The workshop “Listening bodies” focuses on cultivating listening as a physical, sensory, and kinetic practice. It begins each time with a cycle of active physical listening and a frenzied, exhilarating Sunday dance.

Through the tools of contemporary dance and improvisation, it explores the relationship of the body to time, music, and silence, as well as the ways in which listening activates movement and composition. Through structured and open exercises, Rudolf Laban’s approaches to the use of time and music in the creation of movement are studied. Particular emphasis is placed on the relationship between the body and time, rhythm, and the dynamics of movement, both in conditions of musical accompaniment and silence, activating listening as a fundamental physical and kinetic practice. During the workshop, silence is approached as an active and creative soundscape, in which movement emerges as a form of presence and identity.

At the end of each meeting, the circle is formed again- a space for sharing, tea (literally), and sympathy, where the experience settles and is collectively transformed.

Methodology:
The research evolves from individual experience (solo) to duets and collective composition (group), through structured and open improvisations. Music and silence function as equal fields of composition and movement. At the same time, freedom of expression is cultivated through musical listening brought by the group that will be created, exploring the experiential and personal relationship of the body with sound.

Where: Technourgeio, Psaron 63 Athens
When: Sundays 11, 18, 25/1/26, 17.30-20.30
Cost: 90€ for 3 Sundays/ 85€ for unemployed, students, 65+, Kinitiras’ active members

It is possible to attend 1 or 2 meetings.

Reserve your place at info@kinitiras.com or at +30 69 40 576461 every Tuesday and Friday 11.00-13.00 and Thursday 18.00-20.00.

Antigone Gyra created the company KINITIRAS dance spectacle in 1996 with which she has choreographed dozens of works to date, with grants from the Ministry of Culture and other institutions or independently, which have been presented in Greece and abroad. From 2008 to 2019 she coordinated the first residency centre for performing arts in Greece, which offered on the cultural map of Athens research events, artists’ exchanges and artistic hospitality (www.kinitiras.com). With Kinitiras she brings dance and physical theatre to primary and secondary education while organizing Erasmus+ youth exchange programs with the aim of social awareness (lgbtq+, refugees, hate speech etc.). In the last two years, she carried out two choreographic researches (Femininity in transition, Contemporary Dance and Third Age) with the support of foreign bodies and the Ministry of Culture. She has collaborated with important directors and groups at the National Theatre and the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. She teaches movement and choreography in vocational schools.