FULL DROP into the Body / Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir

This workshop is an introduction to the sensation and state-oriented practice Full Drop into the Body. A practice which Icelandic choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir has been developing since 2010 alongside and in service of her performance works. Workshop is a part of Side Step Festival. The practice focuses on deep tissue release through visualisation meditations and verbal dialoging aiming to guide participants towards a so called FULL DROP into the Body, or a fully surrendered and released body state. From where the developing of heightened inner listening and awareness of the multiple autonomous systems and rhythms of the body begins. How to be guided and moved by them and experience the various altered physical states that accommodate this type of inner listening. By fully dropping into the body and entering a meditative space where time ceases to exist, conditions have been created to release self-manipulation and control and allow active intentions to empty out. Through new subjective sensorial experiences unravelling, what was formerly unconscious becomes conscious, increasing awareness of the current as well as immanent inner states of each person. While the practice itself is gentle, the decision to let go of control and enter into the unknown, not yet discovered and unconscious parts of yourself is profound. In the greater context, the workshop offers an alternative way of approaching the body and those who work with it on a professional level, and creates a space for de-conditioning formerly imprinted body memory, both motoric and in the form of memories, through releasing the tissue on all levels. A part of this work is thus as well releasing the professional dancer’s ‘outside eye’ that observes, judges and separates the dancer from the inner experience, and to practice connecting to and becoming conscious of that which goes on within, beyond the conditioned body memory. This workshop is for dance professionals and those in professional studies and it is in English.