Béatrice Balcou invites Yael Davids to give a Feldenkrais lesson in the exhibition.

The Feldenkrais Method is a system of body movement that aimed at improving human functioning by increasing self-awareness through movement.

Biography

Yael Davids (1968) examines the capacities in which the body operates as a documentary vessel: as much a registry of the present, intrinsically connected to collective heritage and political narratives, as it is a receptacle in which a private biography is compacted and a finite, unique voice is contoured. By extending the research to the institutional framework of pedagogy, the forthcoming phase in the trajectory places emphasis on locating a connection between established systems of pedagogy and hermeneutic methods of knowledge production. Here, the question posed is how to integrate (self-)awareness around limitations within a pedagogical context and how can both student and teacher reorientate the value placed on limitations? How can the perceived limitation acquire a certain legibility that like a compass may reveal an alternative route towards (self-)understanding?

Davids studied visual arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, sculpture at the Pratt Institute in New York and choreography and dance education at the Remscheid Akademie in Remscheid. Education for Feldenkrais practitioner she achieved at International Feldenkrais training edcuation, Neve-Shalom, Istituto di formazione Feldenkrais, Feldenkrais - Awareness Through Movement, Milano.Amsterdam International Feldenkrais® Teacher Training.

Practical information

Date: Saturday, July 5th
The doors open at 11:30 and the session starts at 12:00. The duration of the session is about one hour maximum.
Please arrive on time to respect the beginning of the session and install yourself confortably.
The session will be held in english

Please bring with you
Confortable, warm clothe, (since the lesson is done by lying on the floor it might get fresh)
Matrass or blanket to lay down comfortably (optional - a shwaal or fabric to lay on it )

The session is (free) upon registration and has a limited capacity.
Register here

We kindly ask you to cancel in registration if you cannot attend the session anymore.