Aya Toraiwa – Curious Softness

Peace in movement, softness in strength

Aya Toraiwa invites you to move in a dynamic way, while finding peace and softness at the same time. How can you release energy by surrendering to gravity? And how can you better understand your body through breathing and by shifting your weight?

For this workshop, Toraiwa draws inspiration from techniques of Aikido and Tai Chi. Through scores, games and improvisation, you will learn how movement can flow smoothly through your body.

You will be given tools to learn how to move fluently and with pleasure, and to make a deeper connection with yourself and your environment. You enhance your physical strength, balance and stability, while also nurturing a feeling of softness and relaxation. In this class curiosity and movement come together, technique becomes instinct and your body finds new ways to flow.

Aya Toraiwa is a dance artist and a teacher, originally from Tokyo and currently living and working in Berlin. She is fascinated with the exploration of how bodies shift between being objects, material that takes up a space, a place where an event happens, and how a body becomes a medium of communication, while playfully dealing with the vulnerability of sense making. Welcoming fragility, acknowledging every detail and careful listening lies at the core of her practice.

gravity, weight, flow

This workshop is open level. Do you have questions about the accessibility of a workshop? Contact us at outofthetoolbox@danspunt.be.