seeing and being
This guided practice intends to renew clarity about our current bodily realities, expand ways of being present in relating and to sharpen the compass of our desires within our movement based work.
We slow ourselves way down into a meditative state of ‘relational rest’ on the ground, welcoming any inner ‘unrest’. Together we practice cruising our perception of sensing, thinking and being while initially ‘doing’ nothing. We go for grasping outer form, time and space through inner relating of cosmic forces to our flesh, breath, senses, fluids and bones. Movements emerge from there, if they want to, from the desires, aversions, sensual curiosities and relations with subtle presences in each moment anew. Like a daily resurrection ritual that might offer moments of inner knowing on how exactly to proceed one breath at a time.
was born in Vienna and has worked as a choreographer, dancer, performer and teacher in New York City for the last almost three decades. In her work she aims to get closer to visual art, psyche, somatics, sexuality and transience through performance. She was awarded the Artists Award by the NY Foundation for Contemporary Art and was regular faculty at Movement Research NY. Her work and workshops are offered internationally, most recently at ImpulsTanz and Center for Performance research Brooklyn. Now back in Vienna, she co-founded School of Dying in 2022 and has been further developing her study program process as guide for dance artists since 2017. Melanie Maar is also a certified Qi Gong practitioner, occasionally teaches Janet Panetta’s approach to Ballet, works with clients through Somatic Sexology and currently leads Discos with people with mental and physical disabilities.