The QI DANCE PROJECT
Qi Dance is a contemporary practice based on dance improvisation techniques and qigong exercises. It is an exploration of body expression that emphasises inner presence and the capacity to co-create with others. This practice helps improve body structure and strength, tune into spontaneous movement, and increase emotional awareness, thus becoming a means to experience self-healing, and to improve the ability to connect and to create within a group.
Genesis
In 2005, courses of Contemporary Dance with Qigong techniques have been experimented at the University of Orleans, with Christophe Julien (dancer and teacher) and Marceau Chenault (Anthropologist, Choreographer and Qigong Teacher).
Movement Exploration workshop have started after 2007 in various dance Festival in France, with Marceau Chenault and Boris Trouplin (musician mixing traditional instruments and contemporary compositions). They have designed a specific training where people can explore the relations between inner breathing rhythms, group dynamics and the connection with musicians.
The Qi Dance Project have started in Shanghai, in 2010, with the collaboration of Ke Wen (leader of the center Les Temps du Corps) and Marceau Chenault. They have joined their respective research to design foundational materials for teaching-learning :
Fluid Body (meridian circulation), Yin-Yang Duo (synchronization with a partner), Fundamental movements (based on spirales forces).
Between 2013 and 2019, Qi Dance trainings have been lead at the Shanghai Qigong Research Institute with Marceau Chenault and Estel Vilar, translator and multi-disciplinary artist from Barcelona. As musician and dancer she contributes to the Qi Dance experience in blurring the limits between movement and sound, and with her emphasis on spontaneous creativity.They collaborate in developing their joint teaching-learning methodology and co-create performances involving dance, music and other media, with various artists based in Shanghai, Barcelona and Paris.
Since 2020, Qi Dance training are open in various cities in France,
through various associatons and netwroks of dancers, martial artists and practioners of energetic arts.
Today Qi Dance Project is still an open field of research on 'creativity' and 'human connexions'
working with spontaneous movement, collective improvisation, instant composition and fundamental techniques in energetic field.
Qi Dance is a contemporary practice based on dance improvisation techniques and qigong exercises. It is an exploration of body expression that emphasises inner presence and the capacity to co-create with others. This practice helps improve body structure and strength, tune into spontaneous movement, and increase emotional awareness, thus becoming a means to experience self-healing, and to improve the ability to connect and to create within a group.
Genesis
In 2005, courses of Contemporary Dance with Qigong techniques have been experimented at the University of Orleans, with Christophe Julien (dancer and teacher) and Marceau Chenault (Anthropologist, Choreographer and Qigong Teacher).
Movement Exploration workshop have started after 2007 in various dance Festival in France, with Marceau Chenault and Boris Trouplin (musician mixing traditional instruments and contemporary compositions). They have designed a specific training where people can explore the relations between inner breathing rhythms, group dynamics and the connection with musicians.
The Qi Dance Project have started in Shanghai, in 2010, with the collaboration of Ke Wen (leader of the center Les Temps du Corps) and Marceau Chenault. They have joined their respective research to design foundational materials for teaching-learning :
Fluid Body (meridian circulation), Yin-Yang Duo (synchronization with a partner), Fundamental movements (based on spirales forces).
Between 2013 and 2019, Qi Dance trainings have been lead at the Shanghai Qigong Research Institute with Marceau Chenault and Estel Vilar, translator and multi-disciplinary artist from Barcelona. As musician and dancer she contributes to the Qi Dance experience in blurring the limits between movement and sound, and with her emphasis on spontaneous creativity.They collaborate in developing their joint teaching-learning methodology and co-create performances involving dance, music and other media, with various artists based in Shanghai, Barcelona and Paris.
Since 2020, Qi Dance training are open in various cities in France,
through various associatons and netwroks of dancers, martial artists and practioners of energetic arts.
Today Qi Dance Project is still an open field of research on 'creativity' and 'human connexions'
working with spontaneous movement, collective improvisation, instant composition and fundamental techniques in energetic field.
