Many people think they do not know how to move their bodies harmoniously in the presence of music. If you cultivate these kinds of beliefs, then the practice of Conscious Dance is for you! In fact, it is often what we think is not in our chords that holds the highest transformative potential.

It is not about being able to dance well or badly, or according to stereotypes, but about awakening the body’s natural aptitude to seek pleasure in spontaneous movement. Why does a child move spontaneously when s/he hears music? Dance is the natural way human beings express their emotions. Through Conscious Dance our emotions and feelings, such as joy, well-being, sadness, discomfort... can be observed and transformed into new possibilities.

Like Life, dance also moves in that middle ground between order and disorder, “at the frontier of chaos,” there where complexity manifests itself. Life, we might say, is a dance that allows us to understand and actualize our evolutionary potential, our ability to create structural richness, beauty, complexity...

Thus, a body rediscovering its natural potential for movement can awaken awe in the dancer, and each time this happens pleasure is generated; pleasure allows us to tap into a renewed energy, leading us to a new balance, a new understanding. We could then say that by dancing we fill those symbolic voids that the musical track evokes and suggests to us, there where the dimension of potentiality is hidden.

Dance thus becomes a metaphor for All Life, its evolution, and an alchemical laboratory of our transformations. Conscious Dance opens to listening to one’s own body language, accompanied by music and protected by the welcoming and cared-for (both physically and energetically) space of the practice and the group that dances with us. We dance individually, but in the context of a group of people humbly sharing their discoveries and creations, without judgment, offering mutual support.

This appointment, with the body’s natural desire to (re)find its own Dance, deepens and enriches with each meeting, offering an interesting tool for personal inner investigation.

Typically, the practice is divided into three moments. Before each dance, we meet for a brief moment around tea, where pointers for the practice are offered. These are only indicative pointers, never impositional; the dancer always remains free to move and explore according to his or her own feeling, in full autonomy.

The second moment is that of the actual dance. The free movement, to which the body gradually opens up, then follows different waves of intensity, inspired by the choice of music, the evoked theme, an inner need...

At the conclusion, the movement slows down to stillness, allowing us to observe how much the experience of the body has “moved” in us. In other words, the third moment is of integration and possible processing, which may take place in different ways. For example, in silence, we can trace on our “travel notebook” what has emerged, translating it into a few concise words, or into a drawing, possibly sharing it with the group, or, in the form of verbal sharing, welcoming everyone’s desire either to communicate or to remain alone to listen.

Language: The universal one of music.

Where: In the Sala Mammut, in the Area 302 spaces, in via Cadepiano 18, Barbengo.

When: Weekly meetings, Thursdays from 19:00 to 20:30.

Contribution: 225 fr for a cycle of 10 consecutive meetings, or 100 fr for a cycle of 4 consecutive meetings. For those who do not follow regularly, you can contribute 30 fr for single practices.

Clothing: Comfortable clothing, suitable for body practices. It is possible to change clothes on the spot but not to shower. Always provide for the possibility of adding or removing a layer.