KONG Workshop 1.2024
Tidal Dance with Julien Bruneau
21/4/2024 from 10.30 to 12.30
2/6/2024 from 10.30 to 12.30
Tidal dance is a dance from within. After a moment of silence you start to move very slowly.
Julien guides the process until you are completely in motion, in space, in contact with yourself, without imposed form. It's a moment of enjoyment. Without realizing it, the two hours fly by.
This dance celebrates being. It is an energetic dance for everyone's body. The experience and the connection with an open energy are central.
"The tidal dance is a formless yoga. No postures, but the availability to a circulation that ebbs and flows from the axis of verticality. A contemplation in movement, it invites into experience the primordial pulse of apparition and withdrawal, emergence and dissipation, beginning and end.
At first, we sit in silence. We seep into bodily sensations, acknowledge the wave of breath, and embrace the space we are bathed into. Progressively movement wells up. A dance of slowness and intensity blossoms. It radiates from the center, twirls and ascends. Then, the journey recedes, back into stillness. We taste the resonance and dwell in presence, hosting the to and fro of sensations and feelings, now imbued with silence." (Julien Bruneau)
The practice is directly inspired by diverse approaches of Tantra (as sourced into Kashmir Yoga/non-dual Shaivism).
Where and when?
In KONG, Nieuwland 27, 9000 Ghent
Sunday, April 21 and June 2, 2024
from 10:30 to 12:30
For whom?
For everyone from 16 years old
Min. 8 and max. 14 participants
Price?
€ 18 / 1 session
To be deposited into the account of KONG: BE44 4449 6430 2145
With the mention:KONGWS1 2024April ( or the month of the session)
Julien Bruneau (BE) is a dancer, choreographer and
visual artist.
Julien Bruneau is an artist working with dance, presence, drawings and language. His practice is based on a dynamic interplay between interiority and collectivity. He creates performances, publishes, and works as an artistic researcher and a teacher. His first book, Fields, was published by Varamo Press in 2022.
From an early age, Julien was committed to movement through martial arts. Later, while studying visual arts, he discovers contemporary dance and the richness of conscious movement through different approaches: Body Weather, Yoga, Body Mind Centering, etc. In 2015, he is introduced to the ‘Authentic Movement’. After training with Céline Gimbrère, this simple and radical approach becomes a guiding principle in his work. From his long-term practice in Iyengar Yoga and later Kashmir Yoga, he teaches sessions in Tidal Dance, inspired by Tandava and Shaiva Tantra.
KONGconcert 2.2024
Beethoven's Septet op.20 en Four Dances for Septet by Vadim Bakker with Ensemble Calliope
26/05/2024 at 3 p.m.
The brand new ensemble Calliope Septet consists of seven passionate young musicians from the Royal Conservatories of Ghent and Antwerp. The ensemble
includes musicians of various nationalities. Their musical chains started together with an Orchestra Masterclass series with the Flander Symphony Orchestra working on repertoire by L.v.Beethoven. From their dedication and love to chamber music came the enthusiasm to take their
practice beyond the walls of the conservatory, presenting the responsibility as young musicians and making their own path as a vibrant new ensemble with free spirits.
Currently they are under the guidance by chairman of the chamber music department of Ghent Conservatory, Prof. Pieter Jansen.
The ensemble will venture into the iconic Septet Op.20 by Ludwig van Beethoven. In addition, the Calliope Septet will perform a new work-´Four Dances for Septet(2024)´
by dutch composer Vadim Bakker(*2000), who dedicated this piece to the Ensemble Calliope for their friendship.
The concert promises to be a captivating blend of classical grandeur and contemporary creativity.
Where and when?
In KONG, Nieuwland 27, 9000 Ghent
Sunday, May 26 at 3 p.m.
For whom?
For everyone who wants to discover the unique sound of this septet.
Price?
€ 15
To be deposited into the account of KONG: BE44 4449 6430 2145
With the mention: KONGconcert 2 2024.
Ensemble Calliope
Nika Mombaerts (violin)- The Netherlands
Maria Segura Martín (viola)- Spain
Bram Van Loey (violincello)- Belgium
Isa Opstaele (double bass)- Belgium
Xiaocheng Wang (clarinet)- China
Inés Gonzalo De Lozár (basson)- Spain
Justine Vercruysse (french horn)- Belgium
Workshop La semaine du son 2024 in KONG
The Circle of the Grieving Voices with Hoda Siahtiri
04/02/2024
The Circle of Grieving Voice(s) is an invitation to a collective vocal practice of grief. The artist Hoda Siahtiri will accompany the participants on a journey of finding their grieving voice through vocal exercises and body movements. The Circle of Grieving Voice(s) is a collective act of reconciliation to our emotions, a space to witness, voice and listen to the hollows of sadness residing and hidden in every one of us. Join the circle if you feel this is a call for you.
A workshop with max. 15 participants in KONG
04.02.2024 from 14.30 till 17.30.
Free entry
reservation required: https://www.lasemaineduson.be/en/event/the-circle-of-grieving-voices/
Hoda Siahtiri is a multidisciplinary artist with professional and educational background in film and performative arts. She calls herself a storyteller who narrates and mediates voices that have been silenced somewhere in the past. Hoda’s work centres on displacement, grief and vocal ancestral heritage. She conducts a PhD research at Sint-Lucas Antwerp on the singing tradition of Bakhtiari women in the west of Iran. Her short films, exhibitions and performances have been internationally shown in different venues and festivals.
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