second cycle

second cycle

August 19 – 26, 2025 

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A week of deep listening, of tracing the body’s hidden landscapes and reimagining movement as a passage through the known and the unknown.

This week is an invitation to navigate the body as both terrain and traveler, as an ever-shifting map of sensation, perception, and connection. Through improvisation, sensory exploration, and embodied awareness, we open space for new ways of moving, seeing, and being seen. We wander between structure and fluidity, between presence and transformation, allowing movement to emerge as a response to the moment, to others, to the unseen.

A journey into what moves us, what shapes us, and what is waiting to be discovered.

 In Incognito Bodies, we map the shifting landscapes of the body through improvisation, exploring its deep structures and connections beyond the habitual. Body Landscape extends this journey, merging experiential anatomy, Butoh, and meditative movement to cultivate awareness and creative expression. Together, these workshops offer a poetic and playful exploration of embodiment, inviting participants to wander, sense, and reimagine their relationship with movement and space.

 

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Incognito Bodies with Fernando Nicolás Pelliccioli & Carlos Osatinsky 

Laboratory for Body Exploration and Creative Practices on Improvisation departing from practices of espaciopropio.augenblick, towards a skeleton dance.

In this workshop, we propose a creative laboratory inviting you to dive through possible cartographies of the body-space

where we can reveal misty potentialities that are born and move us beyond the margins of the usual.

 

The meetings begin with practices of espaciopropio.augenblick, with the purpose of bringing our attention to the body-space, and ways of aligning ourselves in contact with our submerged geology: the bones that support us and their multiple deep interconnections.

We will propose concrete experiences of exploration and improvisation based on possible maps that offer a certain orientation for listening, wandering, and being in subtle contact with the question of how the unknown can be embodied, as a stranger, becoming other, fully entering into creative processes where the body and what happens between bodies becomes an access to the terra incognita that we are.

As sensitive explorers, we will navigate through the creative experience, opening ourselves to singular and shared territories where questioning is never exhausted, where our changing perception is always at play, and where the use of improvisation as a resource and procedure unfolds multiple spaces and lets go of the moving imagination to weave common worlds.

 

From the unknown body to the world as an unknown.

 

Explore, re_map, investigate without conquering, enter into terrains for elusive experiences, follow the flows, slopes, and channels of movement,

smell and intuit, rest in the shadow, approach what is revealed, blur the edges,

and immerse ourselves in the worlds that dance as an original practice to recognize ourselves.

 

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Body Landscape: A practice of exploration, embodiment, creation and connection

with Thalia Ditsa

 

In Body Landscape we explore the body as we explore the world: with openness, sensitivity and curiosity.

We seek to connect with experience and share rituals of care and expression.

 

The practice combines experiential anatomy, Butoh, improvisation, physical theatre and meditative movement

practices (such as authentic movement), inviting presence and cultivating our expressive and perceptual capacity.

The practice includes Qi work for grounding and energy care, and gradually opens our awareness of the

cosmic body, connecting us to the uninterrupted flow of energy from our microcosm to the universe.

The goal is to experience a body that is alive and relaxed, with calm alertness.

 

The workshop includes bodywork, relaxation and strengthening techniques, games in pairs and groups.

We explore inner and outer landscapes guided by anatomy and images from Butoh,

allowing the body to travel through the senses, to nourish ourselves sensually, to enjoy.

We open to different creative responses (movement, writing, visuals)

and encourage a creative dialogue in the group for mutual inspiration and nourishment.

 

The workshop is for anyone who wants to explore physicality in a playful and poetic way, regardless of experience.

Ideal for artists, therapists and anyone interested in physical expression.

 

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Bios

Carlos Osatinsky & Fernando Nicolás Pelliccioli are contemporary dancers, performers, choreographers, explorers and facilitators of movement. Under the title espaciopropio.augenblick, they teach classes and workshops where they share and develop the conceptual and material axes explored in their work. They are motivated to discover tools that facilitate and support creative and vital processes based on the body’s own experience.

Together, they have been developing a long research into movement as a way of developing processes in life and artistic practice for more than 20 years. They are guided by their interest in the reflexive interrelation between body and environment. In their work, they investigate and combine practices based on the principles of Klein Technique and Alexander Technique with their own search to address integral creation and learning processes. They offer a praxis that transcends the specificity of the scene towards a full and transformative inhabitation of the body in everyday life.

They have been invited as Guest Professors at the School of Dance of the Korea National University of Arts, in Seoul, South Korea; have guided laboratories for c.e.m. (center in movement, Lisbon), in F.A.C.E. (Buenos Aires) and Ushuaia (Argentina). They have taught classes, workshops, laboratories and intensive seminars at various festivals and sites in Argentina and Europe. They continually collaborate with Jonathan Martineau in Spain on his Butosofia research and together they have created the annual retreat for the exploration of the body in nature “The Body in its World” which has already been held for seven editions. 

 

Thalia Ditsa (GR/UK) is an Athens-based movement teacher, performer, choreographer, and dance researcher. She facilitates groups in creative expression and personal development through the arts. Thalia holds an MA in Choreography (Dartington College of Arts, UK) and an MA in Political Science and Sociology (University of Athens). In her practice, Body Landscape, she blends influences such as Butoh, experiential anatomy, somatic practices, and improvisation. She is trained as an Expressive Art Therapist and is completing her training in Gestalt psychotherapy.
She has worked on educational projects promoting democratic practices in Greek public schools, using performing arts to address social issues and foster collaboration. Thalia also organizes professional development workshops for performing artists (Composers and Choreographers residency at Kinitiras) and founded Ma-embodied performance lab, where she has produced five works to date. She co-authored the book 10+1 Dance Stories, published in 2024 in collaboration with Ch. Polymenakos and I. Fylla. Thalia recently established Flock Collective, a company focused on research and practice in performing arts and somatic practices. Her work prioritizes community, participation, diversity, rituals of care and ecology through artistic and educational projects.

 

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