BMC und CI Intensive

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Organic Interaction From the Fluids into Gravity Body Mind Centering® und Contact Improvisation Intensive with Angela-Mara Florant and Jennie Zimmermann Dates: 9-15. Nov 2026 Place: SerVivo, Palmela, Portugal (40min from Lisbon) Once we are born, we sense the pull of gravity. We invite you to explore and play with coordination, movement vocabulary and relation. In this intensive we will engage with movement patterns, the base for movement, and develop from there soft ways into Contact Improvisation techniques. Sensing a deep center connection, easy weight shifts into take off and leaving the ground. In the womb, swimming in the fluids, movement is already happening: as vibration, attraction and repulsion, as sponging, as pulsation. When the transformations into shapes and patterns begin, we are forming a midline, a front and backbody, a center and a periphery – a complex system that enables us to move, sense, react, take in and let go. Once we are born and sense the pull of gravity, there is a lot to learn about coordination of all the parts of the body. Diverse needs appear, emotions and possibilities call us into action. As babies we explore movement patterns, each one being the base for the next. As adults we can revisit these inherent patters for the joy of it or to embody missing links and expand our variety of movement. For one week we will dive into BMC material through movement exploration and hands-on touch and enter from there curious ways into Contact Improvisation. We will meet, dance and live together in SerVivo, a community project and event centre in the Arrábida Nature Parc, 40 minutes from Lisbon. Price incl. accommodation and meals: Organic Interaction Intensive (monday-sunday) Early Bird until 1.09.2026 sliding scale 820-520€ Normal Price sliding scale 820-590€ Weekend Price (friday-sunday) Early Bird 370-230€ Normal Price 370-270€