Contemporary Dance: Somatic approach

SOMA is a movement/dance training designed to deepen body-mind connection through somatic practices such as Laban-Bartenieff Fundamentals and BodyMind Centring. Through mindful movement, we invite dancers, performers, actors, artists and movement practitioners/ sympathizers of all levels to explore internal physical awareness, enhance their perception of space and environment, improve energy efficiency and fluidity and to release habitual tension.

Our sessions also draw inspiration from Butoh, mainly its emphasis on exploring the inconscious and the primal aspects of the human experience as well as on its meditative and imaginative process of movement creation.

Besides engaging in a variety of techniques that promote flexibility, strength, concentration, creative and improvisational skills, we look forward to encouraging the exploration of deeper layers of physical and emotional expression.

Mondays and Wednesdays

7-8.30pm

Chapitô – R. Costa do Castelo, 7, 1149-079 Lisboa, Portugal

https://chapito.org/areas-de-actuacao/formacao/cursos-fim-de-tarde/

Thursdays

11.30-12.45am

Maloca Asssociação Cultural – R. da Penha de França, 67A, 1170-027 Lisboa, Portugal

@maloca_lisboa

Fridays

11.00-12.30am

cem centro em movimento – R. dos Fanquiros, 150, 1100-232 Lisboa, Portugal

https://c-e-m.org/ 

Christina Elias is a multidisciplinary artist who works on the borders between dance, visual arts and literature. Concluded a Master’s degree in Movement Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London, 2011), a PhD in Design from Anhembi Morumbi University (São Paulo, 2020) and a Post-Doctorate in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP (2021 ). Taught courses and workshops at several renowned institutions, such as FUNARTE São Paulo, Uferstudios Berlin, MAXXI Roma, Estúdio Anacã de Dança São Paulo, Estúdio Rampa Rio de Janeiro, Museu Casa Guilherme de Almeida São Paulo, CEM Centro em Movimento Lisboa and Chapitô Lisboa . In the academic field, she taught at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London), PUC-São Paulo (Body Arts), Anhembi-Morumbi University (Dance) and University of Tsukuba (Japan, Intercultural Studies and Performance). Currently, Christina offers regular movement and contemporary dance practices in Lisbon, at Chapitô, CEM Centro em Movimento and Associação Maloca. Her artistic and pedagogical practice extends to inclusive projects in museums and institutions in Brazil and Europe, where he developed work focused on training in movement and body expression studies for people with physical and mental disabilities, deaf people, women and the elderly. Christina also has international experience collaborating and studying with renowned Butoh artists, such as Minako Seki and Yuko Kaseki (Berlin) and Tetsuro Fukuhara (Tokyo), and was a trainee assistant director to choreographer Sasha Waltz in the creation of the dance opera Matsukaze (2010) .