Tessura
Belgium
Eva Maes, Christian Meier, Tamara Milla Vigo

Friday, Day 1
November 1, 2024
12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT

Figure out/Imagining new landscapes through a BMC® formation

In the process of preparing for a new licensed program, Tessura (birth year and place: 2024, Belgium), a circle of questions crystallizes: 

  • Why/how to affirm as well as re-vision an educational program spanning over half a century of history?

  • Why/how to deepen the relation between a school curriculum and its surrounding world?

  • Why/how to stand up for as well as question a moving curriculum, shared across the globe?

Eva Maes, Christian Meier and Tamara Milla Vigo will take the time to present briefly and open to a dialogue. We warmly welcome graduates and colleagues from Licensed programs, as well as freshly arrived Body-Mind Centering® or other somatic approaches' aficionados.

Tessura was formed in 2024 by Eva Maes, Christian Meier, Tamara Milla Vigo and Wilma Vesseur. Branching into the fields of dance and movement education, research and therapy as well as into the realm of artistic research and creation, Tessura vzw is dedicated to support awareness around dance and movement practices in general and the work of Body-Mind Centering® in particular.

Bios

Eva Maes

With MA in History, Eva studied dance at Cunningham Dance Studio, at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (MA DANCE, researcher at CORPoREAL-group), with Lisa Nelson and at the School for Body-Mind Centering® (certified Teacher BMC®). Other collaborations in dance include Chantal Yzermans/ Radical Low and Anouk Llaurens. She is Program Director of Tessura. She has taught at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, at Licensed Programs BMC® in Italy, France, Brazil. Fluctuating between educational, artistic and research environments, she continues to explore embodiment as core theme of dance.

Christian Meier

Christian (G) is a certified Body-Mind Centering® teacher and medical doctor. He is primarily dealing with transmitting experimental knowledge of the body as a source for creative-artistic and health promoting processes. His base is his training in Body-Mind Centering® (School of Body-Mind Centering®, Amherst, USA), his studies in medicine (University of Bonn) and music/violin (Konservatorium Nürnberg/Musikhochschule Nürnberg). Currently he is working as a freelance teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, mentoring a Somatic Movement Research Program (Alte Schule Kirchfembaf) and practicing as a medical doctor.

Tamara Milla Vigo

Franco-Peruvian, Tamara grew up between two visions of the world, leading her to mix in her journey the curiosity of the other and the quest for oneself. Dancer (contemporary and Peruvian folklore), she obtained a degree in Dance at the University of Paris 8. She trained at the BMC® formation from 2006 to 2019 (SME, Practitioner, IDME, Teacher). She graduated with a Master's degree in art therapy. Her artistic approach is at the crossroads between teacher, artist and therapist to better support the living and the difference.