4th Dance & Martial Arts Festival
 

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Facilitated by – Vangelis Legakis 梵天與

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Embodied Unity - Video Link HERE

Flying Low, Contact Improvisation, Qi Gong & Kundalini yoga

and 5 Elements Improvisation Dance 

 

Flying Low is a physical and dynamic technique that was developed by David Zambrano. Flying Low creates diverse dynamic relationships between the dancers and the environment with special focus on floor work. By using one’s weight, gravity and the energy from the environment, there is a momentum created that allows the dancer to flow freely on the floor and in space. Through the basic principles of the technique that of gathering, sending and passing through, the dancers create concrete Inter-relationships with the floor, the whole room and beyond, so as to ultimately dance freely and instinctively all together as one living entity.

 

Contact Improvisation & Improvisation in Performance

 

Vangelis will focus the workshop on Contact Improvisation and free Improvisation fusing it with energy work from Reiki, Tai Chi, Chi Gong and Kundalini Yoga. He will teach coordination and contact improvisationmethodologies to facilitate body awareness and articulation and he willalso teach diverse Forsythe’s Improvisation Techniques which will conjoinand fine-tune the physical with the mental bodies. Vangelis has also beenexploring for many years body-mind-spirit connection throughimprovisation and experiential anatomy, Tai Chi, Chi Gong and Budoh.Martial Arts principles and also Breathing exercises will play a crucial roleso as to embody movement, enhance consciousness and broadenperspective and possibilities whilst dancing. Vangelis will teach contactimprovisation exercises such us lifting, weight distribution, free falling,floor-work, balancing and counter-balancing, sensing and feeling the selfand the group. The focus and the blending of all this techniques andprinciples will be for performing and enhancing performance with apartner or as a group. Also in this class we will have the chance to fuse dance with martial arts!!

 

Vangelis will be teaching Chi Gong and Kundalini Yoga that will enhance and develop awareness, energy flow, internal and external sensation to the body, as well as sublimation of energies to manifest movement. Vangelis has been practicing martial arts for many years; hewas trained in Kung Fu, Taekwondo, Hapkido, Harang Do and To Shin Do.He is now an instructor of Chi Gong credited by Grand Master Mantak Chia at Tao Garden where also he was taught Tai Chi by Professor of Nothingness. He will teach Chi Gong Microcosmic Orbit, Inner Smile, 6 Healing Sounds, 5 Elements and many other practices on energy work to enhance body awareness, raise consciousness and integrate the body-mind-spirit. Kundaling yoga will assist in opening the heart chakra to allow energy flow from lower parts of the body to higher more enlightening with finer and lighter frequencies. There will be also a coherent introduction in the philosophy of Kundalini Yoga and the purposes for practicing.

 

5 Elements Improvisation Dance

 

In this unique workshop, Vangelis is fusing Taoist meditation Alchemy and5 Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Water and Metal) with dance andimprovisation. He will be teaching simple theory on the meridians, 3 TanTiens and Yin and Yang balance.Through simple exercises that are accessible to all, the dance will appearduring the process of the workshop instead of having a technical approachon dance. Participants with or without much experience are welcome tojoin and enjoy dancing effortlessly. This workshop will allow stress relief,tension release, and self awareness in the body, mind and spirit.The last day we will open the space to a free Contact Improvisationsession after having a review of all the process and exercises.

 

 

Vangelis（梵天與）所教授的气功，五行舞蹈，阴阳平衡将提升和发展我们的觉知，能量流动，身体内在和外在感知的能力。同时利用这种能力的觉知，流动和引导进行舞蹈即兴。五行包括金，木，水，火，土并且为我们的身体和心灵带来和谐与平衡。梵天与研习武术多年，并且练习过功夫、跆拳道、合气道、Harang Do 和To Shin Do。他是桃园Mantak Chia大师（亦是Wei Tzu大师的导师）学生并被授予气功教学资格。他亦将教授Chi Gong Microcosmic Orbit、inner smile 、6 healing sounds、 五行和其他很多种能量练习，以此来增强身体的觉知，提高意识，整合身心灵。五行和阴阳平衡将提升我们身体的内在感觉，从而让我们更好的觉知内在世界，更好的反思和表达我们的情感。我们将寻找到一个清晰的意图让我们更好的沟通，为我们的生活和舞蹈建立更加强大的关系。

 

接触即兴&即兴表演

梵天與将教授接触即兴和自由即兴，同时融入武术和气功。本课程将融合所有课程内容，以此寻找舞蹈和武术之间的和谐共存。接触即兴是一种简单的舞蹈语言，二人或这多人进行接触并寻找一种独特的平衡，和谐与交流。它像是两个身体融合为一个身体，或者说更多的身体完美的融合为一体，去寻找彼此意图和感觉的合一和深度了解。一些舞蹈艺术家，例如Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Nancy Stark Smith和一些舞者在美国首先创造了接触即兴。它是一种自由和表达的舞蹈形式。一切皆有可能，放下一些所谓的对“优美的动作”的预先判断和先入为主的观念。武术的原则和呼吸练习也将引发我们的动作，提升我们的意识并开阔我们的觉察能力，去寻找在舞蹈中的一切可能性。结合能量练习和武术，梵天与将他们融合进接触即兴中的托举，重量转化，使用地面，平衡与对抗平衡，感知和感受自身和集体。

本课程所关注的是将所有这些技术融合为一体，并帮助大家提升与搭档和集体之间表演默契。