26.08.2025—29.08.2025
The Body The Player The Journey
Workshop
with Rafaela Sahyoun
with Rafaela Sahyoun
Venue:
Kreuzberg 4
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
Dates:
Info:
Level: with movement experience
in English
Price: 240/210€*
in English
Price: 240/210€*
Description
The Body The Player The Journey offers a pathway to modulate the dancing through mechanisms of perception under guided improvisation practices, charging a large spectrum of shape-shifting sensations within the ever-transformative decision-making processes. The work focuses on the body's mobility through an integrative lens—investigating how our sensorimotor network intrinsically interacts, responds, and resonates, creating a dynamic interplay structure. It involves accessing and expanding a repertoire of adaptive responses that connect with cognitive, sensorial, subjective, and imagistic layers—drawing on available resources that emerge from personal and collective bodily experiences.
Through frameworks such as improvisation, scores, and games, people will be exposed to and experience the following principles: sensitive and systemic mapping of the body, multidimensionality, gravity and body axis, distribution of tension and modulations of tone, fascial network, the folds of the body, the fabulous universe of spirals, asymmetry, and body pulsations with impact absorption.
The Body The Player The Journey sets the ground for the interplay of people—moving what pulses within and between each other—an invitation to co-create a vibrant space for potential, inspiration, exchange, and support.
Biographies
Rafaela Sahyoun
Rafaela Sahyoun is a dance artist based in São Paulo, Brazil. Her work shifts between performing, teaching & making. Since 2019 Rafaela has been a guest teacher and collaborator at Pera School of Performing Arts – GAU teaching the Bachelor's Degree in Dance as well as leading the auditions. Besides teaching, she has made two dance productions at the university: VAWM (20/21); Wheel of Radical Affection (2021). Since 2020 she teaches at the Post-Graduate Program Corpo: Dança, Teatro e Performance at Célia Helena Centro de Artes e Educação in São Paulo. Rafaela is a faculty member in the dance curriculum at ECO Teatral, a theater formation program in São Paulo. Since 2020 she has been a company member of Cia. Perversos Polimorfos (BR). She is featured in productions by Sara Shelton Mann (USA), Judith Sánches Ruíz (CU/DE), Renan Martins (DE/BR), Alessandro Sciarroni (IT), Morena Nascimento(BR), Clarice Lima (BR), Marco Torrice (IT/BE), Clair Lefevrè (FR/AT), Nigel Charnoch (GB), Willi Dorner (AT), and other people she admires. From 2015 till 2018 she was a company member of Jorge Garcia Dance Company in São Paulo. Rafaela graduated from SEAD - Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (Austria) in 2013 and graduated with the program Dance Studies at Trinity Laban (London) in 2010. www.rafasahyoun.com