Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Javier Cura is passionate about physical movement. Convinced that our lack of movement is at the root of many of our illnesses, he has created The Ecological Body. The purpose is to raise awareness of our movement needs and to impulse changes in our personal habitats, our cities, our food production, our consumer practices, our education and health system. Besides his work in health and wellness, his experience as a visual artist, Theatre director and a bachelor in modern literature has enabled him to become a demonstrated coach in leadership, communication and group dynamics.
Our aim is to bring about an awareness with the purpose of empowering ourselves through the joy of movement. As a corpus of practices we use a variety of elements ranging from Tai Chi, to Contact Improvisation, Tango and Physical theatre. Tai chi provides dynamic grounding and softness. Contact and Tango: the possibility to relate with others via music, touch and play. And Physical theatre proposals will provide possibilities of affirmative expression and creativity. To read and analyze our practice, we will bring together elements from Biomechanics, Ecology and Bioenergetics. From these perspectives we will ask ourselves how our movements affect our biology? What could be the consequences in short and long term forms of specific movements? We want to become movement gatherers so as to track the consequences of what we physically do in our muscles, bones, tendons, emotions, brains, society and Nature. We want to trace the continuum between a physical movement and its progressive echoes.