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Contact improvisation and TaiChiChuan

27.04

Sat

09:30 to 12:30

Format

In person

Photo Conrado Lessa

Contact improvisation and TaiChiChuan

 

The proposal is to recognize some common points between these two body practices, TaiChiChuan and contact improvisation. What matters is researching body movement and training listening skills for improvisation.
The experience of tasting the ancient training of TaiChiChuan gives us the chance to perceive with a greater degree of readiness the construction of a solid and calm foundation, lowering expectations about how we move in contact dance.
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First Compass, Tânia Murakami.  

9:30 to 10:50 

We will do vital energy training through Taoist TaiChiChuan practices where the opposites of movement/non-movement, movement/serenity, visible/invisible, yin and yang complement each other, generating a Unity. And with his Taoist outlook and reflections, he will mention some basic points that can help with Contact Improvisation.

Second Compass, Mariana Taques

11:10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

At this point in the meeting we will focus on the duality between falling and loading (weight exchange); dense weight and light weight; the entry and exit of the contact relationship involving bone alignments and muscular direction. The idea is to unravel some of the choreographies used in contact improvisation and to take on the choreographic thinking that insists on holding back in the imaginary and in the practice of contact improvisation dance.

 

Contact improvisation: 

It can be a form of contemporary dance where the anchors are set in the exercise of autonomy, the appreciation of simple movements and the integration of the body in dialogue with the internal and external environment.

 

Information:

🔸 Date: Saturday, April 27 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
🔸Location: Condô Cultural - Rua Mundo Novo, 342 Vila Anglo Brasileira - São Paulo - SP, Brazil
🔸Investment: R$ 130

 

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Who are we?

 

Mariana Taques, She has a degree in veterinary medicine from the State University of Maringá and a degree in Humor from the Sp Escola de Teatro. Her research in dance focuses on improvisation in contact and transit between other languages, such as parkour, performance and the clown's mask. She works with independent collectives in national and international partnerships. She is a member of Núcleo Improvisação em Contato. She has given dance improvisation workshops in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, France and Chile.

 

Further information

 

Tânia Murakami He became interested in TaiChi at the same time that he was attending music college (FASM). He heard that it was good for musicians to do TaiChi. She practiced until, 10 years later (1999), she met Taoist Taichichuan through TaiChiPaiLin, and completely identified with it. She is a teacher at the TaiChiPaiLin Association and at Condô Cultural. She works as a musician and composer (flute-piano) and teacher (piano). She participated in Zeca Baleiro's soundtrack for the dance show "O Cubo". She has recorded with Maurício Pereira and Tonho Penhasco. Today she plays with Silvan Galvão, Marcelo Nakamura, the "Orquestra Magnífica de Musicas do Mundo", the dance company Yandêtranspará and the duo Raízes do Japão.

 

Further information TaiChi PaiLin in TaiChi JarDim (Tânia Murakami-Caren L. Harayama/"En-Laços do Destino")

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