Sensation Through Dance

Coming Up

Sensation Through Dance Workshop in Graz

• 11.12., 15:00 -- 18:00
• Wilder Mann, Jakoministr. 3-5, Graz
• 20 Euro per Person
• Investigate and make use of basic spinal moves in walking and Ballroom dancing
• Explore energetic connections to dance partners

Casino Mond, "Von Bewegungsbewusstsein zu musikalischem Paartanz"

• 05.12., 18:00, Casino Mond, near Spielfeld.
• The focus will be on awareness of movement and interaction with partner and music in ballroom dancing.
• The one hour workshop is free of charge.

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Past Happenings

Casino Mond, "Von Bewegungsbewusstsein zu musikalischem Paartanz"

• 28.11., 18:00, Casino Mond, near Spielfeld.
• The focus will be on awareness of movement and interaction with partner and music in ballroom dancing.
• The one hour workshop is free of charge.

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Sensation Through Dance Workshop in Graz

• 27.11., 15:00 -- 18:00
• Wilder Mann, Jakoministr. 3-5
• 20 Euro per Person
• Investigate and make use of Side Bend of Spine
• Explore rhythmical and melodical structures in music

Sensational Dancing -- Eine Tanz-Entdeckungsreise für Körper und Seele Download Flyer

• 05.09., 16:00 -- 21:00
• Work Shop at Tanzschule Kern-Theissl, Graz
• Increase awareness of yourself as well as your partner
• Learn to interact with music and your partner

Casino Mond, "Von Bewegungsbewusstsein zu musikalischem Paartanz"

• 08.08., 18:00, Casino Mond, near Spielfeld.
• The focus will be on awareness of movement and interaction with partner and music in ballroom dancing.
• The one hour workshop is free of charge.

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Enjoy Dance!  (Dance Retreat) Download Flyer

• 17./18.07., Villa Pannonica, Wolfsthal, near Vienna
• Enjoy a full weekend of Dance
• Increase awareness of yourself as well as your partner
• Learn to interact with music and your partner

"Make Sense! -- Ball Room Sense!"     Download Flyer

• 26.06., 15--18, Yoga & Mehr, Radetzkystr. 5/1, Graz
• Move with the ease and elegancy of a ball in a room
• Investigate the Idea of Free Balance
• Use different senses to orientate and organize movement

Casino Mond, "Von Bewegungsbewusstsein zu musikalischem Paartanz"

• 13.06., 18:00, Casino Mond, near Spielfeld.
• The focus will be on awareness of movement and interaction with partner and music in ballroom dancing.
• The one hour workshop is free of charge.

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"Embody Your Energetic Presence!"      Download Flyer

• 15.05., 15:00, Yoga & Mehr, Graz
• Idea: A person consists of a physical body as well as a body of "energetic presence".
• How to indentify "energetic" boundaries?
• How to allow to set poles such that energy flows naturally?
• Any interaction with natural flows will probably be not beneficial.

Furthermore, there have been several past happenings, mainly at dieTanzschule, Dr. Höllbacher.

Objectives

Sensation Through Dance classes present an embodiment of the free and good, the playful, but attentive treatment of oneself and one's partner. They provide possibilities to wonder about the wonder of nature and living in respect for oneself and others.

Possible outcomes for dancing and others parts of life:

• More enjoyment and awareness while dancing
• Increased capability of sensing yourself
• Broadend understanding of movement
• Experience of connection of motion and emotion
• Experience conctructive partner contact
• Experience rules leading to freedom

Typical Topics

• Body Rotations
• Moving Breath -- Breath Movement
• The joint as nothing in between of something
• Experiencing length and elegancy
• From motion to e-motion and vice versa
• Energetic views of music
• Rhythm as a projection of periodic movements
• Own choreographical experiments

The Importance of Being Puzzled

One of the main issues of Sensation Thorugh Dance is raising questions rather than providing answers. Questions bear a chance to nourish reflexion of the doing whatsoever. Of course, some ideas of answers will be provided (and tried), but most important remains the questioning and the seeking for answers itself.
The procedure may be described as a "dance journey" which does not lead to remote jungle-type places but simply to oneself -- as a person and resultingly as a couple. To give an impression of the "flavour", here are some exemplary questions which may be risen "on the way":

• What is Awareness?
• Do I do what I think I do?
• What are basic movements of our body?
• How to create productive contact between two people?
• How to make a partner enjoy?
• What is music interpretation?
• How to be free? -- Even though we live in a society..
• Do I care what people think about me?
• How to have a Ballroom hold without holding your body or breath?
• How to allow a movement, rather than making it?
• What is balance?
• How to be energy efficient?
• Can I practice stance while standing?
• What makes a dance a performance?

Background

Originally the seminar series was layed out as a multi-disciplinary approach to ballroom dancing. In this regard, MarkusM sought to consolidate essences of various disciplines in order to blend them together to a new view of ballroom dancing. These disciplines include:

• Competitive Ballroom Dancing
• Feldenkrais
• Contact Improvisation
• Psychological aspects of touch
• Basic concepts of dance theatre
• Contemporary dance
• Classical Singing

On the other hand, the focus has become somewhat more broad, more of dancing, movement and llife in general. Yet basic principles remain unchanged:

• Awareness -- for yourself, music, partner
• Need of differences in order to sense
• Interaction of partners and with music