WORKSHOP | BODY TERRAIN: Soft-Acrobatics • Balance • Organic Strength (taught by Tiago Martins)

BODY TERRAIN a movement-workshop taught by Tiago Martins, Co-Founder of Movement Lisboa and Porto (Portugal)

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This workshop explores the body as a terrain for complexity, adaptation and transformation.

Through situations of chaos, uncertainty and ever-changing challenges, we will investigate how the body perceives, responds and reorganizes itself. The practice moves through the close relationships between seeing and doing, doing and feeling, feeling and being — using questions, physical puzzles and open-ended tasks as tools for exploration.

Working with balance, partnering, soft acrobatics, organic strength and improvisation, we will create environments that ask for immediate responses rather than predefined solutions. Instead of reproducing fixed forms, the body is invited to listen, adapt, negotiate and discover new possibilities in real time.

The aim is not simply to develop more skills, but to cultivate a body that becomes increasingly capable, perceptive and intelligent in the way it moves — and, above all, more human.

All levels, all bodies and all movement backgrounds are welcome — no specific experience or skill level is required. Curiosity and a willingness to explore are qualities we especially welcome.

About the Teacher:

Early on, Tiago immersed himself in the study of fine arts, dance, theatre, gymnastics and sports science. Through a need to follow the body in several paths, he sculpted his professional path first as a painter, a high competitor gymnast, a circus performer and later as a dancer and during this multi development he started studying the most varied languages dedicated to Movement – the body in its totality – such as Ido Portal, Fighting Monkey (Linda Kapetanea & Jozef Frucek), Tom Weklser, W. Wanderkeybus, D. Zambrano, Alexander Vantournhout, Peter Jasko, Olga Roriz, Beatriz Batarda, Gaga method, Butoh, Somatics, Emotional Anatomy among many others. He studies and observe the body as a vehicle for functionality, intellect, and artistic expression, while always feeling like a beginner student. In addition to sharing this methodology, he organizes several international events within Movement Culture, and in 2016 became the co-founder of the first Movement school in Portugal, Movement Lisboa (teaching and directing while curating the educational program). More recently, an extension of the school opened in the north of the country - Movement Porto.