Dance video
Summer 2024, Alentejo (Portugal)
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cleansing
illuminating
dreaming
a poetic journey with voice activation, dance and meditation
with Zsofi and Anaïs
Friday 31st of January
5-8pm
Monte Maravilhas
São Martinho das Amoreiras
On the night before Imbolc, the return of the light, we invite you to pause together.
To soften and deepen our listening and sensitivity.
Letting our breath guides us, letting our voice vibrate us.
Zsofi will guide us through voice activation and a guided micro dance around the 7 main chakras to cleanse and energizing our body. Then Anaïs will offer a poetic soundscape to hold each of us into our unique inner journey. Soft & dreamy. We will close by meditating together. To land back in consciousness and connection.
Reservation necessary
Limited spots to ensure cosyness
Energy exchange : 20-40€*
*contact us if you experience financial scarcity
Anaïs
+33782269919 / +351966486923
anaistamen.com
soundcloud.com/anais_openhearts
Zsofi
+36204635220
matanamusic.com youtu.be/16ki4Hky_Zo
About us:
Zsofi is a massage & dance therapist, aquatic bodyworker and musician. She has more than 15 years of practice with the healing aspects of the sounds and loves to create soundscapes for CI dance workshops. She has been the collaborator of Shai Dayan for Voice Being (the school of self-inquiry through voice). In the last years Zsofi is researching the combination of aquatic body work with voice activation work.
Anaïs is a movement researcher active in Alentejo since 2017 who loves escorting beings on their path to presence and authenticity through movement enquiry, dance, body work and soul care. She is known for her eclectic soundscapes and her deep, brave & free dance spaces. Anaïs is devoted to the heart, the wilderness and untamed feral expressions. Certified Open Floor teacher. Shape-shifter, writer, tree planter, oracle.
Looking forward to sharing this space with you!
PULSE
video by Solvita Sofi
PULSE
movement language & creation
Monday morning 10-12
from the 30/09
Espaço Movimento
São Luis
with Louise Chardon & Anaïs Tamen
in alternate dancing dialogue & creation
It’s for you if :
you wish to unfold further your movement skills and creative potential, and are interested to relate to the cellular/collective aspect of dance/movement.
What to expect :
an alternance of teaching and research.
Every other Monday, Louise will teach Motional : a choreographic language she developed.
And every other Monday, Anaïs will offer choreographic teasers and scores for you to explore and embody, appropriate what you learned with Louise.
What is Motional :
Motional addresses the most physical as well as the most vibrational aspects of movement. It approaches the body as a genuine and sensitive landscape, rooted into breath, permeated by resonances, and immersed into connectivity. We dance the depth of bones, folds of flesh, layers of skin and all embodied poetics.
space limited
50€/month (= 4 session = 12,5€/session)
15-20€ drop-in
More info about us
Louise : amandorla.pt
Anaïs : anaistamen.com
Booking
READY TO BOOK ? Please fill this form. If you don’t hear back from us within 48h, please contact us by other channels, to make sure your answer was not lost 
Contact
Louise : amandorla.pt
+351910518101
chardon.lou@gmail.com
Anaïs : anaistamen.com+33782269919
±351966486923
anais@anaistamen.com
METAMORPHOSIS – online dance space
METAMORPHOSIS
authentic body poetry ritual
a weekly online inner space ritual (4 sessions)
held by Villy Tichkova & Anaïs Tamen
March: 12th, 19th, 26th
April : 2nd
Online 9.30-11.00 GMT (UK/PT)
You can check your local time here : Time Zone Converter
Open to all body-souls who enjoy exploring movement and words.
No pre-requisite
Come if you feel moved :
To dance, to write, to draw
To feel your heart beat
To peel layers & explore your masks
To nourish loving kindness,
and a sense of joy and ease in the different layers of your being
Registration : please fill the form here below.
If you have any question, please email us : vtich@icloud.com and/or anais@anaistamen.com
Villy and Anaïs are both Open Floor Teachers, lovers of words and therapists (with homeopathy for Villy, and with soul and body work for Anaïs).
Energy exchange :
Please select the most fitted amount according to your financial reality. Contact us if you need clarity or assistance.
Price for 4 sessions:
– 80€ – Abundance – you feel it!
– 60-70€ -Ensure our work is sustainable so we can live from it.
– 50€ – Supported by the dancing community (you live on irregular low local incomes).
Drop-in: 20€
Please note that the last session on the 2nd of April is not open to drop-in.
How to pay? When you register we will send you our bank details / Paypal / Wise.
“I want to express my gratitude and wonder on how deep this session was. The texture of the music, the expertise and skills, the instructions you gave with the music… It was so progressive and I got into such a deep place, I never been there, really. it was amazingly healing. I was able to laugh, to cry and to release things I had never been able to. It was really shamanic work of immense quality and depth.”
– METAMORPHOSIS’ participant, October 2024.
“It’s unique what you do and each time it’s different, which is really great, it’s always new. I want to continue!”
– METAMORPHOSIS’ participant, October 2024.
About Villy :
Villy is fascinated with paradoxes, her favourite – the conscious wild leap between identities and forms. She hunts poems for breakfast, lunches on the boundaries of the unknown, and for dinner she dances and digs into the hidden light of the night.
Villy holds a master degree in Creative Writing.
villytichkova.com
About Anaïs :
Anaïs is a shape shifter, a dreamer, who loves to explore the space in between realms. A playful lover of wilderness, birds, trees, the invisible & the unnamed. A vigil and tender of heart-soul subtleties & feral expressions.
