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ABOUT

Javier Cura (full curriculum in PDF) is an argentine american multidisciplinary artist. He completed  his Master in Modern Literature at Buenos Aires University (Argentina).  He has dedicated himself to the Fine Arts  having created several art exhibitions of objects, sculptures and installations in Bs.As, Arg.

He has performed, directed and created dance theatre shows in Argentina, Colombia, USA, Italy, Germany and Indonesia. He presently teaches contact-tango, physical theatre and contact-improv internationally and regularly visits England, Italy, France, Czeck Rep, Germany and Argentina. He has been invited to teach at ZIP Contact Impro festival at Orvieto, Italy, at the Freiburg Contact Festival in Germany, at Alchemie Tango Festival in Prague, at the West Coast Contact Impro Festival, San Francisco (USA) and at Phantastango Tango Festival in Germany.

His last piece that merges tango and contact in a physical-theatre context was presented in Prague’s Dance Theatre “Farma Festival”, in Italy’s Terni Festival and in Mar del Plata, Argentina. In 2009, he was invited by Fabrik Potsdam Dance Theatre Festival to create a Physical Theatre and Tango show with  participants of his workshops. He is currently living in Berlin where he is conducting a research on Contact Improvisation expression at the Berlin Free University.

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THE ECOLOGICAL BODY

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We are animals that evolved through movement. Science now confirms how subtly intertwined is movement with body-mind development. Movement positively affects our own health, emotional moods, focused attention, memory and learning process to name just some.

On the contrary, all our “developed” societies have become primarily sedentary. We spend the majority of our time sitting, and consequently we have developed what has initially been called “diseases of captivity” because of the close similarities with the diseases suffered by animals in captivity. Actually, they are called “diseases of affluence” because they are generally suffered by the part of societies who have become wealthier and who can afford to “outsource” its vital movements, (e.g. movements related to food, transport, shelter, etc.), on someone else or something else.

The list of diseases of affluence related to our lifestyle go from obesity, heart diseases, diabetes, osteoporosis, cerebrovascular disease, some types of cancer, as well as attention deficit disorder, depression, anxiety, etc., etc.

THE ECOLOGICAL BODY practice wants to bring awareness over all of these with the purpose of empowering ourselves through the joy of movement. 

First of all, a change of perspective will allow us to bring movement into our everyday life, and not just as exercise at the end of a working day. Life offers plenty of opportunities to opt for movement: we can positively affect the design of our living environment (our homes, offices, clothes, transport, etc) as well as our everyday life choices. 

It becomes empowering because it brings awareness precisely of the choices we have. More importantly, what we choose regarding movement will affect our life and also the life of other human and non human beings. 

As a corpus of practices we will use a variety of elements going 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 analyse our practice, we will bring together elements from Biomecanics, Ecology and Bionergetics. From these perspectives we will ask ourselves how our movements affect our biology? What could be e.g the consequences in short and long term of a specific movement? 

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 going through our body-mind into the rest of the world

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AGENDA

2020 – January 11-12, Berlin. ICE BEAR BLUES Festival. Contact tango mini workshop. Info: ziller2000@gmx.de 

January 18-19, Bad Kreuznach, Germany (near Frankfurt) Contact Tango in Water and in studio” Info:Corinna Janson info@tanzhologie.de

January 25 Berlin, Germany. Contact Tango Workshop, Concert & Jam. Info: javiercuraworkshop@gmail.com

February 15-16 Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Ecological Body: Tai Chi, Contact  Impro & Tango Workshop & Jam. Info: javiercuraworkshop@gmail.com

March 13-14 Senigallia, Italy: Contact Improvisation through The Ecological Body. Info: Virginai Manoni virgivix@alice.it or  javiercuraworkshop@gmail.com

March 14-15, Cesena, Italy. Phyisical Theatre Workshop. Info: Ettore Nicoletti http://www.glieredi.com/ 

April 9-12 Schloss Bettenburg between Nuremberg and Frankfurt, Germany. Easter Contact tango workshop & Jam. Info: AlexandraSchwarz@gmx.net (http://www.schloss-bettenburg.de ) 

April 17-19, Rome. “Contact tango through the Ecological Body”. Info: Paolo Sannavino dottordudy@hotmail.com  

May 23-24, Kassel, Germany. “Contact tango”. Info: klaus@tangoundmehr.de & katja@tangoundmehr.de 

May 30-31, Berlin, Germany. The Ecological Body: Tai Chi, Contact  Impro & Tango Workshop & Jam. Info: javiercuraworkshop@gmail.com

June 25-28, Torino, Italy. Tango festival “Caras de Tango”. Contact tango workshop. For more details, visit www.carasdetango.com 

Bechyne Monastery, Czeck Republic. Summer Residency: 

July 1-3: Physical Theatre & Storytelling Workshop 

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July 4-12 The Ecological Body: THE HUMAN ANIMAL: Natural movement developed in Nature and applied to dances as Contact Impro, tango, Contacttango, creative Expression and Voice movement. Info: javiercuraworkshop@gmail.com

August 16-23: Serra dei Conti, Italy. Week Summer Residency: The Ecological Body: THE HUMAN ANIMAL: Movement-Touch-Voice & Play:Opening senses and Natural movement in Nature applied to Movement in general and specifically to Contact Impro, Tango, Physical Expression and Voice movement. Info: javiercuraworkshop@gmail.com

October 3, Berlin, Germany. Contact  Impro & Tango Workshop & Jam. Info: javiercuraworkshop@gmail.com

October 10, Berlin, Germany. The Ecological Body: Tai Chi, Contact  Impro & Tango Workshop & Jam. Info: javiercuraworkshop@gmail.com

Other workshops dates will be coming soon!

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