Live dancing 3

Dance and psychological practice. Winter-spring cycle of three blocks - Body, Feelings, Different I Integral greed A certain part of the experience that people meet in different dance practices needs to be defined, but there is no one name for it. It concerns special experiences and goes beyond “just dancing”, it is not connected either with dance as entertainment, or with dance as an art - there is something else. Sometimes in Russia this aspect of movement is called dance therapy, but this is not entirely correct. Apart from “pure” dance therapy, there remains a wide field populated with very different formats. Dance as a healing practice, dance as meditation, as a way of self-development - hundreds of forms of conscious movement. Each direction chooses its own perspective in a special experience within the dance. Integral dance is one such trend. Integral greed - a healthy greed to feel, understand, express, find a place for very different aspects of dance - and has been called integral. Now the integral dance includes 4 MODULES, which we are researching and developing. INTEGRAL SOMATICS. How can different forms of body exploration enrich movement, dance and human understanding through the body side? The modern understanding of corporeality is very important, and modern research in neurophysiology gives a new impetus to it. Much of our experience and understanding of dance and physicality is due to the main way of working - FREE MOVEMENT, IMPROVISION (and not given forms).Another big module is psychological, PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC WORK through dance and movement. It can exist both in a training format (when we work with relationships, shadow, emotions, personal history, etc.), in the format of therapeutic groups or individual therapy. And there is a meditative part - dance is like meditation, like SPIRITUAL PRACTICE. We refer to various forms of movement meditation and ritual. The clearest illustration of how this works is the Authentic Movement. All four modules naturally support each other; this is not a systemic difference, but rather inter-flowing streams feeding each other parts of the same plant. In integral dance there is no hierarchy, everything is important, everything is significant, but at the same time choice, freedom of movement within the labyrinth of feelings and meanings remains. Integral dance emerged as an attempt to comprehend that DANCE AS A WAY TO INTEGRITY IS MORE THAN THERAPY. Yes, for many people, therapeutic work is needed to arrive at greater wholeness. But not only. In my opinion, integrity is impossible without creativity. And in a sense, without turning to something greater than a person - to deeper meanings, values ​​and spiritual experience - integrity is impossible. This is one of the many laws of development: to discover wholeness, we need to walk the path of transcendence and inclusion, transcendence and acceptance.