SP26 Shifting Perspectives: The Joy of the Unknown with Maciej Sado

Shifting Perspectives: The Joy of the Unknown with Maciej Sado

10.08.–14.08.26, 18:15 – 19:45 

Open Level

The Summer Intensive: Movement Research and Improvisation is an extension of the well-established format developed at Marameo during the Tuesday evening sessions.

This intensive offers an opportunity to deepen the exploration of movement by investigating how to access and generate it from within, how to observe the body in motion, and how to cultivate pleasure in dancing while discovering new approaches to it. The workshop is open to participants of all levels and is designed to build progressively over the course of the week.

It draws on diverse somatic approaches and movement research techniques acquired along the way (BMC, Body Weather, Nothing, Butoh, Alexander Technique, etc.), as well as on collective questioning, shared tools, and the embodied knowledge already present within the bodies of the participants.

Throughout the process, we will engage closely with patterns (a well-known obsession of mine) that emerge within the space and the body—such as relationships to space, music, gaze, time, objects, and composition. These patterns will be examined both through practice and through observation of others, allowing for multiple perspectives on movement and creating the possibility for them to shift, morph, translate, and embrace change.

Gradually departing from what is “known” into the sometimes uncomfortable but far more fruitful space of “not knowing,” we will work with structured improvisational scores that challenge and expand our understanding of what dance can be, and what a dancing body might become.