​let's be comfortable in our own skin | snapshots | 2023

A series of dance improvisational meetings through a two-hour version of the dance practice 

Let’s be comfortable in our own skin” by Androniki Marathaki. 

Addressed to anyone who wishes to research the ways with which he/she/@ is able to move lustily and with pleasure into| with the world.

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The practice “let’s be comfortable in our own skin” proposes a Way for coordinating our moving in the world through the sensing of our Bodily Sensations. It is a practice, meaning it is about the very experiencing of practicing or of the very practicing the experiencing and of questioning what a bodily sensation is, but most importantly how can we coordinate our movement to the feeling of them. The quality of questions that inform the practice amplify a processing of constant change and an infinitely unfolding into movement. Its meditational quality focuses on the realm of the physical Body, expanding our attention to what arises before meaning, image, sound, language. How can we find availability for that kind of moving-sensing the world is one very important aspect of the practce. In order to achieve a non-active but thus more than ever present move of our self within the world, perception can be our gate through and also a restricted mirror. Driven by pleasure and aliveness,the practice emphasizes self motivation and agency, trusts the knowledge that resides in the ways we organize our movement through our Bodily networks and negotiates ways of communicating in a more than human dimension, releasing that way dance from its mimitizing mechanisms, as well as strains/pain/stretches that are caused through that kind of processing and perceiving movement.