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Contact Improvisation Workshop with Alessandro Rivellino~~ The Thread In ~~
This workshop will follow a simple structure in order to allow possible depth to come along with lightness.
We have some hours, but perhaps we find a sense of timelessness.
We will dive somatically, with a guidance leading us towards embodiment, while dance also is invited to lead and teach us a bit.
We will have proposals to offer the thread of embodied trust to allow gravity to be our friend, and get nourishment from accessing and accepting it, offering support from the ground when it bounces back up, and well, improvising in this amazing middle, perhaps, recognising the core of motion.
At some point (I aim that we get there without any hurry), we will have a frame for practicing, opening up layers into the mystery of the practice in itself, as well as having time to integrate the journey without words, and if needed even with them.
This is a plan, it can change because your body will change the constellation of now when we will be together, just by coming as you are, so maybe some other pallets of colours come along the way.
It is only some hours, but maybe, one moment lived fully is enough to understand what this precious thing of eternity is about.
Date: Sunday 22nd March 2026
Where: Durrumbul Hall
Time: 10am-5:30pm. We'll have a 1.5 hour break for lunch. The suggestion is to bring a packed lunch and snacks as you need them. Otherwise, town is a 7 minute drive away.
Limited spots available.
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About Your Facilitator: Alessandro Rivellino (Brazil)
Ale has 21 years of surrendering to dance, dedicating most of his time for studying, practicing and teaching worldwide.
Contact improvisation and Somatics became his main ground, while passing through several different schools and practices of movement throughout the years.
Ale also dedicated many of his time in the past decades to study transpersonal practices and technologies of the sacred, having nature as home too, and main ally, as well as helping several Silent retreats to happen.
@ale.rivellino - Instagram
From Alessandro:
"I have been living dance and contact improvisation in a surrendered way as a dancer for 21 years and as a teacher for 16. I had the opportunity to travel to more than 33 countries, offering and having classes, intensive courses, workshops, residencies and Jams with different and experienced colleagues, which probably gave me a good "floor” to start with ‘not knowing with certain quality'...
I have studied a little bit of: BMC, Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, Antigimnastics, Muscular Chains GDS, Craneosacral Osteopathy, Modern Dance, Contemporary Dance, Anthropology, Philosophy, Choreography, Performance Studies, Sitespecific, Butoh, Authentic Movement, Zen Buddhism, Ancient Technologies of the Sacred; and a lot of Contact Improvisation.
I am passioned by the Contact Improvisation practice and I am engaged in organising retreats for it to receive its depth, with different containers, either in silence or within a somatic approach, bodywork research or getting inspiration with nature, the biggest pleasure is to offer space and time to the practice in itself.
I come from different dance schools at the somatic level and movement research, I have the luck of having a masters degree and different awards and nominations as a dancer and choreographer.
Today I see that I have danced and taught for big part of my whole life and yet I feel that I have just started.
In my practice I have been integrating various techniques and bringing the potential of dance to life.
If I ask myself between my name and my body, the second one is the dearest, and if you ask about my deepest interest in dancing and teaching the answer would be around living questions related to dance itself, to the presence and to the Big Mystery.
I hope through this illusion of you and I being separated, we can drop it, and go beyond our hanging names to explore the in-between field of existence to dance and be danced with and through the visible and invisible forces entangled at each single moment and find the way to be at the arch of beauty."
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For any enquiries, please contact Lillian Donnell at info@luminousflow.com.au
Date
Sunday 22 March 2026 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM (UTC+11)Location
Durrumbul Hall
16 Mud Brick Lane, Main Arm NSW 2482
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