Natalia Vasco - Somatic Workshop p2p

This workshop offers a sensory and physical exploration of absence, allowing participants to experience emotions and memories through the body rather than through rationalization. Through guided meditation, movement repetition, and automatic writing, we create a space to perceive how absence imprints itself on the body, how it transforms over time, and how it reveals itself in action.

Structure

• Introduction & warm-up: Brief presentation and body awareness exercises.

• Guided meditation: Connecting with a personal absence through sensory exploration.

• Movement creation: Developing a short movement phrase based on the meditation.

• Repetition (100 times): Observing how movement transforms over time.

• Automatic writing: Capturing sensations, emotions, and reflections through continuous writing.

• Closing reflection: Optional space for sharing insights.

Through embodied exploration, participants engage with memory and absence beyond words, allowing movement and time to reveal their own transformations.

Duration 90 min.

This workshop is part of the public program of the dance performance There’s something about yellow flowers. This workshop is sponsored by the Studierendenwerk OstNiedersachsen.

Natalia Vasco is an interdisciplinary artist and dramaturg with over 10 years in contemporary dance. She is completing a Master’s in Cultural Studies in Germany, focusing on cultural management. The project There is something about yellow flowers continues Penitente’s collective approach, developed with an international team from Italy, Germany, and Brazil, where collaboration is central to creation. This workshop is sponsored by the Studierendenwerk OstNiedersachsen.