Dance is really
a primary need,
like sleeping, eating
and taking a poop.
WHAT IS CONSCIOUS DANCE?
Conscious Dance is an expressive practice that is based on free movement.
It is a simple and powerful way to connect with yourself. It is a liberating dance that reactivates energy.
It is a medicine. It is a safe, non-competitive space in which you can explore yourself with others.
It is a space for listening and growth. It is an open space where music helps us to take a journey
with the most powerful tool we have: our bodies. Everyone is welcome!
5Rhythms, Open Floor, Soul Motion, Movement Medicine and Azul are all Conscious Dance practices with a common root: the 5Rhythms - Gabrielle Roth. All of the founders of these practices directly trained with Gabrielle and they have now created schools that carry on new modes of expression.
Photo by Jens Wazel
And there's more.
Conscious Dance has opened up to new territory.
Coaching, sacred sexuality, money, the menstrual cycle.
Here you will find a selection of recent teachers and practices
that allow us to move in new directions, with new tools,
toward new possibilities for growth.
WHO ARE WE?
Marcella (Soul Motion & 5Rhythms) and Nishta (Open Floor & Four ways to Freedom). A Bergamo woman living in Liguria and an American living in Tuscany. We met dancing in a 5Ritmi workshop. Movement has been our medicine, it is our path and it has brought us together. We both had a passion in common: to support all those who were about to embark on a path of inner growth and awakening the body through movement (including ourselves of course). And after traveling around the world, we wanted to do something here, in the country where we both live. And in 2015 another journey began, Conscious Dance Italy was born.
FOUNDERS - Nishta Matarese & Marcella Panseri
In the darkest moment of 2020, we asked Silvana to join the Conscious Dance Italy team. Often the 'enlightening' ideas come in the darkest moments. She has supported CDI from day one and our vision is in her DNA. She is the first teacher and mother of the Italian Movement Medicine team. Silvana comes from Pordenone, but her soul travels everywhere. To co-create the CDI dream she continues to promote, support the Italian community and offers a unifying vision for all the practices. She is precious to us and we are happy that her gifts, as a weaver of ideas, can help us grow and make this space even more nourishing.
COMMUNITY WEAVER - Silvana Rigobon
OUR MISSION
Conscious Dance Italy is a cultural resource, production team and collective where you can find
all the information on what is happening in Italy, by practices and certified teachers.
It does not claim to be all-encompassing of every form of movement.
We aim to be useful and to inspire all-bodies to join the dance revolution!
Andrea Juhan \ Open Floor founder \ Milano - 2019
Upcoming Workshops
LANGUAGE: The CDI Italian team offers regular classes (in-studio, online, outdoors) across Italy as well as special events and workshops. Most teachers speak English and many workshops and some classes are translated between both languages. Our offerings are listed in Italian and you will need to use a translator to read the descriptions unless explicitly listed in both languages. When in doubt contact the organizer directly. THANK YOU!
We are so happy you have found us and we look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful country!
