Body Liberation Retreat

Body Reso­nan­ce based on Butoh Dan­ce, Dan­ce with Natu­re and Authen­tic Move­ment

BODY LIBERATION RETRAIT – How can we achie­ve body libe­ra­tion? How can we nou­rish the hea­ling body? In this retreat we will dan­ce and move, encou­ra­ging the resi­lient body, fle­xi­ble like lea­ves in the wind and sta­ble like deep roo­ts, capa­ble of meta­mor­pho­sis and tran­sfor­ma­tion. This retreat is based on “Body Reso­nan­ce” — based on Butoh and orga­nic move­ment and “Dan­ce with Natu­re” and Authen­tic Move­ment, a jour­ney into the reso­nan­ces of the body, ima­ges and natu­re.

PROGRAM – In the mor­ning ses­sion, Yumi­ko Yoshio­ka leads “Body Reso­nan­ce”, a mee­ting with the memo­ries of the body, its reso­nan­ces, free­ing the resi­lient ele­ment of our body. The lunch break will give us the oppor­tu­ni­ty to rest in natu­re or cool off in the sea! In the after­noon, Anna­li­sa Mag­gia­ni will lead us with “Dan­ce with natu­re” in the reso­nan­ces of the ele­men­ts. Our body will find a way to expand and free the ima­gi­na­tion and the poten­tial for meta­mor­pho­sis, trai­ned in the mor­ning, up to authen­tic move­ment” by let­ting itself be moved by the ima­ges and con­tac­ting the expe­rien­ce of the col­lec­ti­ve body. The two parts mer­ge with each other , a path open to reso­nan­ces, to open­ness to expe­rien­ce and aware­ness, to free­ing emo­tio­nal and bodi­ly blocks and to the inte­gra­tion of this expe­rien­ce into our life and art.

OUR PHILOSOPHY — The body under­stood as a pla­ce of Being, of Beco­ming, of Pas­sa­ge in the con­ti­nuous flow of exi­sten­ce, as a pla­ce of trea­su­res to be kno­wn: by giving sha­pe to the ima­ges that start from the body and from the encoun­ter with natu­re we obtain a per­cep­tion stron­ger than the world of sen­sa­tions, of inter­nal land­sca­pes and of the con­nec­tion with the exter­nal world, of the con­nec­tion not only with our­sel­ves but also with what sur­rounds us and with natu­re and the uni­ver­se of which we are part.

BODY LIBERATION! — This retreat does not want to be a the­ra­py, but an expe­rien­ce of dan­ce, move­ment and crea­ti­vi­ty, which offers the pos­si­bi­li­ty of being more recep­ti­ve, in con­tact with the Self that nou­ri­shes us, open to crea­ti­ve expe­rien­ce and life: orga­nic move­ment , the reso­nan­ces of the body, the encoun­ter with natu­re and the trans-per­so­nal aspect can nou­rish the rege­ne­ra­tion ener­gies inhe­rent in the body: Body Libe­ra­tion! Yumi­ko Yoshio­ka and Anna­li­sa Mag­gia­ni have been col­la­bo­ra­ting for about 30 years in per­for­man­ces, per­for­ma­ti­ve pro­jec­ts and work­shops. This new pro­po­sal was born from the desi­re to crea­te a retreat for rege­ne­ra­tion and self-care by com­bi­ning Body Reso­nan­ce and Butoh with Dan­ce with Natu­re and Authen­tic Move­ment.

• Yumi­ko Yoshio­ka — Part of the third gene­ra­tion of Butoh dan­cers, Yumi­ko Yoshio­ka has deve­lo­ped a per­so­nal sty­le of body work cal­led Body Reso­nan­ce, which inte­gra­tes Butoh prac­ti­ce, Nogu­chi Tai­so gym­na­stics and various other Asian trai­ning methods to help pre­pa­re the body for recei­ve and tran­smit dan­ce and crea­tion. Body Reso­nan­ce starts from the idea that the world, inclu­ding our body and soul, is made up of vibra­tio­nal waves that crea­te con­stant reso­nan­ces like an echo. When we tune our body to that fre­quen­cy, we recei­ve ima­ges, fee­lings and sen­sa­tions as a result. For this to hap­pen, we must fir­st sha­ke off unne­ces­sa­ry ten­sions. In effect, we crea­te a blank can­vas of our body to paint new colors on. “I teach this as a “neu­tra­li­za­tion” pro­cess, encou­ra­ging a near-zero sta­te, eli­mi­na­ting rust, and poli­shing the “anten­na” to cap­tu­re waves from the deep layers of the body. The tran­sfor­ma­tions and con­cen­tra­tions of the dan­ce break the egg­shell of the form. The armor of our ego mel­ts away, allo­wing reso­nant memo­ries to emer­ge from our cells floa­ting in the pri­mor­dial liquid of time.”
• Anna­li­sa Mag­gia­ni, dan­cer, per­for­mer and psy­cho­lo­gi­st, has deve­lo­ped her own method “Move­ment-Dan­ce with Natu­re and Aware­ness”, the result of long research aimed at crea­ting a ground of aware­ness and inte­gra­tion bet­ween the body, the ima­gi­na­tion, the evo­lu­tio­na­ry pha­ses and the ele­men­ts of natu­re: Butoh dan­ce, Shin­rin Yoku, Dan­ce-Move­ment-The­ra­py, authen­tic move­ment, and Art-The­ra­py are the focal poin­ts of this research. Fun­da­men­tal poin­ts of Dan­ce with Natu­re are to re-esta­blish a con­nec­tion with the “natu­ral body”, com­bi­ne indi­vi­dual rituals with col­lec­ti­ve rituals, the reso­nan­ce of ima­ges of Natu­re, natu­ral ele­men­ts and the body, the birth of a per­so­nal dan­ce, con­nec­ting our expe­rien­ces to our dai­ly life. The Authen­tic Move­ment gives this approach the roo­ts of an embo­died pre­sen­ce as the basis for the deve­lo­p­ment of aware­ness and a sen­se of well-being and belon­ging.

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