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berlin, 2023
DECOLONIZING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT BODY
somatic movement research classes
Coloniality of knowledge is a concept of Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano. The concept critiques what proponents call the Eurocentric system of knowledge, education, and modes of thinking.

Coloniality of knowledge raises important epistemological concerns such as:

  • who creates

  • what knowledge

  • for what purpose

  • how this knowledge is (ir)relevant on practice

  • and how specific knowledges influence my body and my perception of it

Knowledge about the body has been developed since the body became a separate object of thinking. Different societies, cultures, and times have been attending to the body differently, and yet, by contemporary times we are more or less in the same paradigm of body. Or not?

We will use methods and invitations from somatic methods and movement research, as well as improvisational tasks and theoretical input and discussion.
Address
Where

Participation fee
15 drop-in
80 all classes
practitioner
Vera Shchelkina
    • somatic practitioner and movement educator (graduating from the Somatic Academy in Berlin);

    • dance practitioner and facilitator of various contemporary dance programs for all types of audiences;

    • dance artist and choreographer, who co-created many dance and performance pieces, such as: "CO-TOUCH", "The Imposture Lab", "SMRTъ", "Vibrant matter", "Unplanting the seeds of hatred" etc.

    Currently I began my master's in choreography at HZT (Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch").


program
class 1: ANATOM(IES)
What do I know about how my body is built, and if I had any actual chances to sense it directly?

Is there only one anatomy that I imagine in my body, or are there many versions? Who created this anatomy, what for, and when in time?

Can I really move from, say, the liver, and what exactly am I imagining?

Can my personal anatomy look like a forest, a picture dreamt by AI, and why does it need to look like something?
class 2:
ABOUT WHOLENESS (FASCIA)
more soon
class 3:
FUNCTION PRECEEDS FORM (EMBRYOLOGY)
more soon
class 4:
ON EMOTION (Theories of emotions)
more soon
class 5:
LANGUAGE (and what it does to me)
more soon
class 6:
ATTENTION (and what we know about it)
more soon
class 7:
E-COGNITION (EMBODIED, EMBEDDED, ENACTED, ECOLOGICAL)
more soon
class 8:
BODY POLITICS
more soon
€15 / €80
drop-in class / all 8 classes
studio
SAB