2 - 6 March
This Citymoves remote residency is a new collaboration between movement practitioners Merav, Paolo and Claire.
It arises from an encounter at DanceLive Festival 2024, where Paolo attended a performance of Fields (Extract) by In the Fields Project (Merav and Claire). The movement taskscape of Fields (Extract) chimed with Paolo’s experimental movement project with prisoners, primarily at HMPG prison in Peterhead, where he works with both running and The Feldenkrais Method.
This residency week is the beginning of a conversation through practice to see what new insights might emerge from their mutual practices and their different approaches and perspectives in relation to common interests around (inter) connection, separation and boundaries.
About Merav Israel
Merav Israel is a dance artist, Feldenkrais Method practitioner and therapist, based in Edinburgh. She is working within the field of somatic movement and improvisational scores. Her work tends to be collaborative, poetic, relational, investigative, with an interest in the natural world and spirituality.
About Paulo Maccagno
Paolo Maccagno is a UK Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Teacher and Bones for Life® teacher. He owns a PhD in anthropology and is a passionate marathoner dedicating his life to sharing Feldenkrais as a philosophical practice with vulnerable people in educational as well as in marginal contexts such as prison.
About Claire Pençak
Claire Pençak is a dance artist with a cross disciplinary and collaborative practice living and working in the Scottish Borders. Her interest is in how dancing can offer hope-orientated and empathetic practices that nourish ecological relationship and different ways to connect – to ourselves, to others and to the more-than-human world.
About Citymoves
Citymoves Dance Agency leads positive impacts through dance in the North East of Scotland. Established in 1987, the charity strives to improve individual lives and transform communities by offering a diverse studio timetable, co-designing projects with local communities, and collaborating with partner organisations to promote dance both nationally and internationally. They also produce DanceLive Festival, an annual four-day dance festival held in Aberdeen each October.
Citymoves champions EDI, environmental sustainability, and Fair Work in everything they do and focuses their activities across four core pillars: Dance Health, Communities, Education, and Professional Pathways.
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