Folktrance Workshop
In this workshop we will practice states of being moved. Moving and expressing yourself from a state of flow, instead of active moving. Everybody knows those moments when the head comes in and blocks us with judgement and overthinking from free flowing, improvising, spontaneity and trusting our intuition. What we offer is the practice of surrendering to the intelligence and wisdom of the body in order to find the way to our full creative potential (regardless of your profession). This is the state where self-judgement, overthinking and blockages are replaced by self-empowerment, flow and mindfulness. The way we will get there is through folk and trance. The folk aspect comes in by using a variety of existing and spontaneous folk dances. Another form of Folktrance practice we will use is „cognitive trance“. A practice developed by Corine Sombrun, which has its roots in Mongolian shamanism and aims to discover the trance potential in everyone of us. You will learn how to initiate and stop the trance state by self-induction and we will show you how to use it for your personal benefits and creative processes in your job, your private life etc.
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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has been recognized by shamans of the Mongolian highlands as one of their own in 2001. She has been trained for many years in their rituals and trance techniques by a shaman of the Tsaatan ethnic group. Thanks to her experience in the practice of trance and her ability to induce it only by her willpower, she has been collaborating with different researchers from various fields since 2006. The goal is to discover the physiological mechanisms related to this state of trance and its influence on the functioning of the cerebral hemispheres.
Price: € 120/60
In order to participate please fill in and sign this consent release form.
This workshop runs from 30 September until 4 October 2019 and is aimed at dancers, performers, musicians a. o.