Contact: Untangled is a cycle focusing on movement in couples and connection combining the fundamentals of contact improvisation and shibari.
In this cycle, we will explore how to move with another body, share our weight, learn how to treat and manipulate the human body in a way that creates trust and builds communication through physical exercises in couples and in groups. Exploring human mechanics and adding rope as an extension of the possibilities we can play with, we will expand our perception of movement and understand those complex systems created when moving together.
We will work both in technicality with fun exercises and in improvisation with guided tasks, we will focus both in safety and creativity diving into the basic tools of human connection. We will learn how to fly, let go and trust· how to trust ourselves into supporting, guiding, communicating and allowing, as well as learning how to trust another person into supporting us, guiding us and effectively communicating with us. The cycle aims to provide inspiration about how to create a fun and safe environment to move together touching physicality, mentality and therapeutic qualities of collaborative movement.
Whether you have a background in contact or not, whether you have an experience in shibari or not the class welcomes a high level of curiosity regardless of the level of familiarity with its disciplines. We will begin with the basics of moving together and then add rope in specific classes as an extra layer to challenge our imagination, get inspired from its mechanics and focus on expansion rather than restriction. Focusing on qualities rather than performance, the class aims to allow every individual to build their own intention, physical, therapeutic or explorational and choose the level of intensity and complexity they are familiar with.
Grab your comfy clothes and hit the place alone or with a partner. For more details or questions don't hesitate to dm us!
When: every Sunday, from 19:30 to 21:00
Where: AthenShibari place, Mezonos 68, Metaxourgeio
Cost: 20 euros for drop in, 60 euros for all classes
About the presenter:
Marina Sasli is an artist born in Chania, currently based in Athens. She studied dance and since she graduated, she has found herself working around performing arts and experimenting with movement impro, physical theater, stage lighting, design and photography. She has worked as a dancer in different productions, she has created her own performative pieces and has worked in various research projects. She is a founding member of Fa art collective, with whom she has presented two performances as a co-creator. In 2022, she started working with Cc Mar on “Buddies Experiments” research, an independent project about movement and sound possibilities in doubles and groups. Building their methodology, four different cycles of workshops had occurred in Athens and Malta, with the last taking place in September 2024. She first met Shibari in 2022 and since then she has been collaborating with Athenshibari in classes and research rehearsals. Her classes of “Contact: Untangled” are drawing inspiration from Buddies’ Experiments methodology and her experience and excitement about rope as a connecting material.