita Swoon, amongst others. He choreographed several solos, duets and group pieces, which have been presented internationally. He received the outstanding artist award from the Austrain Chancellery in 2017. Mayer was artist in residency at Theatre de L’L in Brussels and he organizes the international art festival SPIEL in Upper Austria together with his association spiel. Simon Mayer teaches contemporary, community and traditional dance and voice techniques and he is a guest teacher at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

hiros.be
simonmayer.at

27.03.–
31.03.
Mon–​Fri
09.30
60 min
27.03.–
31.03.
Mon–​Fri
09.30
60 min
TQW Studios
€ 12/*4
Combined ticket Morning Practice + Workshop: € 120/*55
Free admission for refugees

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