Hi!!!
I am Nezha.
Today (12/09/2013), I am right now writing from Morocco, at the principle of a new life... Happy as never before... Full of projects and dreams...
How I get here? How I discovered myself? How I allowed myself to follow the pathway which my body-mind-soul needed to follow? How, at 28 years old, I get the courage to let my career of lawyer and to go traveling 2 years dancing around the world, and today starting my own project in Morocco? No doubt, I was just sure that I had to let my shoes and go barefoot to my happyness...
I write this blog to share with you my journey from the last 2 years. I called it "improvie" (improlife), wich is my new leitmotiv!!
You will be the witness of my changes, in my way of moving (I did many video dance) but also in my way of writing my experiences, you will be able to feel how I incorporated in my body-mind everything I learnt during this amazing journey... my first Contact improvisation class, my first performance, my first step as teacher...
So let's start by the beginning:
I spent 4 years leaving in Almeria (South of Spain) and working as Lawyer in an International business department of a big Spanish Company, traveling all the time for promoting Solar Energy in worldwide. Very exciting job, challenges every day, I was working with a very good team. I learnt so much during this "business girl life" experience. Thank you
But the last year, I started to feel sad, with less motivation, with many body pains, blocking back, very stress and, for the first time in my life, pessimistic and negative...
It was obvious that I should change somethings in my life... But what? How? When?
For my summer holidays in Lyon (my home town), I decided to participate to an intensive week Contact improvisation (CI) workshop with Joerg Hassmann in Arts en Scène.
Many many years ago, when I was leaving in Barcelona, I heard about CI and play a bit with but I let it there...
Now I will dance as I want, always. Now I will be as I want always...
I will not be viewer of my body moving anymore.
I am Nezha.
Today (12/09/2013), I am right now writing from Morocco, at the principle of a new life... Happy as never before... Full of projects and dreams...
How I get here? How I discovered myself? How I allowed myself to follow the pathway which my body-mind-soul needed to follow? How, at 28 years old, I get the courage to let my career of lawyer and to go traveling 2 years dancing around the world, and today starting my own project in Morocco? No doubt, I was just sure that I had to let my shoes and go barefoot to my happyness...
You will be the witness of my changes, in my way of moving (I did many video dance) but also in my way of writing my experiences, you will be able to feel how I incorporated in my body-mind everything I learnt during this amazing journey... my first Contact improvisation class, my first performance, my first step as teacher...
So let's start by the beginning:
I spent 4 years leaving in Almeria (South of Spain) and working as Lawyer in an International business department of a big Spanish Company, traveling all the time for promoting Solar Energy in worldwide. Very exciting job, challenges every day, I was working with a very good team. I learnt so much during this "business girl life" experience. Thank you
But the last year, I started to feel sad, with less motivation, with many body pains, blocking back, very stress and, for the first time in my life, pessimistic and negative...
It was obvious that I should change somethings in my life... But what? How? When?
For my summer holidays in Lyon (my home town), I decided to participate to an intensive week Contact improvisation (CI) workshop with Joerg Hassmann in Arts en Scène.
Many many years ago, when I was leaving in Barcelona, I heard about CI and play a bit with but I let it there...
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With Joerg we practiced "bodyworks" , various exercises to create awareness of our body alone or with a partner, by touching and exploring the joints of the body. Ways to say "no" with your body. Joerg underlined that we should be always present and honest and aware of our own limits. Not ever to be a victim, if we don't feel comfortable, if our partner hurts us, if we want to stop or if we don't want to dance.
To be able to say "no" was for me a slow and important process of discovery and empowerment in CI, because in some ways this is in contradiction to my social habits of politeness, and the assumption of commitment when you start a discussion or relationship...
How to witness others in the dance, as well as yourself . For Joerg the witness role is very important for CI practise. First of all, for the person who is the witness, it is a very good way of learning, and being inspired. It is also interesting to watch all the reactions, the expressions on the face of the person who is the witness, and this can also be considered as part of the performance. The person who dances can feel the support of the witness. Then there is also the opportunity to discuss and share the different points of view of the performance, and this creates a constructive discussion.
We were 20 participants, and many like me beginners. It has been a very nice group, all very sensitive and receptive. The last day, we went dancing in the park "Tête d'or" with the CI community of Lyon "Jam'in Lyon". Jam'in Lyon is a group of CI dancers (initiated after a workshop done by Joerg in 2007), who organized workshops, lab and a weekly jam (Sunday jam in Arts en Scène). Beautiful bodies... The workshop was full of information for me, and full of emotions. I was re-discovering my body, little by little. And my body was already starting to store new information of movement, and the feeling of connection with my mind. The body has memory and mine will never forget this experience. At this moment, everything was clear. I have to change my life! I have to do it! and now! Dancing and traveling... perhaps yes this is my new pathway... I remember very well the reaction of Joerg when, at the end of the workshop, I told him that I will let my job, my house and go for dancing! Mix of surprise, fear and fun... Incredible, at this moment I didn't feel any fear, any doubt. I was just feeling alive, many many many new opportunities guiding me to my deep happyness... THANK YOU |
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Now I will dance as I want, always. Now I will be as I want always...
I will not be viewer of my body moving anymore.
