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embodied Rituals and Contact Improvisation
UPON THE SHORES OF SILENCE
nOV 11-14, 2025
BALI, INDONESIA
UPON THE SHORES
OF SILENCE
embodied Rituals &
Contact Improvisation
nOV 11-14, 2025
BALI, INDONESIA
Embodying Sounds of Nature
and Dancing The Unspeakable
wisdom of the body moving in silence - land, ocean and in between
invitation to all wild lovers of dance to come together in openness, and curiosity for the wonders of the living body and its surroundings, Exploring improvisation as a gateway to the subconscious - a ritual to retrieve deep, intuitive information for creative work.
[ 4 DAYS ]
CONTEMPLATIVE
CONTACT RETREAT
IN SILENCE & NATURE
*NOTE: This is not a Contact Improvisation workshop.
Previous experience in CI is recommended to join.
Registration Form
We will be exploring "The Shoreline" in its geographic, sensorial and poetic sense.
Shoreline holds the ancient conversation between the tides, and the eternal home-coming of sea to land.
Revealing our transient nature - reaching its curious invitation to the wild frontier of our crossing, merging, and becoming, at the state of improvisation.
We will be exploring "The Shoreline" in its geographic, sensorial and poetic sense.
Shoreline holds the ancient conversation between the tides, and the eternal home-coming of sea to land.
Revealing our transient nature - reaching its curious invitation to the wild frontier of our crossing, merging, and becoming, at the state of improvisation.
  • Collective Journey: What are the right ingredients of Togetherness ?

  • Inviting Silence: What if verbal communication is a way to protect ourselves from each other? It's a tool to communicate the other wise impossible.

  • Body As Extension of Earth: How to dance in nature, with nature and as nature ?
THE SCORE:
Ritual Making From the Emerging Unknown
HELPFUL TO KNOW:
  • This is not a silent event, but we are going to practice mostly in silence

  • Each day we will be practicing together around 6-7 hours, divided into 3 blocks. It will take place in both studio and surrounding nature. including being in the sea (close to shore)

  • Rooted in Deep Ecology, the practices can be recognised as Contemplative Dance, Authentic Movement, Water Dance and Contact Improvisation focused JAM.

  • Partial participation is not possible
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  • Hepin Jess

    Rooted in the ocean and in improvisational movement, Jess works with breath, attention, and deep listening as creative and relational practices. As a freediving instructor and multidisciplinary artist, she explores how water reshapes perception, softens control, and teaches trust. Through Subtle Waters Art Production, she weaves movement, somatic inquiry, and ecological sensitivity into spaces where the body becomes a site of reverence and dialogue with the living world.

  • Beta

    With a degree in Anthropology and a decade-long career in Synchronized Swimming, Beta found her way back to the water through Aquatic Bodywork.

    She is deeply interested in the collective deep care that water offers, exploring how movement in water can foster trust, connection, and restoration.

  • Mar

    Raised nomadically with 14 siblings by parents working in social activism, Mar is devoted to zero waste and sustainability. She is passionate about fostering environmental change through deepening our relationship with water—both within and around us.

  • Kira

    Kira works at the intersection of movement and performance, drawing from physical theatre, somatic awareness, and improvisation. She investigates how individual and collective creative strategies can shape meaningful artistic collaborations and support resilient cultural ecosystems.

  • Beta
    With a degree in Anthropology and a decade-long career in Synchronized Swimming, Beta found her way back to the water through Aquatic Bodywork. She is deeply interested in the collective deep care that water offers, exploring how movement in water can foster trust, connection, and restoration.
  • Mar
    Raised nomadically with 14 siblings by parents working in social activism, Mar is devoted to zero waste and sustainability. She is passionate about fostering environmental change through deepening our relationship with water—both within and around us.
  • Hepin Jess
    A dolphin from a Pacific Island, innovating with embodied poetry and integrating Buddhist philosophy. Jess is currently working on Subtle Waters Art Production, weaving movement, storytelling, and artistic creation.
  • Kira
    Kira works at the intersection of movement and performance, drawing from physical theatre, somatic awareness, and improvisation. She investigates how individual and collective creative strategies can shape meaningful artistic collaborations and support resilient cultural ecosystems.
MEMORY CAPSULE OF PAST EVENTS

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”


―“The Peace of Wild Things, Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

―“The Peace of Wild Things, Wendell Berry
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