Workshops 2025/26

How can we reach the liberation of the body? How can we nourish the healing body?
Let´s  dance and move the resilient body, with flexibility like leaves in the wind and stability like deep grounded roots, and capacity for metamorphosis and transformation.
This retreat is based on the body works of “Body Resonance -based on Organic Movement and Butoh” by Yumiko Yoshioka and “Movement-Dance with Nature” and “Authentic Movement” by Annalisa Maggiani, a journey into the resonances of the body, images and  the nature.

Programm
In the morning sessions for 3 hours, Yumiko Yoshioka will offer “Body Resonance” meeting the memories of the body, and freeing the resilient element  in our body.
In the afternoons for 3 hours, Annalisa Maggiani will lead us with the “Movement Dance with Nature and Authentic Movement” with the resonances of the elements of nature. Our body will find a way to expand and release the imaginary and the potential of metamorphosis, as opened in the morning trainings.
The mornings and afternoons come together toward a path of resonance, openness, and awareness, by releasing emotional and bodily blocks and integrating this experience into our lives and art.

Our Philosophy
The Body as a place of Being, of Becoming, of Passage in the continuous flow of existence, as a place of treasures to be known…
By giving form to the images that start from the body and the nature, we obtain a stronger perception of the world of sensations, of internal landscapes and of the connection with the external world, with the universe of which we are a part.
This Project is not proposed here as therapy, but as dance and experience that help us to be more receptive and in touch with our nourishing Self and the healing body: a personal journey of  Body Liberation!
Yumiko Yoshioka and Annalisa Maggiani have been collaborating for about 30 years in performance, performance projects and workshops. This new proposal stems from the desire to create a retreat for regeneration and healing by bringing together “Body-Resonance” and “Dance with Nature- Authentic Movement”.

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Workshop location
Casina Settarte (Ostuni-Apulia) - https://www.casinasettarte.org
Casina Settarte is a centre for creative development and education alongside the practice of sustainability, a place of creative research and experimentation surrounded by nature: „Here daily life is marked by the principles of love for the land, attention and care for every living being and the search for our essential self!“
The food is vegetarian and organic. Various accommodation possibilities you will have contact details when requesting information.
Arrival by train: Ostuni Train Station
Arrival by plane: Airport Brindisi (45 km to Ostuni) or Airport Bari and Train to Ostuni. In Ostuni pick up to Casina Settarte.

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Teacher

Yumiko Yoshioka
Belonging to a third generation of Butoh artists, she has developed a personal style of bodywork called Body Resonance, which integrates Butoh practice, inspired by Noguchi Taiso gymnastics and various other Asian training methods to help prepare the body to receive and transmit dance and creation.
She is a Japanese Butoh dancer and choreographer from Tokyo. Since 1988 she has been based in Berlin. She is a former member of Ariadone, the first female Butoh company, which was founded by Ko Murobushi and Carlotta Ikeda in 1974.
In 1978, she performed with Ko and Carolotta in Paris, LE DERNIER EDEN – PORTE DE L'AU-DELA, the very first Butoh performance to be presented in a public theatre outside Japan. In 1988 she met Minako Seki and delta RA'i in Berlin, with whom she founded tatoeba THÉÂTRE DANCE GROTESQUE. (1988 – 1996)
Yumiko founded the art-formation group "TEN PEN CHii  art labor " with visual artist Joachim Manger (Germany) and music composer, Zam Johnson (USA) (1995-2016) and presented quite a few of unique performances with installations, sound  and physical works.
Many other collaboration with international artists and dancers encouraged Yumiko to start to unfold her own personal style of dancing and choreography.

Annalisa Maggiani
has developed her own method “Movement-Dance with Nature and Awareness” result of a long research aimed at creating a terrain of awareness and integration between the body, the imaginary and the elements of nature. Fundamental points is re-establish a connection with the "natural body", combine individual rituals with collective rituals, the birth of a personal dance, connect our experiences to our everyday life.
Annalisa Maggiani is a dancer - focus on Butoh- and choreographer, dance-movement therapist, psychologist, and philosopher (University of Pisa). She is a studied MA art psychotherapist (Godsmith College) and Advanced Master´s Degree in Authentic Group Movement(Art Therapy italiana).  She collaborates  till 1995 with Yumiko Yoshioka in tatoeba THÉÂTRE DANCE GROTESQUE and in the Butoh Company  “Ten pen chii art labor”. In Italy and Berlin she worked as a performer and as a dancer therapist in several psychiatric rehabilitation centres and School, directed the Solo Butoh Festival "La Danza di Confine" (Lerici, Sarzana 2003-2013). She currently lives and works in Berlin and Italy - in Berlin at the Intercultural Centre for Women S.U.S.I., with refugee women and dance therapy projects with women with an eating disorder.
She also Collaborates in various social and performance-projects in Berlin and Italy and collaborate with many dancers, artist and musicians.
 

I hope to move and dance with you in this retreat. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to write to me.
Cari saluti and take care Annalisa  Maggiani  and Yumiko Yoshioka

Info and Reservation
E-Mail: annalisa@gest-azione.de
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