Tanzfabrik
Berlin
School
School

02.01.2025—05.01.2025

We_You_I

Workshop
with Ka Rustler
Venue:
Kreuzberg 3
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
Dates:
Info:
Level: open
in English/ German
Price: 210€/180€* 
 *Early bird until 12.12.2024

Description

In this workshop I invite you to immerse yourself in a deeply inspiring movement experience exploring the fascinating interplay between our body's own rhythms with movement and dance. Just as neurotransmitters like dopamine orchestrate a complex symphony within our brains, our bodies respond to a cascade of signals and messengers that influence our energy levels, our emotional and physical responses. Enquiring into these hormones, which resemble a living network, we witness them navigating our endocrine pathways, transitioning through organs and cells in various states—from crystalline clarity to fluid adaptability—balancing receptivity with expressive dynamism. We will explore how these dynamics influence our movement choices and skills, enhancing our expressive range and emotional depth. We engage and move into a rich tapestry of facilitated exercises, playful explorations, guided rituals and scores, insightful observations and meaningful exchanges. Participants will experience this work through gentle and genuine connection with others, balanced thoughtfully with solo time for introspection and reflection. This exploration will illuminate the potential for change, regeneration, and transformation within and around us.
Biographies

Ka Rustler

Ka Rustler has been researching and analyzing somatic practices and their embodiment in movement, choreography and therapy for over 35 years. She is a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner and Teacher, co-chairwoman of the BMCAssociation and the Glia Association, second-generation pioneer of Contact Improvisation, member of the early collective Tanzfabrik Berlin and co-founder of the Authentic Movement Research Group Unwinding the Body. As a co-author of multifaceted productions, she performs with numerous artists and creates social and ecological contexts that are situated within a feminist understanding of embodied subjectivity. Ka teaches internationally, designs training curricula at private and state institutions and in her work combines methods and systems whose application and relevance interface performance, neuroscience and somatics in natural and urban environments. Living next to the forest, neighboring a farrowing brook, she is married, mother of two children, stewarding a permaculture garden with newts, violet carpenter bees as well as edible treasures and (potent smoothie) weeds.