The Ecological Body

Our aim is to bring about an awareness with the purpose of empowering ourselves through the joy of movement. As a corpus of practices we use a variety of elements ranging from Tai Chi, to Contact Improvisation, Tango and Physical theatre. Tai chi provides dynamic grounding and softness. Contact and Tango: the possibility to relate with others via music, touch and play. And Physical theatre proposals will provide possibilities of affirmative expression and creativity. To read and analyze our practice, we will bring together elements from Biomechanics, Ecology and Bioenergetics. From these perspectives we will ask ourselves how our movements affect our biology? What could be the consequences in short and long term forms of specific movements? We want to become movement gatherers so as to track the consequences of what we physically do in our muscles, bones, tendons, emotions, brains, society and Nature. We want to trace the continuum between a physical movement and its progressive echoes.