THE UPSTREAM RIVERS
PAST EVENTS & GALLERY
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June 2025
BETWEEN TIDES
Ocean Movement Art Residency
with Subtle Waters Team : Mar, Bethany, Jess and Kira
Inviting environmentalists, dancers, artists to come together for embodied art-action :
symbiosis and healing of humanity and nature from a sea bound perspective - embodying wisdom of water as the way forward.

SOMATIC FREEDIVING & DEEP WATER DANCE
CONTACT IMPROVISATION
PERFORMANCE ART MAKING-SHARING


Collaborator: Linh Trih, Sophie Garnir, Mav, Sima Ra, Themla Blue, Sergei Noway, Zhiwei Li
April 2025
UPON THE SHORES OF SILENCE
Contact Improv + Embodied Rituals
with Jess, Kira, Mar
4 Days Contemplative Contact Retreat in Nature, exploring wisdom of the body moving in silence - land, ocean and in between

Deep Ecology | Contemplative Dance | Authentic Movement | Water Dance | Contact Improvisation focused JAM.


Collaborator: Veronica Olariu

April 2025
DANCE ECOLOGY
Experimental Film Residency
with Jess and Mar

3 days of contact improvisation in nature film making, exploring dynamics of embodied-art visioning, collective improvisation, and creative camera work

Collaborator: Rudiger,
November 2024
BECOMING DOLPHIN
Freediving Immersion
with Jess
Physiology of the Freediving Body | Somatic Breath Practice | Water Dance Workshop & Jam | Sauna & Restorative bodywork
Learn about Freediving in an embodied, practical way.

Collaborator: Ruben Gapner
September 2024
OCEAN MOVEMENT ART RESIDENCY II
freediving | aquatic bodywork | land & water contact impro | ecosomatics | sound journeys | collective experiencing | movement labs & performances

Subtle Waters Team:
Bethany, Mar, Jess, Nathania, Kira

Collaborators:
Serafima, Thalia Laric, Ryan Jones Lee, Mav

Freedive Instructors team:
Juancho, Chiara Bussini, Natalie Rudman, Jess, Mar
September 2024
FREEDIVE ECO-SOMATICS RETREAT II
with Mar and Jess
Collaborator:
Danika - marine ecology education
Mav - Bodywork

Freedive Instructor Support :
Juancho, Danika, Natalie Rudman, Jess, Mar

May 2024
OCEAN MOVEMENT ART RESIDENCY I
Subtle Waters Team:
Bethany, Mar, Jess, Kira, Nathania

Collaborators:
Linh Trih, Paweł Kubiak, Ruben Gapner, Mav

Freedive Instructors Team:
Juancho, Yan, Mar, Jess
May 2024
FREEDIVE ECO-SOMATICS RETREAT I
with Mar and Jess
November 2023
OCEAN MOVEMENT COMMUNITY GATHERING
Subtle Waters Team:
Mar, Bethany, Jess, Nathania
October 2023
SUBTLE WATERS RETREAT
Subtle Waters Team:
Mar, Bethany, Jess, Nathania

Collaborator:
Julia, Mav, Sergei

Freedive Instructor Team:
Juancho, Yan, and Mar, Jess
September 2023
SUBTLE WATERS LAB
Subtle Waters Team: Mar, Bethany
Collaborator: Jesse Blue
Freedive Instructor Team: Junacho, Yan and Mar
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