Holding and Letting Go

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Holding on and letting go – two unbridgeable opposites?

We will explore the transitions from one state to the other: emotionally as well as qualitatively in expression and movement. On our own and in improvised contact with others we will playfully find their rich shades from fluent to abrupt, just as we choose. The necessary physical experience of being held (by the earth’s gravity) will serve as a prerequisite for our letting go of the habitual. We might then perceive the letting go of control not so much as a loss, but rather as a simple moving on into the next situation.

On this basis we will work on and make use of the Release technique in dance and movement, nourished by our inner letting go of concepts, ideas and expectations.

The main topics on this journey are the body’s innate reflexes and fluids, the vestibular/equilibrium system in the inner ear and the nerve receptors in the joints, the interplay of muscle fibres and facial layers, the flow within our connective tissue.