ΣΥΝΑΣΚί d|intensifying
At COCHLEA studia we are delighted to announce SYNASKi 2024-25 detailed calander & content. Application are now open on a very early - very late bird sliding tuition scale, starting at 3.300e for applications received by May 15th, and rising 10% monthly, up to 4.850e for applications received after August 15th (please see details below), with greek-speaking practicioners applying from May 15th onwards receiving an extra 10% discount.
WHAT TO EXPECT
SYNASKi d|intensifying • choreographic practices | certified movement pedagogies | anatomy is a year-long international course, organised for the 5th year by COCHLEA res in central Athens/Greece, including daily certified-practices morning classes (10am-12), followed by making & researching strategies workshops (12.30-3.30pm), taught in english, by renown members of the greek & european dance-artists community, including certified teachers of the Alexander Technique into Improvisation & hands-on practices, Body-Mind Centering (SME), Contact Improvisation, Contemplative Dance Practice, Cranial-Sacral Therapy based partnerwork, SPP Fascia into training, Feldenkrais Method, Franklin Method, Klein Technique, Rolfing Structural Integration, Skinner Releasing Technique, Viewpoints, Body-Weather, as well as dramaturgy, relational choreography strategies, and more.
The programme is currated and supervised by Georgia Paizi, Alexander Technique teacher (2017), Skinner Releasing teacher (2024), and one of the very few dance professionals in Europe training as an Intimacy Choreographer (Level 3/4). More about Georgia here.
WHO IS THIS FOR
Running from September 2024 to June 2025, SYNASKi is a unique opportunity for young & mid-career artists to deepen their embodied research, dive within experiential anatomy, and explore connections between organic learning pedagogies, performing practices, and dramaturgy & theory. SYNASKi offers an empowering environment and nurishing continuety for those taking a break out of formal learning, preparing their BA, MA or PhD proposal, aspiring to create a journal-portfolio, navigating a self-directed project, as well as performing- and/or visual- arts professionals and/or hands-on practitioners interested in rooting their practice within the wider field of organic learning methods and self-care practices for the performing arts (somatics).
EXTRAS
This year’s closed group (estimated 6-9 participants) follow 10am - 3pm daily programme, receive personalised feedback as well as group & individual mentoring sessions, and have access to the studio for integrating, practicing & sharing.
Book your space now & receive access to the COCHLEA studia Performers' Development afternoon zone (Mon-Fri 6-8pm), including Guts | Eyes | Bones | Boundaries movement, anatomy, hands-on & consent training courses, Spoken Word workshop (taught in greek), Skinner Releasing Technique weekly class, Open Training weekly class, Guest Choreographer’s Lab, and Dramaturgy Lab. Early bird applicants join two afternoon workshops tuition free, as well as 30% off all other events at our premises. Get intouch for more info.
PROGRAMME DETAILS please see below
including half-term breaks, studio practice intervals,
and teaching-artists workshops organised termly
TUITION
Applications accepted before 01 May: 3000euro
Applications accepted after 1 May
will gradually raise to 4850euro (10% monthly rise)
Please find details here.
APPLICATIONS & REGISTRATIONS
Applications are considered on a first come - first served basis.
The programme will accept 6-9 participants.
