THE QI DANCE ADVENTURE
Qi Dance is a contemporary discipline 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.
Qi Dance started in 2010 with the collaboration of Ke Wen and Marceau Chenault, in Shanghai.
They have joined their respective research on movement to design three foundational materials for Qi Dance teaching-learning :
- "Fluid Body" (energy circulation through the body, the ground and the space)
- "Yin Yang Duo" (synchronization with a partner)
- "Fundamental movements" (techniques based on hips-spine-wrist connexion and spiral forces)
Ke Wen and her husband Dominique Cazais founded the center "Les Temps du Corps" in Paris in 1990. Today it is one of the most important training centers for qigong teachers in France. Aside from her qigong teaching, Ke Wen creates performances that blend qigong techniques, live music and dance improvisation; working with various artists who express their spirituality through art. In 2016 Ke Wen launched a Qi Dance training program in Paris.
Marceau Chenault, anthropologist and choreographer, leads workshops on "Movement exploration" since 2006 with his partner musician Boris Trouplin, in different festivals of France (Quartiers Libres, Bal de l'Europe). They designed a specific training where people can explore the relations between inner breathing rhythms, group dynamics and the connection with musicians.
Since 2013, Marceau leads Qi Dance and Qi Gong trainings at the Shanghai Qigong Research Institute with his life partner Estel Vilar, translator of Chinese language 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.
Today, Qi Dance is an open field of research on 'creativity' and 'human connexions' working with spontaneous movement, emotional gestures, contact and non-contact relations with partners, traditional meditative exercises, co-creative process, etc.
Qi Dance is a contemporary discipline 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.
Qi Dance started in 2010 with the collaboration of Ke Wen and Marceau Chenault, in Shanghai.
They have joined their respective research on movement to design three foundational materials for Qi Dance teaching-learning :
- "Fluid Body" (energy circulation through the body, the ground and the space)
- "Yin Yang Duo" (synchronization with a partner)
- "Fundamental movements" (techniques based on hips-spine-wrist connexion and spiral forces)
Ke Wen and her husband Dominique Cazais founded the center "Les Temps du Corps" in Paris in 1990. Today it is one of the most important training centers for qigong teachers in France. Aside from her qigong teaching, Ke Wen creates performances that blend qigong techniques, live music and dance improvisation; working with various artists who express their spirituality through art. In 2016 Ke Wen launched a Qi Dance training program in Paris.
Marceau Chenault, anthropologist and choreographer, leads workshops on "Movement exploration" since 2006 with his partner musician Boris Trouplin, in different festivals of France (Quartiers Libres, Bal de l'Europe). They designed a specific training where people can explore the relations between inner breathing rhythms, group dynamics and the connection with musicians.
Since 2013, Marceau leads Qi Dance and Qi Gong trainings at the Shanghai Qigong Research Institute with his life partner Estel Vilar, translator of Chinese language 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.
Today, Qi Dance is an open field of research on 'creativity' and 'human connexions' working with spontaneous movement, emotional gestures, contact and non-contact relations with partners, traditional meditative exercises, co-creative process, etc.