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December – January, 2023
Berlin
Event is over
Futuring 2023
Anticipanting your year through different senses
Cover image: Benedetta Bonichi
With somatic, sensory, and performative practices we are clearing our own perception to envision (ensense) the year 2023 and invite you with us.
What exactly are we going to do?
- Speak
- Sing
- Move
- Explore
- Be a querent and an oracle
- Whatever else might come up in your personal journey
This overnight immersive experience will last 15 hours and will consist of somatic, performative and gently experimental practices related to or inspired by the possibility of clairvoyance.
Our aim is to take you through a sensory ritual to help you clear your senses from the noise of the everyday, of the tension of New Year’s expectations, of the weight of intention setting and the perceived struggle of letting go.
We want to gently and easefully step into the New Year with clarity, as an empty vessel. For this, we will be tuning in to the perceptions of the body in a way which tells a story. Inspired by the idea that our bodies are carriers of the future as well as the past, we will use the tools of movement, breath, touch, and imagination to tap into a future which might want to manifest from within us.
Warning: this is not a therapy workshop.
If you have any questions left – read our FAQ.
- 1 nightDecember, 31 – January, 1
19:30–09:00 - 10 participantsWe want this experience to be a personal one
- 7 sensesSomatic, sensory, and performative practices
- Sliding scaleEconomic 30 euro
Regular 50 euro
Supporter 70 euro
Facilitators
Vera Shchelkina
Dance artist and choreographer
Dance artist, somatic practitioner, student of the Somatische Akademie, teacher of contemporary dance, movement, and performance for professionals, amateur and inclusive projects, curator of the inclusive project “Normal Dances”.
Main Art Works: CO-TOUCH, My(Ex)Body, Imposter Lab, Discomfort Lab, SMRTъ
Read more about Vera.
Main Art Works: CO-TOUCH, My(Ex)Body, Imposter Lab, Discomfort Lab, SMRTъ
Read more about Vera.
Maria Vitanova
Performance artist and somatic practitioner
Emerging performance artist and somatic practitioner, whose research centers around embodiment practices and personal development. BA in Theater Studies and Philosophy, student of the Somatic Academy in Berlin and a sex and relationship counselor in training. She specializes in experimental workshop formats surrounding the topic of (self-)intimacy such as A Workshop on Closeness, Stories of the Body and Sich Sammeln.
Elena Korchagina
A psychologist, specialist on Sensory Integration and Neuroscience MA student. She is using techniques from Embodiment, Psychodrama and Playback Theatre, exploring how different kind of movement and sensations are working from neuroscientific perspective.
PROGRAM
Plan
Time
Arrival. Arriving and first meeting in the circle
19:30–20:00
Oracle. A vision. An offering. What do you see?
20:00–20:30
Clairtangency. Exploring our tactile sense as a means of positioning ourselves in the world
20:30–21:00
Clairvoyance. Seeing through the now into the vision of your future
23:00–23:30
Futuring. A simple practice of lightness and clarity
23:30–00:30
Jamming into the future. From this point in the future you are welcome to stay or leave
00:30–03:30
Communal sleep. For the ones who stay
03:30–08:30
Dissolving. Leaving the space
08:30–09:00
Location
Remise NeuKölln, Ringbahnstrasse 22, 12051 Berlin
FAQ
- comfortable clothes for a night and a day temperature
- blankets, cushions, journals - anything you need to feel comfortable throughout the night (optional)
- optional snacks and drinks (there will be some provided)
- your curiosity and openness
It might be or it might not be. This practice is a research performative practice, our aim is not to get better, but to go for your own journey into the future.
You can. We have a planned program until midnight, afterwards you are free to stay for a jam and communal sleep or go your own way.
We are preparing food dinner, and we are sure there will be some left for breakfast, but you can bring something of your choice as well.
If you didn't find the information you need – don't hesitate asking the organisator via email: imitator@gmail.com.