Join us for a weekend immersion where we explore the moving body’s relationship to space, others, and itself. Through somatic investigation and improvisation, we will tune our senses to the environment and to the moment, building a shared language of movement and attention. We will dive into the interplay between weight, support, balance, and expansion — expanding not only through space but also through ways of sensing and imagining.
Guided by principles from Tuning Scores, we will move between observation and action, cultivating the art of responding, witnessing, and composing in real time. The Alexander Technique will support us in unraveling habitual patterns of tension, allowing for a freer, more organic unfolding of movement and presence. Contact Improvisation will ground us in the physical dialogues of shared weight, gravity, and momentum — dancing between listening and action, falling and flying.
Tools we will draw from:
– Alexander Technique – a method of psychophysical re-education that invites awareness into unconscious habits, freeing the body’s natural reflexes and fostering more easeful, embodied responses.
– Tuning Scores – a set of compositional tools that nurture a fluid conversation between mover and observer, inviting attunement to space, group dynamics, and spontaneous composition.
– Contact Improvisation – a dance practice based on the physical dialogue between two or more bodies in contact, playing with weight, gravity, momentum, and trust.
This workshop is open to movers of all bodies, all identities and all levels. Dancers, actors, performers, musicians, circus artists, visual artists, somatic practitioners, and anyone curious about movement are welcomed!
Facilitator: Paula Zacharías
Paula Zacharías is a teacher and researcher in dance, somatic practices, and visual arts from Argentina. She is a certified Alexander Technique teacher and holds a B.A. in Communication Sciences (UBA). Her movement practice spans contemporary dance, Butoh, and Contact Improvisation. She teaches the Alexander Technique applied to dance, with a focus on Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores methodology. Her research in real-time improvisation bridges her work in movement and audiovisual arts, exploring new forms of scenic creation and the interaction between body, vision, and technology. She is part of the international group Tunezooming, led by Carmen Pereiro, where she deepens her study with influential figures such as Lisa Nelson, Karen Nelson, and Daniel Lepkoff, among others. She has received grants and scholarships from Prodanza, FNA, Mecenazgo, Fondo Metropolitano, and Fondo Municipal de Vicente López to support various creative and educational projects and has organized and participated in national and international festivals and residencies, and taught at events such as En Práctica (Chile), SOMA (Argentina), Contact Festival Freiburg, ImPulsTanz Vienna, Contact Italy, SP Contact Impro, DF Improvisa, San Pancho CI Fest, Transformando pela Práctica, and Festín BA, among others. She regularly facilitates classes and organizes jams in Buenos Aires and other cities.
When?
June 7-8th
Saturday 11am – 2pm + 4pm – 6pm + JAM 7pm-22pm
Sunday 11am – 14pm + 3.30pm – 5.30pm
Location
Dom Kultury Praga, Dąbrowszczaków 2, 03-474 Warszawa
Price
We offer a sliding scale
Early bird until 18th May: 400 – 480 PLN
Regular price: 490 – 590 PLN
Only JAM: 20 – 40 PLN
Spots are limited — please register in advance.
Registration and inquiries: somatopeja@gmail.com (maja miśta)
The workshop will be held in English. If you need translation into Polish, please let me know!