Lily Kiara

Please note: This is a two week, half days workshop. Preference will be given to participants who register for the full two weeks to go into a more extended and deep experience. If you’ve already studied in a week long workshop with Lily before, it’s possible to only come to join the second week. We’ll be building depth of experience throughout these two weeks. If you want to participate only in the second week, please register normally and write to info@tictacartcentre.com about when your previous SRT experience has been.

This workshop is aimed to share and practice mainly Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT). There may be moments throughout the whole workshop where we can experience directly how principles and practices in SRT (technique) support improvising and making dances together in the moment (live choreography).

Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is a visionary approach to dance and movement training, developed by Joan Skinner (1924-2021); a detailed, refined and expansive technique. It is designed to find greater ease in our dancing and dynamic alignment with our environment and a refined tuning with our bodies and imagination. The teaching strongly draws on guided imagery and hands-on partner studies, supporting an experiential understanding of both the technical and the creative process in movement. There is an ongoing fine tuning in allowing ourselves to consciously fall into unknown creative territories. We allow ourselves to be intimately in touch with our inner body as well as align with something greater than ourselves through embodied listening. As we move with imagery that guides us through different layers of the whole self, the imagery can begin to move us. The poetic imagery can atune to physiological layers and includes the mystery of intangible layers present.

Embodied listening, inner spaces, presence, dynamic stillness, softening and allowing are some of the essential areas of practice in Skinner Releasing (other than release), that support action into newness. Softening supports the releasing of strength through efficiency and responsiveness. Allowing encourages listening. This way we can become more available. In the technical work and in creating dances, directing and allowing are side by side, as are stillness and action, receptivity and fierceness. Joan Skinner said: “Letting go is a discipline”. It is a continuous practicing.

Giving something up, in order to give in.
you do not have to be a fire
for
every mountain blocking you
you could be a water
and
soft river your way to freedom
too.