This site-specific marine workshop combines the perception and awareness of movement on land with the experience of aquatic and underwater movement in the marine environment. Inspired by the somatic approach of Body-Mind Centering®, the practice dives into the experience of the fluids within the body and into stages of embryonic and fetal development, in resonance with the evolution of life in water—from the first pulsating organic living forms to the most complex and integrated organizations of life.

The work offers the possibility to rediscover and reawaken spaces, patterns, perceptual and movement dynamics connected to the origins of life and to the memories of our development—both ontogenetic, of each of us as individuals, and phylogenetic, of us as a human species. In this way, participants are invited to tap into an original potential present in each of us, as a resource capable of informing and supporting our coexistence in the present.

It is a somatic practice of listening, deep perception, and sensitive movement that can evoke memories and intense emotions. The process opens and expands space and time, requiring kindness and a broad presence, while also allowing room for play and dynamic exploration.

Through this work, awareness expands toward how the intelligence of life manifests at the cellular level, beginning with space and its organization. Before identifying ourselves as a single body or person, we exist as a constellation of fluid spaces that communicate, transform, intersect, shape, and define themselves in relation to one another—a set of cells that cooperate according to an inspired intelligence, a vibration that pulsates in space before matter thickens and takes form. The roots of life lie in relating and flowing.

 

Bio

Eleonora Parello graduated in Social Communication Studies at the University of Milan and completed her artistic training in Italy, London, and New York. She is a Certified Teacher and Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®, a somatic movement educator, and an infant developmental movement educator. She also holds a diploma in Danza Sensibile® and is a Vinyasa Yoga teacher.

A movement artist, teacher, and trainer, she integrates her somatic experience of movement with more than twenty years of artistic and performing experience in dance, theater, and education for adults and children.

She has worked with directors and choreographers including Davide Iodice, Enzo Procopio, Roberto Corona, and Khosro Adibi; with Philippe Giradeau, Robert Carsen, and Liliana Cavani at Teatro alla Scala; with Giovanni Di Cicco, André Serban, and Egisto Marcucci at Teatro Carlo Felice; with the video studios Stalkervideo and N!03 in Milan; and for 25 years with Teatro Mangiafuoco, a children’s puppet theater company based in Milan.

She was co-founder and dancer of the Cinzia De Lorenzi Company (associated artists of Sosta Palmizi ’09). As an author, she created Le Ochine (Teatro Mangiafuoco, 2002), Dondolo (2005), Che dove (2009), Milkwood—a site-specific performance for a forest (winner of Up_nea 2012 for Etre/Fondazione Cariplo, Milan)—and I’ll set thee free for this (with the support of P.A.R.T.S. Summer Studio Brussels, Officine Caos Turin, and NudoecrudoTeatro Milan, 2014).

She has taught and continues to teach in public and private schools, professional training programs for contemporary dancers, private studios, and authorized centers for professional Body-Mind Centering® training across Europe.

Eleonora is the creator of a project that combines somatic movement with aquatic experiences and the discovery of marine life. For over ten years, she has been leading experiential workshops between land and water in the Mediterranean.

She practices meditation and is currently training at the SARVA School of the Dhyana Association (Psychology, Yoga, and Meditation).

 

 

 

 

Photo credit: Paolo Ciriello, Lorenzo Amore Bianco