Spirit Dance Practice - with Lilach Pnina Livne

The method offers new practices of dance, reflection & philosophy for New-Relations with our body, our image, with each other, with art concepts and with friendship which are based on softness, the possibility to be seen, safety and support.

A place to carry and to take care of our needs - to hold hands with the other, to practice our perception and our multi layered gaze, to try and touch the world - and let our most sensual logics to be free.

The practice helps us to further humanize the performative space and other relations we are practicing in our daily life.

You have 3 options to join the practice of Spirit Dance which is developed by Lilach Pnina Livne since 2012 and offering a new mixture between philosophy, dance, theory, choreography, guides to meet yourself and others.

Links of texts about the Spirit Dance practice:

https://www.impulstanz.com/en/workshops/id6572/
https://www.impulstanz.com/en/research/id4975/

1st option :

New format - Once a Month -

Join a big practice group who will be practicing at the end of each month through the whole 2025. 2 hours of practice, once a month, 12 times.

Dates:

30.1 - Thursday - 20:00-22:00 (Paris Tim Zone)

27.2 - Thursday - 20:00-22:00 (Paris Tim Zone)

27.3 - Thursday - 20:00-22:00 (Paris Tim Zone)

24.4 - Thursday - 20:00-22:00 (Paris Tim Zone)

29.5 - Thursday - 20:00-22:00 (Paris Tim Zone)

26.6 - Thursday - 20:00-22:00 (Paris Tim Zone)

31.7 - Thursday - 20:00-22:00 (Paris Tim Zone)

28.8 - Thursday - 20:00-22:00 (Paris Tim Zone)

25.9 - Thursday - 20:00-22:00 (Paris Tim Zone)

30.10 - Thursday - 20:00-22:00 (Paris Tim Zone)

27.11 - Thursday - 20:00-22:00 (Paris Tim Zone)

25.12 - Thursday - 20:00-22:00 (Paris Tim Zone)

Price: reduced price because it's a new format - 150 Euro for the whole 12 sessions.

* You buy in advance your spot for participating in the whole 12 sessions through the year.

* There is also the possibility to join a single practice. Price: 20 Euro

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2nd option:

New try-out of a special format -

What if you will be practicing the Spirit Dance in the mornings, twice a week, for one month? How it will support your day? Your art? your relations?

Join a one month try-out with a reduced price -

Starting February 2025 -

2 times a week

1h each morning

Tuesdays + Wednesdays

4.2 / 5.2

11.2 / 12.2

18.2 / 19.2

25.2 / 26.2

Hours: 9:00-10:00 (Paris Time Zone)

Price: 90 Euro

*reduced price for the 1st month of try-out

* Join this one month try-out practice. 2 times a week. 1h each session. experiencing the philosophy that the Spirit Dance practice is offering which holds in it a unique combination of dance & philosophy, of movement and talks, of independent power and a community of supportive eyes - softening all the existing relations.

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3rd option:

An in depth course of 8 meetings

Diving deep into the research & philosophy of the Spirit Dance Practice

For dancers, artists, choreographers, researchers etc

In depth course of the potential of the practice - from a need into a choreography, the dancer/performer perspectives, theory and practice, analyzing the art world while being an important critical participant in it, new relations between the score and the performative event, between the performer's world and the manifestation of the art, new modes of the dancer, a change in the starting point of the creation, new forms of choreography, different models and directions in the art and beyond.

2 hours each practice time

once a week

Mondays - 19:00-21:00 (Paris Time Zone)

February + March

3.2 / 10.2 / 17.2 / 24.2 / 3.3 / 10.3 / 17.3 /24.3

Price: 220 Euro

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About Lilach Pnina Livne:

Lilach Pnina Livne (b. 1986) is an artist, choreographer, dancer, organizer and researcher. Livne creates performative exhibitions and artistic actions that challenge the unconscious mechanism of image-creation made by spectators in an art space, reflecting how that same mechanism narrows our perception and ability to meet ‘the other’ as a multi-layered and complex individual. Working mainly with female performers, professional and non, Livne practices live experimentations in which human subjects act as the main material. As viewers gaze at these ‘art objects’ and their bodies in space, Livne creates choreographed conditions that give her performers tools to constantly resist becoming a mere object to be gazed at –morphing pre-defined scenes into unexpected humane moments of intimacy, care, friendship, randomness, choice, chaotic sexuality, inner-thoughts and self-reflection. Thus, creating new relations between viewers and participants, one that strives for a more equal and compassionate landscape.

Livne’s performative exhibitions, workshops, performances, practice, lectures, parties, labs, schools, rituals were presented in various artistic, educational and social platforms such as the 20th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; ImPulsTanz festival, Vienna; BlackBox Theater, Oslo; Bastille Design Center, Paris, Coventry University, UK; JUNE Gallery, Berlin; Goshka Macuga Studio, London; Monte Verita Center, Switzerland; Altered States Festival, The Hague; Salonul De Proiecte Gallery, Bucharest; Bikini Gallery, Basel; Publication of Livne's practice book "Prayer for the Abstract" at Circadian Publication, Berlin, etc.

In addition to Livne’s work with professional dancers and performers, she works with large groups of women and teenagers, including non-binaries and transgender persons, and works at At-Risk-Youth institutes - incorporating her artistic research of Seeing-Being-Seen into social work as well. In 2021, she founded Lilach Pnina Livne institution - a venue which functions as a studio—school—gallery.

Livne studied at the Choreography Department at Amsterdam School of the Arts (SNDO) and at the School of Experimental Dance (SEAD) in Salzburg, Austria. Later she studied Philosophy at Tel Aviv University (TAU), focusing on aesthetics, philosophy of religions and gender studies.