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Energy Image Flow: Critical Practice
“Energy Image Flow” is an enquiry into the intersection of Qigong energy cultivation with movement improvisation for dance and performance. Qigong is an Eastern Daoist system that aims to integrate the mind, body and spirit into a relaxed flow of energy guided by the breath. Through grounding the body, relaxing the muscles and quietening the mind, one can experience a sense of interconnectedness with the inner and outer world. The workshop will train the embodied imagination to generate kinaesthetic expression from images and energies that flow in and out of a receptive body. 5 week series Mondays June 2 - 30 2025 6-8pm More info: https://criticalpath.org.au/programs/critical-practice-with-lian-loke/ Book: https://events.humanitix.com/critical-practice-energy-image-flow-with-lian-loke-2025 Critical Path, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney, June 2025 |
Energy Image Flow: Qigong meets Butoh
These sessions will begin with warming up the body and activating Qi energy flow through Qigong exercises and principles of moving meditation.
Emptying the mind, relaxing and tuning into subtle energy vibrations inside and outside the body.
Emptying and preparing the body to dance from the interior, subconscious, non-rational.
Training the embodied imagination to generate kinaesthetic expression from images and energies that flow in and out of a receptive body.
Readymade Works, Ultimo, Sydney, April 2024
These sessions will begin with warming up the body and activating Qi energy flow through Qigong exercises and principles of moving meditation.
Emptying the mind, relaxing and tuning into subtle energy vibrations inside and outside the body.
Emptying and preparing the body to dance from the interior, subconscious, non-rational.
Training the embodied imagination to generate kinaesthetic expression from images and energies that flow in and out of a receptive body.
Readymade Works, Ultimo, Sydney, April 2024
Skinfulness Workshop
The skin is boundary, envelope and exquisite potential for sensual bliss and connection.
Drawing on sensing, feeling and moving techniques from Body-Mind Centering, Contact Improvisation and Bodyweather somatic and dance practices, you will first get to know your own skin. You will then practice contacting through skin with other bodies.
No training is required, simply a curiosity to be present in your own delicious skin.
Make Love Not War festival, Glebe Town Hall, Glebe, Sydney, 26-27th January, 2024
The skin is boundary, envelope and exquisite potential for sensual bliss and connection.
Drawing on sensing, feeling and moving techniques from Body-Mind Centering, Contact Improvisation and Bodyweather somatic and dance practices, you will first get to know your own skin. You will then practice contacting through skin with other bodies.
No training is required, simply a curiosity to be present in your own delicious skin.
Make Love Not War festival, Glebe Town Hall, Glebe, Sydney, 26-27th January, 2024
Let's Get Animal Workshop
Discover your inner animals. Move out of human verticality into four limbed prowling, hypnotic snake coiling or frisky bunny hopping. Let animal impulses colour your erotic expression. What is waiting to be let out of the internal zoo? Drawing on experiential anatomy and energetic healing practices, this workshop will explore pathways into the playful realm of trans-species embodiment.
Xplore Festival on the Art of Lust, Critical Path, Sydney, April 2011
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Pigeon Body Workshop
An exploration of pigeon anatomy, visual perception and movement using experiential anatomy and embodied imagination approaches. It maps between human and pigeon anatomy (skeleton and organs), morphing from the human body to a pigeon embodiment. xDesign Environmental Health Clinic, New York, November 2009. Photos by Laura Dodd. |