PHENOMENAL BODIES - axis syllabus training with Kira Kirsch

The Axis Syllabus is a somatic approach to dance and movement techniques and a collection of knowledge for learning, researching and experiencing movement. This includes moving with anatomical relationships, physics, bio-tensegrity, ongoing multi-disciplinary research, movement analysis and transmission. An Axis Syllabus class aims to create a collaborative learning environment and effective space for personal research.

In this training, we are discovering how to investigate, break down and describe movement with a strong orientation towards searching sustainable movement patterns and body states that respond to our needs and context. We look at safer and creative falling reflexes, sequential movement, exploring individual and contextual range of motion and expand kinetic literacy to name a few topics. These practices can be applied to dance and many other movement related fields.  In my classes I aim to create scenarios for textured and embodied sensing-dancing and a learning environment where your body can self-organize and thrive.

Information ideally self-seeds into resilient and adapted movement fitting your body and environments as well as opens new curiosities for autonomous study, practice and application. Explorations and concepts are made palpable through images, video, models, hands-on exploration, improvisation and looped movement patterns that can lead into more complex phrases. 

This is an open level training. Some movement experience is helpful but if you are not sure if this is for you feel free to contact me.

BIOGRAPHY
Kira Kirsch is a movement artist, community organizer, experiential researcher, mother and initiater/curator born in East Berlin. After seven years living and dancing in San Francisco she now works and lives with her family in Berlin as residents of Lake Studios - an artist run dance, production and performance place. She is deeply invested into creating and shaping spaces for people to experience, learn about and sensitize their mind-body-movement continuum. She has pioneered, taught and continuously researched through the lens of the Axis Syllabus (AS) for more than 20 years and has established dance research communities in Brussels, San Francisco and Berlin. Her work is also deeply influenced by her studies in Moving Alchemy/Sarah Shelton Mann, Biodynamic Craniosacral Studies, Mind in Motion (Nita Little), NVC and BMC. As a curator she collaborated on “SENSING IN festival”, mov*ed-a peer exchange platform for movement educators and has established a regular educational program under the name of Movement Artisans in Berlin. Kira is invited internationally to both contemporary and CI festivals and teaches at professional dance institutions. Recent artistic projects have been “Many Lives” with choreographer Jorge de Hoyos, (dis)comfort behaviours with actress Anneke Schwabe, "Earth will Come" with film maker Katelyn Stiles and musician/poet  Barnaby Tree or music video “We are the flood” and short film “dreamstroy” with the collective Cargocult.