MODULE #2

Every night – without exception – you plunge into a dreaming reality. You are carried away by a flood of seemingly unrelated images, dramatic events, unforeseen meetings, incoherent developments, and unconventional resolutions. You wake up deeply moved, often wishing to erase this night’s journey. “It was just a dream”, you say.

What if these nighttime adventures are not only an assemblage of coincidental pictures, but they weave a precise, clear, and deeply embodied image of your everyday life? What if they reveal to you a personalized, inner map depicting numerous choices you face, and possible responses to your waking life? What if they are the key to creativity?

Dreams are showing you where you are. They are “news from the body”.

Every night, in a series of short journeys they present challenges you are currently facing, and possible resolutions. They show you what you desire, and what you fear; what you crave and what you despise. They show you an unconditional potential to grow into YOU within a community. If you can understand the poetic, non-linear language of your dreaming, an interactive, clear and very actual map unfolds. An accurate possibility of choice follows. You are capable of choosing and co–creating your waking life.

The work begins with an awareness and sensitivity practice that opens up the body to create from what currently is, from the constantly changing “here and now.” We learn to notice the flow of sensations, images, and feelings. We learn to choose which one to follow and embody. By ‘shifting the eye’ to different places within the body and without, attending to the rhythm, space, emotion, form and story, we become present and responsive. We turn what we experience and see into unique dances and instant choreographies. This practice is explored in solo research and with the presence of an observer, embedded in the living tissue of the whole group.

We work with night dreams and with waking dreams, unfolding from an improvisation. A singular dream is opened by other participants, revealing potential, always available, yet often unseen aspects of the self. We learn to recognize and precise dreams’ storyline, and its' relations with waking life; we discover repeatable patterns; we find a question, which forms dreams’ compositional axis and leads to a hidden treasure of a new reality.

We apply dreamwork to choreographic practice, opening any image, situation and form, responding to it from a place of rested, attentive awareness. The work combines intuitive ways of creating with conscious choreographic decisions. We move playfully between waking life and dreaming, between doing and observing, expanding an awareness of the endless flow of impulses, able to choose which one to follow, form and manifest. Working with questions allows for a poetic way of composing, weaving movements in a non-linear, associative manner that fosters connections between seemingly unfamiliar materials.

When the outer signposts lose their validity, a radical re-turn within is the only possible direction. The message of the inside becomes an action I take in my waking life. From a dialogue of dreaming and waking reality, a sense of belonging, individual and collective responsibility unfolds. I create my and our future in the “here and now” of my choosing.