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Death and the City
goes Dance
A two day ritual on grief and transformative storytelling
February 14 & 15
14.00-18.00
Studio Location in Berlin Kreuzberg
Combining symbolic walks in urban nature and dance healing practices, this workshop weekend is an explorative offering:
🖤 to move the pain that comes with grief
🖤 to shape stories of meaning
🖤 to create a personal and a common space that holds and enlarges the imaginal and somatic range to embody and transform grief
A collaboration between Deborah Haaksman & Nora Amin.
Deborah is a rites of passage guide, an ecopsychologist and dramatic writer specialized in cultivating narrative practices in co-authorship with self, place and nature.
Nora is an academic scholar with a PhD in cultural policy, a grief coach, author and expert in choreographic rituals.
Grief has been in the shadow of culture for long enough.
In nature, dying and becoming are not separate, they permeate and inform each other. Questions we live with and questions that move us in the face of death are written into nature.
And nature is a symbol of motion. The body is rooted in nature, therefore embedded in the cosmological wisdom of motion, transformation and healing.
Between the effects of the environmental stimulations and the impact of the corporal movement on the nervous system and on awareness, the human body re-explores its wounds, reclaims its power for healing and tells the story of its emotional transformation.
Deborah and Nora invite you to a gentle journey of grieving as a transformative experience, as a ritual embodied in dance, breath, words and in the encounter with nature.
When we experience existential processes such as grief in resonance with nature, an ancient body of knowledge awakens that lies dormant just beneath our urban skin.
On a symbolic walk, a grief walk through Berlin's urban nature, we enter a landscape that is culturally shaped by the complex interplay of shadow and light, of suffering and separation, of distinctive hoods and collective hope.
A space for sharing the personal and symbolic impressions we gather on a grief walk is offered through Council. Council is a group experience, a moderated form of deep listening that focuses on speaking and listening mindfully. This form of sharing has the potential to create instant community around a theme.
Based on her signature choreographic language, Nora Amin offers a space of experience that explores individual and collective dance rituals around grieving.
The ritualistic form of dance creates a personal and a common ground to revisit and reshape perceptions of emotional wounds, togetherness and individual histories from the archive of the living body.
The transformative and healing potential of grief is being felt through the practice of ritual dance. It offers meaning, strength and faith in life at large.
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By reviving our collective idea of death as a rite of passage, we revive its transformative power.
This workshop is about learning to live with the pain of change as a personal and a cultural practice.
The weekend is open to all ages, genders and backgrounds.
Our workshop language is English.
One ticket is valid for the entire weekend, February 14 & 15
