CLASS

Studio Joji, rue de la Glacière 18, 1060 Brussels

Friday September 29, October 27, November 10, December 1, 10h30-17h.

260 euro for the whole series (70 euro/session if you can´t attend the whole series

In this series we delve into the embryological resonances that have led into the weightedness of the skeletal-muscular container. Both skeletal and muscular system provide form, shape, resistance, elasticity…The study of structure serves in this workshop as a portal into the ´place of space´, and willi visit concepts in movement such as currenting, invagination, sliding, binding, … . The skeletal-muscular system is a long-term studied system in somatic practices. One of the specific offers of Body-Mind Centering^® to this field consists of embracing preceding pathways that have led into a present moving self.

After obtaining a Master in History at the University of Ghent, Eva Maes (B) studied dance at the International program at Cunningham Dance Studio (1999-2001, NY, USA). As a Full Merit Scholarship student she received classes from different dancers of several generations of the Merce CunninghamCompany (Meg Harper, Louise Burns, Carol Teitelbaum, Foofwa d’Immobilité, Robert Swinston, e.a) as well as Merce Cunningham. During her training period in New York, she had a chance to study also with Janet Panetta (Classical Dance); Dianne Madden, Mariah Maloney (Trisha Brown Technique &Repertory), Barbarah Mahler (Klein Technique), K.J. Holmes,Vicky Shick,ea . In 2003 she met the work of Lisa Nelson’s, leading to more workshops and collaborations till today with her and within the group 'Tuning Space- Brussels’ (in la Manutention, Bordeaux, and in Nadine, Danscentrum Jette, Espace l’Escaut, Cartago Delanda Est, A. Pass, Espace Mutin, Tictac Art Centre, Brussels). In the same period, shestarted her studies at the School for Body-Mind Centering^® (Chiemsee, GER and Northampton, USA),where she graduated in 2006 as a Body- Mind Centering^® Practitioner and in 2019 as Certified Teacher of Body-Mind Centering (Tuscania, Italy). In 2004-2005 she studied Somatic Psychology with LindaHartley. She holds a Bachelor, Master and Teacher Training Degree Dance from the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp. She has been assisting Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in various workshops in NY (2006, 2018), Brussels (2007), Bratislava (2006), Berlin (2013, 2016), Amsterdam (2013), Claremont (2019) as well as in the licensed BMC^® programs Soma in Paris and Valcivières and Movimiento Atlas in Zaragoza, and has been teaching at Leben Nuova, Licensed Training Program BMC^® in Italy and at the Licensed Training Program BMC^® in Brazil. Since 2004 she presented solo´s on different occasions in Brussels, Antwerp and Sevilla (Duo + Justine, Reminiscen(c)e, Mimicry Project, Manos Vacias, …). Other collaborations in dance: Chantal Yzermans/Radical Low (NY, 2004, Valencia, 2007), Anouk Llaurens (Brussels, 2007, 2008, 2013(‘Visions’), 2014-2015 (‘Spectrum of the Senses’); Brussels & Vienna, 2023 (`Replays`), Alba Lucera (Sevilla 2017). In 2015 she co-organised together with the Body-Mind Centering^® Association ´Tracing RefleCTions-RefleXions´, the 2015 BMCA European Conference in Ghent. Since 2016 she has studied tangos and bulerías (Beatriz Morales, José Antonio Galván, Pastora Galván, Manolo Marin, Antonio Canales, ea). She is a professional member of the ‘Body-Mind Centering Association^®’ and chair of Ethics Committee of BMCA. She teaches dance and movement classes for children, adolescents and adults and Body-Mind Centering in the Bachelor Dance program, at RCA, School of Arts, Antwerp. She conducts the research ´Transmitting the Body´(2020-2022) within CORPoREAL group at the same institute.

evamaesbmc@gmail.com