18.10. Being moved / an imbalanced dancing body Elizabeth Damour

Workshop: Being moved / an imbalanced dancing body

Facilitator: Elizabeth Damour

When: Sunday 18th October

Time: 9:00 am – 11:00 pm

My practice is concerned with the perception of a poetic body working its ability to enter in a state of transformation.

After a  short gentle warm-up, participants are invited to investigate the body as a form always in transition, in a state of perpetual dissolution, playing with gravity and body support.

The in/comfort leads to the feeling of being moved, in a constant risk of leaning on emptiness. This process provides some interesting connections between participants.

This workshop is suitable for all bodies and ages and does not require any prior artistic or physical experience. Just wear a comfortable outfit.

My main purpose in dance activity is to stimulate the desire to create. I am vigilant to provide participants a working environment where they feel confident. I have experience working with people from different cultural backgrounds, non-dancers as well as elderly and disabled people.

In 2000, after being away from the world of dance for 10 years, Elizabeth Damour was fortunate to train with Kim Manri in Osaka and then after with Japanese butoh masters, Atsushi Takenouchi, Katsura Kan…

Since then, she has performed solo and collective pieces in Europe, Brazil, Morocco and Japan.

Her inspiration comes from narratives about humanity issues. Her practice is concerned with the search of a lost body, a body almost human, that resonates with Russian, Japanese and Arabic poetry. She develops her work through residencies in Japan and in Tbilisi (Georgia).

Residing in Paris, she is a Certified Psychosomatics Therapist, Coach, Dance and Art-Therapist and a regular lecturer, member of the CIPSR, the BAAT and the Squiggle in London.

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