The present body 1
Axis Syllabus© study group in the field of the contemporary
Milan
cyclical workshops
october 2024 - may 2025
The present body
Through theoretical and practical tools, we will encounter the body in its complexity, preserving physical structures in a functional and integrated manner, that is, in a mode inclined to fulfill the intentions that move the dance. The application of axis syllabus© information to movement significantly supports the realization of this intention through the biomechanical analysis and anatomy of movement; the same intention is also supported by the quality of perception and presence in relationship, which in this context attends principles that belong to the field of mindfulness-based cranio sacral biodynamics and somatics. We will see how these principles, when extrapolated from the therapeutic context and transposed to the movement field, help to reinforce a central, centered perceptual listening that nurtures the properties of ongoing relationships.
What does it mean presence in terms experiential?
I would like to share with you an investigation of the body that considers dance as an ever-living process of research, in intimate and changing dialogue between internal and external environment. A body that is present, made up of implicit and explicit relationships, moved by the desire to be there in a mode that is receptively active and receptively active.
The meetings are aimed at people with different degrees of experience inclined to encounter the body in terms of knowledge and research, interested in investigating the relationship between body and space, body and group, body to body. Aimed at dancers, actors, artists, and researchers in all fields who wish to nurture an investigation of the body in art and performance, enriching their somatic vocabulary and movement practice.
Program
I and II meeting
These first two meetings will create a context for dialogue and integration between biodynamic and biomechanical principles to nurture an inquiry into presence and relationship to space.
-Biodynamic soma experience:
What is biodynamics?
Matrix body and perception of space
-Axis Syllabus Study Group:
Anatomy and biomechanics of the spine, shoulders, and hips
Motor masses
Principles and applications for efficient movement
(The schedule of subsequent meetings will be published soon)
Yiskah Jessica Cestaro
Italian artist of Sicilian origin, born in Bologna, Italy; dancer, teacher, researcher in the field of movement and somatic languages; I am a certified practitioner in bio-natural disciplines, biodynamic craniosacral, biodynamic mindfulness and somatic. For the past two decades he has been teaching passionately as a way to remember what a body can. Yiskah likes to consider dance a space of power to be intentionally accessed, a world among worlds, to be inhabited in presence. Her research is expressed in performance, body therapies, and personal growth paths, and for the past decade has been transformed at the root because it is permeated by the intangible thread that weaves it together: mindfuness-based cranio sacral biodynamics. Today it is in the process toward certification in axis syllabus©, with which it nurtures its research by conveying the role AS can play in movement ethics and health.
For me, to dance is to celebrate being in body, a body born in and from relationship with another body, inherently seeking meaningful relationships.
The present body
Through theoretical and practical tools, we will encounter the body in its complexity, preserving physical structures in a functional and integrated manner, that is, in a mode inclined to fulfill the intentions that move the dance. The application of axis syllabus© information to movement significantly supports the realization of this intention through the biomechanical analysis and anatomy of movement; the same intention is also supported by the quality of perception and presence in relationship, which in this context attends principles that belong to the field of mindfulness-based cranio sacral biodynamics and somatics. We will see how these principles, when extrapolated from the therapeutic context and transposed to the movement field, help to reinforce a central, centered perceptual listening that nurtures the properties of ongoing relationships.
What does it mean presence in terms experiential?
I would like to share with you an investigation of the body that considers dance as an ever-living process of research, in intimate and changing dialogue between internal and external environment. A body that is present, made up of implicit and explicit relationships, moved by the desire to be there in a mode that is receptively active and receptively active.
The meetings are aimed at people with different degrees of experience inclined to encounter the body in terms of knowledge and research, interested in investigating the relationship between body and space, body and group, body to body. Aimed at dancers, actors, artists, and researchers in all fields who wish to nurture an investigation of the body in art and performance, enriching their somatic vocabulary and movement practice.
