Being moved: The art of celebration
Party and celebration? What is that? I guess, after so many months of living through the pandemic, most of us have realized how important it is to bring back moments of inner freedom by being moved on a good dancefloor.
This training will help you enter a state of being moved through the power of celebration. This practice is the result of the online Ecstatic Body Floor, which I have hosted every Friday since the beginning of the pandemic. Essentially, this training is a dancefloor that dives into different qualities and forms of celebration and how they move us (joy, sadness, anger, silence, music, coffee). It’s the perfect way to start the day. Digesting information, discovering my personal warm-up or preparing for the day (emotionally, physically, and mentally) and getting in contact with myself so I’m 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 place special emphasis on self-celebration. Training to stay in contact with my personal playlist – with what my body needs at this moment. Relaxing into a state of ‘there’s nothing to do’ can be the best party you’ve ever been to!
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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