Adriana Chiruta
11 theatre and dance games for parents and children
an ART not trauma training based on TECHNIQUES TO GET OUT OF THE NEEDLE FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE THEY ARE BUTTERFLIES
"Using art to gently aim at reducing tension and suffering in us and around us, Adriana Chiruta invites you into a dance with the finest, untraumatized and non-traumatic possibilities of your own future; in a ritual of the sensitive, in a practice of nonaggression and respect for our fragility and that of everything around us."
Sequances from a workshop Techniques to get out of the needle for those who believe they are butterflies presented at Kunsthalle Bega for architects, psychologists, artists, teachers and students
The idea of the Techniques... both as a workshop and as a contemporary artwork, came to me in the hypnagogic state, before entering sleep and dream. Maybe because what I exhibited in gallery or museum spaces (Kunsthalle Bega and MNAC) is actually just a pretext, a layer for planting my favorite dream:
to transform my audience into a work of art, to use art as a tool to overcome our sufferings and to transform ourselves and the societies we live in into less traumatized or traumatic versions.
The workshop I propose now in the formula of online sessions invites you to a training with 11 techniques of release from the blockages of trauma automatisms and from the roles of victim and / or aggressor. These techniques are built on some secrets of oriental and western theater / dance that have awakened my admiration over time and which I had the chance to learn from several masters of the international stage.
It is a complex workout but also simple, relaxing and often funny, a kind of game and generator of smiles that can lead to the practical realization of this dream:
to transform ourselves into works of art, to make our emotional, bodily and mental habits more flexible in order to find ourselves in all our strength, immensity and splendor.
What are we going to do?
We will basically work with some simple ingredients of our daily lives that we usually ignore: breathing, imagination, vibration of sounds and their bodily effect, posture and how seemingly trivial elements of our usual postures determine our roles and some life scenarios in which we sometimes do not want to play.
To change them to more desirable roles and scenarios, we will deal with:
* Awareness of mental and emotional scenarios induced by even the smallest strains in the body, for example of the psoas muscle or cervical area or tongue or eyes, and relaxing them through a few trauma-sensitive techniques.
* Extended body, palpable energy of imagination and techniques to cease sabotaging dialogue with what in improvisation is called "inner critic" = "you can't, you are not as you should be, give up"
* The rhythmicity and dynamic geometry of emotions and the possibility to alternate, by unlocking and flexibility, a wide range of emotions (ie movement, emotions being primarily impulses of movement - emoves, emotus)
* The basic rhythm of harmonious growth in nature through cooperation with ourselves and others, which the Japanese call Jo Ha Kyu
* Shoshin (or the mental state of zero point and spontaneity in improvisation: "on the edge of the breath, looking"), the hara energy center and the neutral body, freed from the strains of past suffering so that it can breathe and dance its present.
Why?
To fortify our talent to move in the spectacle of our own lives with less exhaustion, with more inventiveness and the power to put our own dreams into practice beyond the obstacles around us.
To relate as nourishingly as possible to ourselves, our valid needs and each other, and gracefully step out of relationships and power games that are toxic to us and our real potential.
Through some exercises and techniques of action and concentration through relaxation, we will understand that we are much more present and stronger when we free our body and mind from unnecessary fears and tensions and that we do not need to strain unnecessarily and risk states of exhaustion and anxiety to achieve extraordinary things.
We will travel fascinatingly through the EXTENDED BODY / BODY OF IMAGINATION so that our dance with reality will be as interesting and enjoyable as possible in the future.
We will explore ourselves beyond the social masks to which we are often reduced, we will incorporate the rules of correct and harmonious relationships with ourselves, so that dissociation from our own emotions, body and valid needs, or situations in which we remain trapped and powerless in a narrow and often harmful range of emotions, will happen in the future as rarely and to a lesser extent as possible.
For whom?
This training is for adults interested in getting out of the automatisms and blockages of the body, trauma and toxic situations, even more so if they are parents or want to become parents.