Ekaterina Kaliuzhnaia
Deep in woods

November 2, 2024
Studios 1+2, Villa Elisabeth
Duration - 2,0h (10:30-12:30)

Open level
English

Ekaterina Kaliuzhnaia is a dance artist, a certificated somatic practitioner and a student on Master program on Choreography and Performance in Giessen, JLU. In her practice she aims to redefine what reconnection with nature and with traditional culture means today. Critically observing the issues of somatics in arts, she creates interdisciplinary projects, such as community art and dance pieces. She also collaborates with various artists as a dancer and vocal performer. She performed and presented her works in various festivals and venues, including SDVIG Studio of Performing Arts (St. Petersburg), Antigel festival (Geneva), Schloss Broellin (Germany), Keurru summer festival (Finland), Diaghilev festival (Perm), Broadcasting Company YLE (Finland), Meyerhold Theater Center (Moscow), OK16 (Minsk), Homing (Tbilisi), Moscow International Biennale of Young Art.

In the wilderness every movement appears from the deeper instinct and from the deep listening to the forest. What if we could dance this way? What if we could embody this deep forest feeling in our dance? This workshop is inspired by somatic techniques, practice of authentic movement and artistic research. We will actively move our muscles, bones, ligaments, listening to our breathing and bodily sensations. Together we will explore intensity, depth and lightness as qualities for movement. We will observe how the words and images of depth influence our dance improvisation: deep woods, deep roots, deep listening, deep calm, deep state of mind, deep down in my being, deep movement.