Through their approaches to contact improvisation, but also texts, words, images, poetry, Céline and Matthieu invite you to areas of games and experiments that will promote :

  - self-presence, “body-heart-spirit” in the world,

  - shared attention nourished by neuro-scientific, philosophical and meditative approaches,

  - the sharing or exchange of axes, the circulation of flows supported by somatic explorations,

  - guidance by the senses and sensations, embodied anatomy (embodyment).

 

Presence

 

Presence you say!

Who says ?

Presence for me, for us, for each other.

Present to the presence, to the future!

So many directions pointing to the same momentum to infinity.

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Hubert Godard says that “to touch is to fall”. We would therefore have no other choice, to touch and - be touched in return - than to fall into the world. Let's try to put it another way... There is only this reversibility, because we fall into it and we are carried towards it. Touch-touch, carry-fall. We can only be present in the world (make a world) by accepting to be deeply moved.

“It is thanks to the emergence of shared presence in the act of reciprocal relationship that we reach the ultimate.” D Bois. We discover ourselves through movement and within the relationships we build.

 

Presence then!

Presence at the open!

 

Impossible not to be touched (moved) to know?

Impossible to be outside to know? Impossible not to be concerned to feel?  Could this be a “proximity distance” ?

“It is not a question of distancing oneself from things in order to be able to grasp them but, on the contrary, of trying to relate to them” (Midal, 2017)

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The question of letting oneself be completely touched (to touch) is at the heart of our practices (Contact Improvisation, Alexander Technique, Perceptual Pedagogy). This presence, however, is not confusion; on the contrary, it is about assuming the distance of the other*. So where should we place the gap, the withdrawal necessary for presence? There must be a space for presence, a withdrawal, an open space from which the experience unfolds? But what withdrawal are we talking about? And where does it take place?

“And the gap, this pre-movement, it is very vain to look for it in the body, in the brain. Out, out, out. Between. Between worlds. » Carla Bottigglieri ​

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The proposals will be informed by the Alexander Technique® and Perceptive Pedagogy®. ​

 

*Being close is not touching: the greatest proximity is to assume the distance of the other. Jean Oury