PROGRAMME 2024-2025
although this is the final calendar,
including programme content and breaking dates,
secondary changes, ex. week-swaps between workshops, are expected to occur
INDUCTION WEEK 16 - 20 sept (tbc)
PERIOD A 23 sept - 1 nov (6 weeks)
week 1 sonia ntova
10-12 classes | nomadic school of moving thought
12.20-3.30 workshop | journaling for dance-artists opening workshop
week 2 georgia paizi
10-12 classes | skinner releasing technique classes 1-5
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | creative practice in the rural (lycabettus hill forest)
week 3 selina papoutseli
10-12 classes | muscles, bones, organs
bmc inspired experiential anatomy classes
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | muscles, bones, organs
bmc inspired experiential anatomy w/s
week 4 nassia fourtouni
10-12 classes | feldenkrais method
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | the choreographic skin
week 5 androniki marathaki
10-12 classes | let's be comfortable in our own skin
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | being in question
week 6 studio practice
HALF TERM BREAK 4 - 8 nov
PERIOD B 11 nov - 20 dec (6 weeks)
week 1 jitsa konstantoudaki & ellie parakente
10-12 classes | integrating somatics & contact improvisation dpt, bmc, ci
12.20-3.30 workshop | contact improvisation performing practice underscore
week 2 georgia paizi
10-12 classes | guts eyes bones boundaries
alexander technique, hands-on, dance-practice
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | the artisan anatomist clay, bean-bag, muscle
week 3 anastasio koukoutas & maria sideri
10-12 classes | contemporary theory (title tbc)
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | contemporary theory (title tbc)
week 4 ioanna palamidous & marina ierides
10-12 classes | franklin method
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | choreographic enviroments // choreographic bodies
week 5 zoe demitriou
10-12 classes | strech & placement klein technique
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | dancing connections
week 6 studio practice
WINTER BREAK 23 dec - 3 jan
PERIOD C 6 jan - 14 feb (6 weeks)
week 1 natali mandila
10-12 classes | mechanotransaction physical training fascia spp
12.20-3.30 workshop | mechanotransaction creative practice fascia spp
week 2 thalia ditsa
10-12 classes | body landscape butoh, qi, cst, mindfulness
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | relationscapes
week 3 vasiliki tsagkari
10-12 classes | skinner releasing technique classes 6-10
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | creative practice in the rural (lycabettus hill forest)
week 4 selina papoutseli & petra söör
10-12 classes | bodyweather
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | the untamed body
week 5 katerina delakoura
10-12 classes | looking at the see classes
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | looking at the see workshop
week 6 studio practice
DOUBLE HALF TERM BREAK 17 - 28 feb
PERIOD D 3 mar - 11 apr (6 weeks)
week 1 vanio papadeli
10-12 classes | writing the body in plasticity
12.20-3.30 workshop | waves of embodied memory heart, spine, mouth
week 2 georgia paizi
10-12 classes | guts eyes bones boundaries
alexander technique, hands-on, dance-practice
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | the artisan anatomist clay, bean-bags, knitts
week 3 anastasio koukoutas & maria sideri
10-12 classes | contemporary theory (title tbc)
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | contemporary theory (title tbc)
week 4 kitt johnson & polena kolia petersen
10-12 classes | bodyweather
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | the planetary body
week 5 vitoria kotsalou
10-12 classes | practices (classes title tbc)
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | strategies (workshop title tbc)
week 6 studio practice
SPRING BREAK 14 - 25 apr
PERIOD E 28 apr - 13 jun (7 weeks)
week 1 selina papoutseli & polena kolia petersen
10-12 classes | bodyweather
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | the permiable body
week 2 dafne stefanou
10-12 classes | skinner releasing technique classes 11-15
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | creative practice in the rural (lycabettus hill forest)
week 3 ioanna & polyxeni thanou
10-12 classes | dynamic embodyment & bodymind dancing
laban, bartenieff, bmc
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | embodied designing
ecology, democracy, somatics
week 4 anna tzakou
10-12 classes | contemplative dance practice
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | geopoetics
week 5 sonia ntova
10-12 classes | nomadic school of moving thought
12.20-3.30 workshop | journaling for dance-artists closing workshop
week 6 studio practice
week 7 open studio sharings
PERFORMERS' DEVELOPMENT evening workshops (tbc)
MONDAYS 6-8.30pm
spoken word practices for dancers (taught in greek)
aris balis
TUESDAYS 6-8.30pm
guts eyes bones boundries | alexander technique, hands-on, dance-practice, anatomy
georgia paizi
THURSDAYS 6-8pm
skinner releasing technique | classes 1-15
vassiliki tsagkari, georgia paizi, dafni stefanou & guests
FRIDAYS 6-8pm
choreographer's lab | aris & martha | vitoria kotsalou | despina crezia sanida
dramaturg's lab | anastasios koukoutas | tbc | tbc
At COCHLEA studia we recognize the systemic inequalities within which we survive and through which we also often benefit. Through our working and collaborative relationships, through the content of our programmes, but also with our daily behavior, it is our constant aim to actively contribute to the deconstruction of the ways in which cultural representations, public space, working conditions, but and individual behaviors reproduce these inequalities. It is our priority that our spaces remain safe, accessible and inclusive spaces for both working people and people attending our classes and performances. Harassing behaviors, insults, and micro-aggressions in the spectrum of gender, racism and/or ablism are not tolerated. If you have received or observed any such behavior in our studio or living room, please speak to us immediately, or write to us on facebook.com/cochleastudio