Unplugged Dance ◘ Ecosomatic practices for living and dying

Dates: May 31 – June 6 

Life is made possible “through the long-lasting intimacy of strangers,” and our many “multi-species entanglements” – biologist Lynn Margulis

This workshop is an opportunity to center yourself and reawaken your innate capacity for connection with what is going on inside and around you. 

We will engage with ecosomatic practices for living and dying together on a damaged earth. Ecosomatics is a dynamic approach to living and learning which engages us through embodied practice into deeper relations with the world in which we live.

Together we will practice breathing, moving, sensing, perceiving, digesting, dying, and decomposing to help us perceive more of our living and the whole scale of the sensitivities and intelligences within us, the human and non-human, the transforming spaces, the before and after. Together, we will deepen our skills to listen, improvise, play, experiment,  grieve, dwell in the unknown, and trust the deep resources of our bodies to navigate challenge, sustain ourselves, and thrive.

Ecosomatics helps us understand that we are not only organisms hosted by a planet but that we are also a planet hosting many other organisms. The biodiversity of these planets ecosystems is what makes life possible and extraordinary.

Through somatic practice we can engage with scientific concepts building bridges between ideas and lived experience. This allows us to generate different kinds of being, feeling, understanding, and thinking which can generate new ways of relating, behaving, and giving value to the more than human world.

This workshop is for anyone and everybody interested in movement, our ecological bodies and consciousness regardless of experience or ability.

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BodyCartography Project is an artistic practice that “cultivates approaches to support our collective evolution in this moment of planetary crisis,” engaging “the vital materiality of bodies, minds, and the more-than-human world through somatics, dance, choreography, and performance.” 

Founded by Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, the project brings together decades of experience in dance, improvisation, Body-Mind Centering®, pedagogy, and site-responsive work across performance, education, and research contexts.

Their facilitation is grounded in developmental, biological, and ecological systems perspectives, combining Body-Mind Centering® with ecology, biology, and geology, through an embodied improvisational approach that emphasizes awareness, lived experience, and relational inquiry. 

Photos of BodyCartography’s Resisting Extinction by Piotr Nykowski

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This workshop is offered as part of the Unplugged Dance Program at Paleohori.

Alongside the 7-week core group, a limited number of guest spots are available during selected weeks. Guest participants join while the process is already unfolding, entering the environment of the longer journey through an intensive 1- or 2-week experience and contributing to the collective dynamic of the group.

Guest participation is not a shorter version of the program, but an opportunity to immerse oneself in the ongoing research and shared practice of the residency. 

Priority is given to participants with extensive experience (colleagues, professionals, facilitators, etc.) and/or familiarity with the Paleohori environment.

Guest Participation Sliding Scale Fee

1 workshop (8 days) €590–€750

2 workshops (16 days, Embodied Voice Flow & BodyCartography) ) €1200–€1500

Workshops, collective activities, three daily meals and shared accommodation are included. 

If you are interested in joining please send a short email introducing yourself to:

unpluggeddance@gmail.com