Anaïs holds space for movement explorations since 2007, in nature, online, in closed spaces, for deep-diving dance ceremonies.
anaistamen.com
soundcloud.com/anais_openhearts
Looking forward to dancing & exploring with you !
Registration
Please fill in your details below.
If you have any question or if you don’t hear from us after 2 days, please email us : vtich@icloud.com and/or anais@anaistamen.com
Bring your friends along!
Grief Ritual – online
Grief ritual in movement
Online
Friday 27.09
10am-12 BST (Lisbon/London time)
A dedicated held time for you to grieve and praise, to mourn and dance all the colours stirred and revealed.
Whether you are grieving the state of the world, someone dear to your heart, honouring a gate in your life,… there is place for you and your emotions.
We will circle together, honouring individual and collective grief, with emphasis on body-wisdom and presence, more than storytelling.
What to expect : movements and dance, with and without music, guided and free, some sounding, some journaling, some humour too. Lots of space for your own process and rhythm.
Blending contemplative practices, Authentic Movement and Open Floor movement practice, to create a safe explorative container.
With gentleness, loving kindness and reverence for what is.
Reservations : anais@anaistamen.com or telegram @openheartsdance (early reservations are always very appreciated).
Heart gift : 15-25€ or swap.
If you experience financial scarcity, please contact me and feel welcome for a smaller contribution.
What to bring :
- Water to drink
- Your journal if you have one, some paper, a pen, some colours
- Any comforting object (special blanket, pillow, precious stone to hold in your hand, etc…).
- Elements of nature – more info about that when you register (so don’t wait for the last minute ! )
Preparing your dance space :
You will need :
- A space vast enough to move in the comfort of your home, in nature, or any other undisturbed safe place
- A computer. It’s much better to connect via your computer than your phone to have access to all the features of Zoom. Phone is ok if that’s what you have access to.
- A good soundbox, sound-system, or wireless headphones
- Comfy layers of clothes you enjoy to move in and with.
Looking forward to sharing this space with you.
Dancescapes
Here a selection of dancescapes for you to enjoy.
More sets are available on Souncloud
Open Hearts Dance Soundspaces
Short Daily Mix for Home Practice
DJ.U.Me sets
BODYSILK
BUTOH EXPLORATION
Guided version
Prepare a nice dancing spot for yourself, where you feel safe and comfy, play this track and explore. Repeat as much as you like.
Music : Richard Skelton – The Complete Landings
02 Noon Hill Wood
04 Threads Over The River
Kit for autonomous research
If you don’t like to be guided, here is a music-only track and the text of the Butoh-Fu (danced invitation) :
BODYSILK
you are silk
a spider is stretching you very slowly
in the space
each movement leaves a silver trace in the space
as you reach the end
you roll yourself back into a cocoon
in the cocoon you become an unborn human baby
you discover your limbs, your mouths, your hands, the sole of your foot
in the space
your hands discover your face for the first time
your face is ancient
you feel time
you feel all your life under your hands
your hands explore your body
hold, rest, feel
they perform their own ritual of honoring time
on your body
honoring your life
Bodypoem
Spontaneous solo home dance practice + spoken words.
These words emerged during a dance & poetry session held by Villy Tichkova.
I am not I
I am it
the infinite field of grasshoppers
the infinite ripples of water circles
the infinite song in your mouth
I am it
the wind
the grasshopper
the pebble
I am it
your breathe
my breathe
the eyelids of my babies
opening to the world
the wolf
the deer
the gold
I am it
the unspoken
the bare truth
the raw light of love
I am it
your no
my yes
and everything in between
(25th March 2024)
____________________________
My skin is the sky*
an infinite shadow of dust, leaves and pebbles. Some feathers maybe. Fallen grace in the absence of gaze. I would remember the sound of joy if you would scream my name.
(…)
Home. Nest. My skin as a soft nest for you for me.
(…)
LAUGHING EMPTY.
LOVING EMPTY.
FUCKING UNDERSKIN TATTOOS.
FUCKING UNDERSKIN TATOOS.
(…)
I wish you could witness the gold on my heart skin.
(25th March 2024)
Notes :
* this sentence is not from me
** “underskin tatooes” is a reference to Audre Lorde in “Zami, a new spelling of my name”, who describes the memory of her lover as emotional tattoos left on her skin forever.
WOMB WISDOM
WOMB WISDOM
Unfurling motherhood stories
with Anaïs Tamen & Jade Hamilton
Wednesday 29th of November
10am – 2pm (+ post-space until 3pm)
Monte Maravilhas
São Martinho
We invite you to dive into your womb*, hearing her wisdom and memories.
Exploring and allowing ALL of your stories around motherhood, conception, pregnancy, birth, loss and health.
A 4 hour cocoon for you to be held and witnessed, as you are.
Through body-based practices, we will guide you to sound, move and speak out what rises in you, in the now, from your depths.
Reservation necessary via : @jadehamilton+351963786506
@openheartsdance+351966486923
Energy exchange : 30-50€
More about us :
instagram.com/iamjadehamilton
facebook.com/jade.hamilton.988
anaistamen.com
Artwork : Ashley Blanton
* this space is also open to trans-womyn, non-binary AFAB, and womyn who had hysterectomy.
Bela Escuridão
Rituais-performance de luto com dança e poesia
