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Body Weather is a comprehensive movement research and performance training originating in Japan by Min Tanaka and the members of the Body Weather Laboratory Tokyo. In the 1970s he was joined by dancers and non-dancers, writers and other artists who had an interest in investigating and researching through the body. Body Weather is not a movement technique as such but an exploration of the intersections of bodies and their environments, an attention towards ever-shifting internal and external states and circumstances, often emphasizing improvisation, image-based work, somatic sensitivity, as well as a examining non‐hierarchical approaches to community and exchange.

About the workshop:

This Body Weather workshop consists of MB (Muscle~Bones/Mind~Body), a practice that is a physical dynamic training that awakens different form of attention, rhythm, coordination, flexibility and endurance. MB will be followed by a guided form of touch based partner work. We will then propose a series of sensory and perception explorations, spending time both inside and outside.

The workshop is facilitated by Selina Papoutseli and Petra Söör.

No previous experience necessary, open to anyone with a curiosity for exploring body and environment.

Practical information:

Arrival:13th September

Workshop: 14-18 September, 10-17h

Departure:19th September

Pricing:
Participation fee: 80-180 euro (sliding scale)
Accommodation: 12-20 night (check Massia sliding scale https://www.massia.ee/contact-and-reservations/)
Collective food contribution: 10e/day
Massia membership: 12e (valid one year)

Please familiarize yourself with Massia self-organization principles before booking: https://www.massia.ee/massia-basics/

Facilitators bios:

Petra is a Swedish/Italian dancer, maker and facilitator based in Stockholm.
Her making and practice is rooted in different forms of improvisation, a long term interest in collective and collaborative processes, ecology/ies, environment and their intersection with(in) different forms of human and non-human bodies at different stages of life. Projects include ‘Intimacies and Transmutational Bodies’, ‘This walking in the dark’, ‘Sleeping a Walking Mountain’, ‘Undanced Dances’, ‘Bodies of Rock, Mud and Water’. She is also evolving her interest in person-centred approaches to movement and different modalities of touch to support health and wellbeing. For the past 15 years she has been engaged in different ways with Body Weather through training, organising and facilitating laboratories and workshops.

Selina is a Greek performance maker, movement artist and workshop facilitator based in London and Athens.The focus of her work has always been on the sensuous body in its different expressions and forms. Specifically the last few years she is drawn to the intricacies of our bodies on a cellular level and their interactions with our inner and outer environments. She trained with various butoh dancers but her main teacher was Masaki Iwana. Since 1999 she has been training and practicing bodyweather. (Min Tanaka, Frank Van De Ven , Christine Quoiraud, Oguri, Tess de Quincey,Andres Cochero).She is also certified Practitioner of Body Mind Centering®️. She co founded Petra’s Pulse with Jamie Wood and co-directed and performed in all their shows. She has been a long collaborator of Mamoru Iriguchi as a performer and dramaturg.

Our relationship to BW

As performers, makers and facilitators we met whilst living in London, both being active within an international BW research community. Having studied with amongst others Min Tanaka, Frank van de Ven, Christine Quoiraud, Oguri, Katerina Bakatsaki and Andrés Cochero, together we have almost 30 years of experience and continue study and explore the legacy, influence and relevance of BW today, organising workshops with BW practitioners and artists from the first generation.