GUTS
EYES
BONES
BOUND
ARIES
BONES | experiential anatomy
BOUNDARIES | radical self-care & consensual practices
GUTS | improvisation bare technique
EYES | gazed at as performance practice
9 month residential course in Athens/Greece
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
Sliding scale very early - very late tuition.
Please find details here.
APPLICATIONS & REGISTRATION
Applications are considered on a first come - first served basis.
The programme will accept 6-9 participants.
Fees cover tution only.
COCHLEA studia might bring participants intouch with the local artists-community
regarding housing and/or collaboration opportunities, depending on our resourses.
Participants are responsible for organising their travel,
persuing all legal documents where needed (visa) & securing their housing.
Tuition partial refunds after registration might be issued only under very exeptional circumstances.
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
mon 16 sept
online meeting & greeting | SNSKi participants & teachers closed groups
tue 17 sept
schedualed in-person private sessions
wed 18 sept -
thur 19 sept
schedualed in-person private sessions
fri 20 sept
SNSKi participants & teachers brunch
open classes slow marathon
open party
INDUCTION WEEK 16 - 20 sept (please see obove)
PERIOD A 23 sept - 1 nov (6 weeks)
week 1 | 23 - 28 sept | 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 2 | 30 - 4 oct | sonia ntova
10-12 classes | nomadic school of moving thought
12.20-3.30 workshop | journaling for dance-artists opening workshop
week 3 | 7 - 11 oct | 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 | 14 - 18 oct | fvi
10-12 classes | tbc
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | tbc
week 5 | 21 - 25 oct | iris nickolaou
10-12 classes | viewpoints
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | viewpoints expanded
week 6 | 28 - 1 nov | studio practice
HALF TERM BREAK 4 - 8 nov
PERIOD B 11 nov - 20 dec (6 weeks)
week 1 | 11 - 15 nov | natali mandila
10-12 classes | mechanotransaction physical training fascia spp
12.20-3.30 workshop | mechanotransaction creative practice fascia spp
week 2 | 18 - 22 nov | thalia ditsa
10-12 classes | body landscape butoh, qi, cst, mindfulness
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | relationscapes
week 3 | 25 - 29 nov | anastasio koukoutas & maria sideri
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | contemporary theory (title tbc)
week 4 | 2 - 6 dec | am
10-12 classes | tbc
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | tbc
week 5 | 9 - 13 dec | vitoria kotsalou
10-12 classes | practices (classes title tbc)
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | strategies (workshop title tbc)
week 6 | 16 - 20 dec | studio practice
WINTER BREAK 23 dec - 3 jan
PERIOD C 6 jan - 14 feb (6 weeks)
week 1 | 6 - 10 jan | ioanna palamidous & marina ierides
10-12 classes | franklin method
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | choreographic enviroments // choreographic bodies
week 2 | 13 - 17 jan | maria papadopoulou & nassia fourtouni
10-12 classes | the listening skin
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | the choreographic skin
week 3 | 20 - 24 jan | 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 | 27 - 31 jan| kitt johnson & polena kolia petersen
10-12 classes | open training
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | the planetary body
week 5 | 3 - 7 feb | androniki marathaki
10-12 classes | let's be comfortable in our own skin
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | being in question
week 6 | 10 - 14 feb | studio practice
DOUBLE HALF TERM BREAK 17 - 28 feb
PERIOD D 3 mar - 11 apr (6 weeks)
week 1 | 3 - 7 mar | ioanna & polyxeni thanou
10-12 classes | dynamic embodyment & bodymind dancing
laban, bartenieff, bmc
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | embodied designing
ecology, democracy, somatics
week 2 | 10 - 14 mar | selina papoutseli & petra söör
10-12 classes | bodyweather
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | the meteorological body
week 3 | 17 - 21 mar
10-12 classes | eve ganneau | feldenkrais into improvisation
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | anastasio koukoutas & maria sideri | theory
week 4 | 24 - 28 mar | 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 5 | 31 - 4 apr | katerina delakoura
10-12 classes | looking at the see classes
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | looking at the see workshop
week 6 | 7 - 11 apr | studio practice
SPRING BREAK 14 - 25 apr
PERIOD E 28 apr - 13 jun (7 weeks)
week 1 | 28 - 2 may | zoi demitriou
10-12 classes | strech & placement klein technique
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | dancing connections
week 2 | 5 - 9 may | selina papoutseli & polena kolia petersen
10-12 classes | bodyweather
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | the permiable body
week 3 | 12 - 16 may | 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 4 | 19 - 23 may | sonia ntova
10-12 classes | nomadic school of moving thought
12.20-3.30 workshop | journaling for dance-artists closing workshop
week 5 | 26 - 30 may | anna tzakou
10-12 classes | contemplative dance practice
12.30 - 3.30 workshop | geopoetics
week 6 | 2 - 6 june | studio practice
week 7 | 9 - 13 june | open studio sharings
IMAGINE a dance-program where technique is actually based on human anatomy, proprioception, imagination, motivation, availability, efficiency, and methods that are internationally acclaimed and systematically updated by teacher associations. Imaging a dance-program that embraces agency, where mid-career & less experienced dance-artists are supported to bloom in their own pace along each-other. Imaging a year in central Athens, 5min from the Lycabettus forest hill, on our lovely solid, unfinished, oak-wood floor.
Imaging GUTS | EYES | BONES | BOUNDARIES [former SYNASKi d|intensifying], a nine-month residencial international course, organised for the 6th year by COCHLEA res in central Athens/Greece, organised in five accumulative moduls on that connect somatic hands-on practices, gender and contemporary choreographic practices
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, Body-Mind Centering (SME), Contact Improvisation, Contemplative Dance Practice, Cranial-Sacral Therapy, SPP Fascia, Feldenkrais Method, Franklin Method, Klein Technique, Rolfing Structural Integration, Skinner Releasing Technique, Viewpoints, Body-Weather, as well as dramaturgy, improvisation, relational choreography strategies, and more.
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