sensual athletic raving

12.12. 2026

2.30-5.30 PM

OPEN LEVEL - ALL BODIES WELCOME

SensualAthleticRaving fuses deep body awareness, raw physicality, sensitivity and high energetic states. Through guided improvisational scores and somatic exploration, we tap into the body's sensual intelligence, meet our inner athlete - the space where presence and discipline meets abandon - and movement becomes embodied dreaming

sensual athletic raving

In the beginning of the session, we are bringing attention and focus to warming up the physical body, the site of our creativity and expression. The warm up is designed to open and bring flow to the body and to access varied physical-energetic states.Through embodied practices we open layers of sensitivity and perception that connect us in new ways with our internal and external environments. Attuned to these ever renewing streams of sensation, we activate our inner athlete, a presence of full commitment of spirit, heart and bodymind with which we continue to open up our physical energy and enter deeper into the flow of our dancing. Grounded and present in the senses and sensitivity, we hone our creativity on the dance floor. We enter the state of rave, a dream-like perceptive state transcending ordinary boundaries where new levels of imagination open as we ride the spectrum of our physical energy. As the creative agents of our process, we continuously choose how we relate to the music, the space and the body of the collective, expressing the unfolding potential of each moment.

Over the course of the workshop, a creative somatic process unfolds in connecting with sound and spaces- inner body / interpersonal space / collective space / universal space. In a playful way we devise choreographic situations in which we explore moving through these different, layered spaces and perceptive states. In that framework we develop our compositional sense deriving from an understanding that in our sensory experience everything is relational-how dramatic tension lives in the principles of contrast,polarity & unity and how that allows our dancing bodies to inhabit and morph into a wide scope of expressions.

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Tanja Saban

is a dancer, choreographer Gaga teacher and somatic movement coach. She is co-foundress of D’FRAC, a platform for immersive dance experiences oscillating between club culture, performance and somatics. The heart of her artistic solo practice, g e s c h oe p f, is an ongoing research of the body in motion - a space of dreaming awake and radical imagination in the unfolding of sensory intelligence. Evolving around deep listening practices with the more-than-human world and mythology, she collaboratively develops works at the intersection of sound, dance, science and new technologies. THIRD SPACE LAB is her platform where she conducts an ongoing research in spatial sound and dance and the practice of sonic somatics.

www.geschoepf.xyz

@tanjasaban