Saturday 9 May, 09:30

Bodies and Territories: Explorations in Practice

Booking Required

Sofie Dubs, choreographer and director of cie TransD, draws on over twenty years of research into body–environment relationships, developing movement-based tools that bridge somatic practice, ecology and interdisciplinary inquiry.

This workshop examines practical methods linking movement and landscape through Body-Mind Centering and Bodyweather–inspired exercises, reflective and poetic prompts, and outdoor sensory explorations. Participants investigate textures of public space, experiment with embodied research tools, and reflect on how somatic practice reveals territorial dynamics and environmental relationships.

In French.

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Photo Credit: Gaëtan Bhend
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Photo Credit: Gaëtan Bhend

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