Lydia Xourafi
Mind Body LAB. - Choreosomatic Training
Choreosomatic Training is a practice based movement methodology that brings together somatic awareness, movement research, physical theatre, improvisation and choreographic composition. It approaches the body not simply as an instrument for executing movement, but as a sensing, relational and creative field through which movement, perception, memory and meaning can emerge.
The practice begins with embodied attention and sensory exploration. Different sensory stimuli such as objects, materials, sounds, melodies, colours, textures and qualities of light become points of departure for movement research. We also work with memories of sensory experiences, exploring what they activate in the body and how sensations, images and associations can become movement material. Participants investigate which physicalities and movement qualities emerge, where they lead the body and how they can be organised into individual movement scores.
Through somatic practices, guided improvisation and physical theatre techniques, the body gradually moves from release and receptivity towards dynamic awareness and intentional movement. Particular attention is given to somatosensory flow, attunement, kinetic flexibility and the fluidity of transitions between states of rest, sensing and dynamic activation. Movement is approached as an ongoing process of listenin
Fluid Flow Movement: Exploring Tentacularity - Seminar
A movement practice and composition seminar focusing on bodily flow and kinetic fluidity. The participants are invited to cultivate a dialogue between sensory stimuli, imagination and the moving body. We will explore the concept of tentancularity and decentralized movement. This research was a starting point for the interdisciplinary research project "Bodies of Chthulucene" and the performance "The sky has not fallen, yet", which was presented at the Television Control Center in February 2023 and is a work in progress.
The aim of the seminar is the exploration of new ways of physical perception and the connection of movement and thought as well as the development of a new personal and experiential kinesiology. Physical/motor flow is a creative way to cultivate the relationship with our body, to accept it without having to change it and to explore new movement patterns that improve our physical experience in everyday life. Furthermore, we aim to develop kinetic fluidity by exploring forms inspired by the theory of tentacularity (Donna Haraway) through multiple improvisational and creative tasks.
The structure of each meeting consists of physical warm-up, body awareness, improvisation and composition exercises. The techniques that will be used include floorwork & matwork exercises (flexibility, animal movement) & bodily mindfulness, movement improvisation and somatic narrative reflection.
This seminar is an action of the non-profit organisation "semion ψ - social creative actions”.
Contact me for more info: selfasstories@gmail.com, semion.psi@gmail.com