Formation retreats - Spain Belgium Italy - 2009

dancing your life presents aimed at all kind of artists and at all people who are passionate by art

Freedom

Rigour

Virtue

Formation retreats - Spain Belgium Italy - 2009

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Danza Duende® is a training under all aspects of our lives, which allows us to value and elevate our existence by dancing. It leads us to discover the art being as we are and to open ourselves to the potential of our free and loving nature.

This project has been created by Myriam Szabo with the purpose of transforming our lives into an art practice offers numerous activities to cultivate basic goodness in daily life.

In our international trainings several teachers gather together their different artistic skills in order to propose a strong synergic work, bringing together exercises on perceptions, on intelligence, improving braveness, nourishing a spirit of joy and generosity.

It is a long-term training that allows us to visit the very sources of form in our own mind and to discover our intrinsic potential so that we can work in all aspects of life as if we danced our life.

NOW ALL THE ACTIVITIES AND RETREATS ARE OPENED FOR BOTH SEXES.

The Duende methods mainly aim at developing our perception of space, courage and the capacity to improvise, to create forms, to adapt ourselves to changes, to capture movements quickly, to express ourselves clearly and intensely, to communicate and to be flexible and generous when working in others.

Danza Duende® envisages a training that promotes ethics and joy in the transmission of art.

With the collaboration of : www.alqvimia.com photographs : Jérôme Latteur | design : Olivier Vin

RETREATS & WORKSHOPS

Level 1— « The basis, the path and the fruit » (In spanish and french)

Place: Lalita (Spain) — 29/05-06/06/2009 Teacher: Myriam Szabo - assistant: Marga Gomez Info & inscriptions: danzaduende[at]gmail.com - myriamszabo[at]gmail.com www.danzaduende.org — www.lalita.net

Level 2 — « MAITRI » (In spanish and french)

Place: Lalita (Spain) — 21-29/05/2009 Teacher: Barbara Mertens - assistant: Myriam Szabo Info & inscriptions : danzaduende[at]gmail.com - myriamszabo[at]gmail.com www.danzaduende.org — www.lalita.net

Level 1— « The basis, the path and the fruit » (In french and english)

Place: Orval (Belgium) — 22-30/06/2009 Teacher: Myriam Szabo - assistant : Emeric Thuret Info & inscriptions : myriamszabo[at]gmail.com - hibouvoyageur[at]hotmail.com www.danzaduende.org

Level 1— « The basis, the path and the fruit » (In italian and english) Place: Casa Garuda (Italy) — 22-29/08/2009 Teacher: Myriam Szabo - assistants : Brian Hilliard, Liliana Viegas Info & inscriptions : myriamszabo[at]gmail.com - info[at]metissart.it www.casagaruda.org

Level 3— « Personnal instructions » (In spanish and french)

Place: Nou Espiral, Girona (Spain) — End of Sept. 2009 (dates to be confirmed) Teacher: Myriam Szabo Info & inscriptions : myriamszabo[at]gmail.com - www.nouespiral.net

LEVELS PROGRAM

Level 1— « The basis, the path and the fruit »

BASIS : The sky. Freedom here and now. The peaceful mind.

PATH : Earth. Rigour: harmony and natural rhythm. The overcoming of fear and the open inquisitiveness of the warrior. The scientific mind.

FRUIT : Ourselves, our natural virtues: generosity, communication, the unconditional joy of a fresh spirit in the service of life. A simple heart.

This course consists of a series of different exercises going from dance and theatre to calligraphy and meditation, aiming at opening breaches on our usual habitual patterns and at liberating us from the limits these impose on us. The chronology of the themes is a fixed basis for the development of the course. The sources and techniques used may vary according to situations and circumstances.

Level 2 — « MAITRI »

MAITRI : « Living the colours of wisdom » The potential transformation of emotive states and the discovering of their intelligent source.

A psychology study programme created by Chogyam Trungpa in the Naropa Institute, USA, and presented within the framework of the Danza Duende project by Barbara (See following page) Maertens and Myriam Szabo.

THE LEVEL 2 MAITRI

The Sanskrit word « maitri » means love or unconditional friendliness. The maitri space awareness practice was developed by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan mediation master and is based on the traditional teachings about the five Buddha families as well as other elements of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism.

The five Buddha families describe five basic aspects of manifestation which can be experienced on every outer and inner level of being in each moment new. We all move through life with our individual patterns of behaviour and perception which are an expression of the dynamic interplay and potential of these five archetypical forms of energy. Each of the families can be experienced as awake or confused, depending on the approach we take towards it.

In maitri space awareness practice we heighten and provoke these basic energy patterns by using colours and specific body postures. In this way we have the opportunity to experience and explore the dynamic play of these energies in all itʼs manifold colours. We learn to trust the display of itʼs expressive power in us and others and get a chance to expand our habitual emotional and perceptional repertoire. By befriending ourselves it dawns to us that we are nothing but a unique and precious dance of these five energies and their manifold variations.

Myriam Szabo

TEACHERS

A soloist dancer of the Russian Ballet Irina Grjebina at the age of 12, Myriam Szabo has studied the disciplines of the body intensively all along her artistic career: world dances, martial arts, yoga and qi gong. She has been participating in several study and meditation retreats (both individually and in group) on a regular basis since 1981. After having worked in France and Portugal as a character dance soloist, a model, a cultural festival producer and as an actress, she created the Danza Duende project which proposes to dance one’s life as a means of awakening one’s natural goodness each day. Myriam has been giving seminars in different European countries since 1991.

In 2005 she decided to set her main residence in Brussels, where she was invited

by Christine Delmotte to dance as a soloist in Molière’s play « Les Fourberies de Scapin » in 2007. She will also be performing in the play « Sur les traces de Siddharta » by Chrisitine Delmotte, which will premier this year at the Martyrs’ Theatre.

Liliana Viegas

Liliane began her training in ballet at the age of 11 with Raselli Del Camby in Rabat, Morocco. From the age of 18 she also studied jazz dance and ballroom dancing in France. She took part in the formation of the first jazz dance group with Rui Horta in 1978, after which she created her own company and dance studio under the name of « Setima Posição » in Lisbon.

Professional dancer, choreographer and dance teacher for over 20 years, Liliane has taken part in numerous independent productions for television or theatre.

She discovered oriental dance in 1997 with Myriam Szabo and joined the Danza Duende project.

Clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and bioenergetic analyst , Liliane also works as a dance-therapist in a psychiatric hospital in Lisbon.

Barbara Maertens

Barbara Maertens is trained in cultural pedagogy, Zen-arts and contemplative psychology; currently she is director of the Buddhist gate of Shambhala Europe.

Barbara Maertens teaches Maitri Space Awareness practice and other contemplative approaches to art, work, and to life in general. Her special emphasis lies in training sense perception and creative expression in individual and group work. She is a Buddhist teacher with more than 20 years of practice. Today she is a member of faculty in Karuna and Upaya, has two grown up children and lives in Cologne, Germany.

Brian Hilliard

Brian Hilliard has been a student of Vajrayana Buddhism for over 30 years. He has studied and practiced under several masters from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, including Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Thrangu Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. In 1997 he completed the traditional three-year retreat in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He is presently director of Casa Garuda, a retreat center in the heart of Italy, which hosts meditation retreats and and seminars in the contemplative arts.