MONTHLY DEEP DIVE INTO EMBODIED DANCE MOVEMENT WITH DANIEL *SONIC* ROJAS
* Postponed until further notice *
You have unleashed the dancer/mover within, but now what? Maybe you have trained in technique, even refined your discipline with study, but how can you take your movement experience to the next level in an intelligent, playful and efficient way?
Join professional dancer and mover of more than 25 years, Daniel *Sonic* Rojas, for a 6 series monthly session of Embodied Dance Movement, learning the principles and exploring through experience the different levels of embodied movement practices. This is the first time that Daniel is bringing these specific deep dive workshops to Singapore and a wonderful opportunity to practice with an experienced movement practitioner, inspiring and evolving your own personal movement practice.
These monthly sessions will take place in a spacious dojo in central Singapore with tatami mats and plenty of props - the perfect setting to safely explore your own form of movement.
No significant experience is required and these sessions are open to all levels, from beginner to professional. The sessions can be individually adapted to meet you at the place where you are in your movement story. Perfect for capoeristas, parkourists, martial artists, contemporary dancers, breakdancers, yogis, fitness enthusiasts, or a general interest in movement. Welcome to attend all or specific sessions.
MONTHLY SESSIONS 2020
Fridays, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
17 Jan: Embodying the Art of Playful Movement
Bringing playfulness into one’s movement practice, to get outside of technique, structure, rigidity, and bring play, simplicity and fun into a movement practice. This workshop includes animalistic and locomotive movements, specifically capturing the quality behind these movements, creating a playful practice.
21 Feb: Using Movement as a Form of Communication
Exploring your spirit body through movement - the way in which we communicate non verbally, developing trust within ourselves and our environment, and circulating between giving and receiving. This session will use partner work, original movement forms and martial arts-inspired contact improvisation
20 Mar: How to Build an Intelligent Movement Practice
Curating one’s own intelligent practice using playfulness, physical conditioning, mobility and alignment. Within this intensive, participants would gain a better understanding of their physical body and how to design a personal practice that is intense, efficient and non-stressful.
17 April: What Moves a Mover (CANCELLED)
Letting it go, traveling beyond technique to the seed of feeling from which every authentic movement originates. This workshop is for deep diving into the sea of emotion and feeling, escaping the critique of the mind or the framework of technique, and unleashing authenticity through embodied emotion.
22 May: Mobility as a Dance (CANCELLED)
Cultivating multidirectional, cyclical and spiralized movement. This workshop is for breaking away from linearity, and instead, incorporating mobility into one’s movement art form as a way of including a holistic range of muscular movement, circulating life force energy effectively, healing the body and mind and nourishing movement with fluidity.
12 June: Embodied Therapeutics (CANCELLED)
Somatically experiencing an interplay of gentle movements and stretches, yoga, meridian knowledge and bioenergetics to open and align the physical and energetic forms. This workshop is a synthesis of the most effective bioenergetic practices from Daniel's movement career, offered as a meditative flow between physical postures, stretches, energetic movements, self massage, and embodiment practices as a means of healing, rehabilitating and restoring the body and mind.
VENUE:
Kali Majapahit Singapore
43 Carpenter Street #02-01
Singapore 059922
FEES
Per session: 50 SGD
*Package of 3 sessions: 120 SGD (40 SGD each)
*Full Package of 6 sessions: 180 SGD (30 SGD each)
*For the Package of 3 sessions, participants can choose which sessions they attend. If they continue with more than 3 sessions, they can have the same rate of 40 SGD per session. There are no refunds for missed classes in either package.
Payments can be made in cash on the first day of attendance or via PayNow/PayLah upon registration.
ABOUT EMBODIED DANCE MOVEMENT
Embodied Dance Movement (EDM) is a unique, multi-layered movement methodology created by Daniel *Sonic* Rojas from an accumulation of more than 25 years experience as a professional dancer and movement enthusiast, created through intense self practice and a deepening journey of experiencing movement in a holistic way. Everything is a dance, from the way we breathe to the way we move within our relationships and environment. EDM specialises in the foundational understanding of body mechanics so that one can find the rhythm in all movements. Through its integrative approach, EDM dissolves the boundaries between movement cultures with the aim of deepening body awareness, connecting to feeling and developing an intelligent self practice of conscious movement. The foundational levels of EDM develop alignment, strength, flexibility, mobility, coordination and feeling behind movement through isolations, animalistic and locomotive work, creative calisthenics, embodiment of emotion, partner work, contemporary movement techniques and bioenergetic flows between movement and stillness.
ABOUT DANIEL *SONIC* ROJAS
DANIEL "SONIC" ROJAS has been dancing, moving and performing for more than 25 years, and is known around the world for his movement creativity and dance mastery. His rich experience includes several World, European and Scandinavian Championships in breakdance, touring for nearly 20 years with reputable, contemporary dance companies in Europe, performing in world acclaimed theatre productions, dancing for Queens, Kings and Presidents, and inspiring millions to move through his performances, competitions, workshops, injury rehabilitation and life story. Combining his Latin roots and his experiential journey of many years as a dedicated movement practitioner, Daniel has created his own art form, Embodied Dance Movement (EDM). EDM is a multi-level movement methodology, grounded in mindfulness, that dissolves the boundaries between different movement cultures with the aim of giving individuals a unique way of expressing themselves, expanding body awareness, connecting to feeling and developing an intelligent self practice of conscious movement. The five core principles of EDM include mobility, alignment, strength, feeling and locomotive movement, explored through a variety of integrative movement art forms. Daniel shares EDM worldwide to all ages and levels, including at festivals, schools and dance academies, as well as continues to perform, compete and judge international events and to share private sessions and immersions.
VIDEOS:
Interview about Embodied Dance Movement: https://youtu.be/zwlBrv0NakE
Embodied Dance Movement: https://youtu.be/19uOB9YOagY
Embodied Dance Movement: https://youtu.be/HdTwcAYxO7Y
Artistic Dance: https://vimeo.com/136423280
Artistic Dance Collaboration: https://youtu.be/iu5VpNLlqs4
Breakdance: https://youtu.be/eOayVTJbpAM
Trailer: https://youtu.be/SlQTeVS90Sw
WEBSITE:
WWW.DANIELSONICROJAS.COM
TO REGISTER:
info@danielsonicrojas.com