This
Transformative Practice Residency is an Invitation to come SHIFT
WITHIN by Reconnecting to the Self & your Lived-Experience.
Through various Somatic exercises adapted within the conceptual model
of the ancient chakra system (sacred architecture of body and psyche)
we will explore our lived-body or soma as a site for Insight,
Integration, Knowing and Transformation; Our Performances will
inquire & research what’s most relevant to our Present Selves
This
residency is a class designed as a part of the graduate thesis of the
facilitator, Pushpanjali Sharma, M.A. (Embodied Studies), Lesley
University, Cambridge, U.S.A. She is offering it in India for the
very first time.
Day 1
(4thApril)
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Day
2
(5thApril)
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Day
3
(6thApril)
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Day
4
(7thApril)
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Day
5
(8thApril)
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Day
6
(9thApril)
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10-12pm
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Daily-
Opening
Interaction
Different
Somatic Exercises (Body-Mind Centering, Feldenkrais, Continuum and
Ideokinesis) utilizing visualization, sound and movement.
Chakra
Dhyana
Followed
by Movement Improvisation- Play
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12-12.30pm
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Tea-break
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12.30-2.00pm
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Writing,
Sharing/Discussion, Generating content and material for
Performance
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2.00-3.00pm
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Lunch-break
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3.00-5.00pm
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Lab
time- Each Individual will work on their own performance/creative
piece supported by the facilitator; Performances will inquire into
the subject matter that is spontaneously emerging during the day,
as well explore/interpret what it means to move beyond frames, and
peel off social-masks
Closing
Discussion
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Take
Aways:
- Explore and Learn Somatic (mind-body) practices for self-healing, self-knowing and self-expression; Come alive to a renewed sense of embodiment; discover the joy in movement, dance and being.
- Move away from the typical way in which the body has always been treated as a puppet, an instrument or a hired body, towards an epistemology of the lived-body as a site for insight, integration, knowing, wisdom and transformation.
- Investigate into the seven aspects of the self represented by the chakra system through chakra dhyana
- Let go of end-gaining and goal driven approaches, in favor of process oriented approaches
- Find support in the self and in each other
- Adopt approaches that promote a balance between work and rest, and incorporate effortlessness and ease in our lived-experience
- Reclaim your creative agency and your authentic voice. Learn to create a performance piece, through your own organic somatic process, that inquires into what is most relevant to you right now.
Please
Bring:
- Bring to our first class meeting one personal item- can be a poem, an object, picture, music, photograph, anything that is significant to you which you could share with others. This could be something that has heart and meaning for you in your relationship to the arts, embodied practices and healing.
- A towel for supporting the body during somatic practice
- A notebook/journal and pen
- Colour pencils/ crayons/ art items (If you like to express through art, not cumpolsory), Individuals may chose to bring anything that enhances/supports their medium of expression
- Wear comfortable clothing, in which you can breathe, express and move freely. For those who like to improvise and move uninhibitedly on the floor and are wary of your knees, bring yourself a pair of knee pads for protection.
- For those of you who are choosing to stay on at Antara, please carry your own bed sheet, pillow cover and towel for personal use.
Pushpanjali
Sharma:
Belonging
to the sea- shore of Goa and the Foothills of Jammu, Pushpanjali
Sharma a performing artist and research-scholar in Somatic Education
& Transformative Practice is currently on the last stage of her
Master’s Degree in Embodied Studies from Lesley University,
Cambridge (U.S.A). As such she is taking the opportunity to
explore and examine somatic practices and its application towards
internal inquiry, embodied writing as well as somatic-performative
research. The residency at Antara is an amalgamation of the same.
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“I
am free from time, effort is replaced with ease, limitations are
transformed into freedom, and mundane is elevated to a heightened
state of connectedness to the source of all things.”
As
a contemporary dancer she has trained both in India (TR Dance
company, Mumbai, Gati Dance Center, New Delhi) and for the last three
years she has lived in New York training in Ballet-Contemporary track
at Peridance Capezio Center and studying composition and choreography
at Dance New Amsterdam (Certificate course) and Movement Research
(Somatic-Performative Intensives).
Alongside
being a trained pilates and yoga instructor, Pushpanjali has
researched several somatic practices- Feldenkrais, Body-Mind
Centering, Continuum and Ideokinesis, at Movement Research, NYC. She
has interned/menteed under second generation somatic leaders Dr.
Martha Eddy (Body-Mind Centering), Mary Abrams (Continuum). Studied
Arts and Healing under Vivien Marcow Speiser (Expressive Arts
Therapy) and has also taken several workshops under Michel Casanovas
(Feldenkrais Teacher- Dance maker).
"
I am fascinated by ‘true potential’, finding fresh ways to
enhance the experience of life! The idea of internal transformation
of the individual revolutionizing the whole, and finally creating and
performing work that is palpable, resonant and shifts both the
performer and the audience, drives me moment by moment!"
Kindly Note:
- This residency is open to all interested in embodied practices and performance inquiry. Previous dance experience is not mandatory.
- Lunch can be provided on prior notice.
- Residential facilities are available.
Workshop Venue:
12th main, Shubh Enclave,
Harlur Road, off Sarjapur Road,
Near Springfields Apts.
Bangalore , India.