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Pilar Echavarria

Butoh, Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement

Somatic mover, nomad dancer, a researcher of states of dance, Sub-Body Butoh Midwife, Water healer and therapist, holistic Artist and Architect of the invisible.

Since 2006, I dedicated and focus on dancing, studying and researching the body through different arts and techniques of Improvisation, Movement, Somatic Arts, Aquatic Healing and Psychosomatic disciplines like: Butoh, Contact Improvisation, BMC, Continuum Movement, Authentic Movement, WaterDance, Fluid Presence, Mindfulness, among others.

A research that takes place essentially in an experiential dimension based on listening, presence and trust in our body as an antenna, an instrument, a temple … This path has been a subtle, deep and bold diving into the Self; learning and guiding, creating, healing and performing, living and traveling through inner and outer landscapes, water and nature paradises. Since 2009, I have been co*creating frames like Labs, workshops, residencies, retreats and gatherings to guide and explore the relational body::: arts, healing, waters and nature; specially in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Brasil, Spain, India, California…

Fourteen years offering individual and group sessions/therapies in the water: WaterResonance, Fluid Presence and Aguahara (Open*natural waters sessions). 2016-2017 Guiding and midwifing at the Himalaya Subbody Butoh School in India. From June 2020, my work expanded and focused towards a therapeutic and healing direction. Deepening in the somatic dimension through the very essence of dance, movement, conscious touch, breath and coaching/inquiring into the Self. I guided over 20 “Transformational Retreats” at Pura Vida Wellness Retreat, Yelapa, Mexico.

I am studying now for four years what I called “Somatic” Astrology with Paloma Todd and Sky Astrology with Adam Gainsburg. Focusing on the cycle of Venus, connecting it with ancient Myths, Venus Sacred Sites and the somatic body… A journey into the depths of the Heart and the Feminine. An ongoing big passion for creating experiences for the body, while playing with the edge of wonderlands and documentary through visual arts.

 

Class in Spiral & Root / one day first, second and third week each

DANCING RESONANCE

An invitation to expand your dance and dive deeper into the wisdom of the body, to create and express your wild and true dance! Be an inhabitant of your own inner landscapes, and dance from your cells, your organs, your heart, your skin, your bones, your tongue…Movement  unfolding in unknown and unexpected directions, with an intention of exploring and inhabiting a fluid state of presence, including all the impossibilities, resistances, and obstacles for being.

Dancing Resonance is the art where I bring together the disciplines of movement that have inspired and informed my body on land and in the water: the subtleties of Somatics, the invisible dimensions and subconscious imaginaries from Butoh, the inner landscapes from Authentic Movement, the relational body in Contact Improvisation, the breath/movement connection that is holding the water dance, the gifts of touch…In my solo, dancing with other bodies, in an empty space or in nature. How is it that I can truly meet myself in the dance? How can I truly meet the other and allow the unique dance of the moment to emerge? Can we navigate together the unknown, stay there and meet the magic, the daily, the healing, the pleasure, nothingness? Can we stay there through the dance? Remembering your hidden deepest wisdoms, your subtle wildness, your own unique movement.

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