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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 common space that holds and enlarges the imaginal and somatic range for self to move in
A collaboration between Deborah Haaksman, Ecopsychology
& Nora Amin, Dance Ritual and Choreography
Grief has been in the shadow of culture for long enough.
Death and the City intends to change that.
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.
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 mindful listening and storytelling. This form of sharing has the potential to create instant community around a theme.
Death and the City goes Dance is a first time collaboration between Deborah Haaksman and Nora Amin.
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 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.
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The intent of this workshop is that by reviving our collective idea of death as a rite of passage, we revive its transformative power as an integral part of our cultural practices.
The workshop is open to all ages, genders and backgrounds.
Our workshop language is English.
Questions and contributions in German, French, Arabic and Hebrew can be fluently integrated into our conversation.
One ticket is valid for the entire weekend, February 14 & 15
