DANCE + HEALING - Contact Beyond Contact.
a powerful aspect of healing is being witnessed in our transformation
Contact Beyond Contact (CBC), endorse dance as a healing practice accessible to all. Originally created by Vangelis Legakis, the founder and artistic director of Unity Space – an Arts and Healing Organization based in Hong Kong.
CBC is a practice that integrates Authentic Movement (AM), Contact Improvisation (CI) and Passing Through (PT) with profound practices of qigong, yoga, healing modalities and energy work, mindfulness and leadership skills as well as somatics and principles of behaviorism. These practices are well-woven together to create a holistic integration of the Body, Mind, Heart and Spirit.
contact beyond the means of physical contact
This practice will allow you to genuinely connect from the heart within the self, with another, with the environment as well as with nature beyond the means of physical contact.
The facilitator’s main focus in this practice is to hold space by creating a safe-boundaries-environment in which people can integrate, transform and heal in body, mind, heart and spirit. CBC provides a safe container where each individual is able to express, trust and transform by honoring their personal boundaries and the boundaries of others.
~ Connect with yourself and other (through partnership-s)
~Explore, understand and learn how to set boundaries
~Express fully and let yourself be seen and held
~ Create unity and balance body, mind, heart and spirit
Embodied Communication
A moment of pure presence, a communion with another being, heart to heart.
We slowly enter our sensations and internal landscape, we let our bodies speak to us and through us and access the mysterious source of our living being. What’s alive in you and your partner? What’s the story? Can you open yourself to the limitless possibilities of life?
*Short video filmed by the talented Isabela Zawist music by Catching Flies
who is the CBC session for?
CBC sessions are open to all – whether you are an experienced dance practitioner/ healer or a complete beginner to dance, holistic and spiritual practices – CBC welcomes you to experience and practice. The sessions offer you a non-judgmental space to discover and deepen your relationship within yourself, with others and the world around you. The skills and tools are all inclusive and take each individual into account, making it a practice available for all bodies and people of varying professional, cultural and religious backgrounds.