INTERMEDIATE PROGRAM 2 - WEEK 5 (5-9 August 2024)

Body Studies with Diane Madden
Starting each day from where we are through simple movement forms we awaken to the movement of our attention. By honing our awareness of the moment to moment fluidity of our thoughts and sensations we can bring our minds and body’s into sync. Stillness will be used to reveal the wealth of internal movement and choice-making that is ever-present within busy minds and bodies. Tuning into “the direction of down” we find fluid weight can align with ground force providing expansive three dimensional support throughout our bodies.
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Contemporary technique class with Diane Madden
Building upon the mindfulness work in the previous class, we layer our awareness from inward to outward bringing our movement into relationship with others and the space. Aligned forces of weight and support are brought into play through partnering and ensemble work. The dynamic of falling will be used as a tool to experience the balance of release and activation, mobilizing our center of weight to provide a readiness and responsiveness to the movement around us. We cultivate a taste for the authenticity of weight and intention in our movement becoming available to ideas and impulses both within and around us. This class will provide a bridge into the afternoon workshop.
Biography Diane Madden>>

Workshop Improvisation 'Intact method' with Rakesh Sukesh
Intact is a training method generated through years of research, observation and adaptation to our current times, while also based on intrinsic human characteristics: breath, movement, emotion, thought, intention, environment. Its main goal lies in enhancing humanness in its most raw and genuine form. This method creates a safe and honest place that embraces and acknowledges our inner world, both weaknesses and strengths, to learn how to use them through reflection and striving for further development. It is an interconnected training system that utilises movement as a base to create, confront and play within crisis. It provides the timespace to get to know one’s personal form and how to use the body to broaden the range of movement vocabulary. As a holistic form, it is inspired by tools from specific lineages, such as breath, meditation and the inner mechanics of yogi principles, while also utilising the movement and philosophies from kalari payatt. This interwoven structure combines and rearranges these tools and ideas in a proposal for a new approach. In these classes, one can expect a dedication to raising awareness to individuality and inner workings, an awakening of the senses that leads to an ability to control and manage external triggers. In other words, taking charge of one's self.
Rakesh Sukesh>>