Ziya Azazi on BBC Persian, 2017 London, UK

, office@, , AIM & OBJECTIVES This workshop suggests a space for the participants to challenge their limits through whirling in single, couple or group forms; to stimulate their ability for the thrift of bodily energy; and through these abilities to reach their goal movement within their own genre, spending less energy, with a higher level of awareness. Whirling is not the main objective of this workshop. The greater goal is to improve one’s physical, emotional and mental awareness through whirling and the exercises prior to that. It leads the participants to perceive and accept what is befalling throughout whirling, and reach an innovative movement by means of whirling. Spinning with partner or group is absolutely an unique opportunity to discover about the reflexes and behaviours of the daily-self. Reaching the blurry state of spinning world means having an abstract adventure in physical, mental & emotional levels which causes enormous realisations and discoveries about the real-self. Understanding and implementing of all sensations leads to a healthier body, smarter mind and more intuitive spirit! Carrying or being carried is the fundamental action of our social reality! Experiencing it physically effects also the mind and the emotions. This might lead us in to new stages in life, harmonious our rhythm in time and reorganise our being as person! It offers much bigger mental/emotional/physical plasticity then we might think! METHODOLOGY First with stretching and breathing we enhance the concentration and prepare the body and mind to gain strength to push mental and physical limits. Then with floor work, body part & upside down exercises, basic acrobatics and improvisations we aim to strength the awareness of senses and systems in preparation for meeting the unknown arrangements to be encountered while whirling. Dervish in Progress: Further developments of physical, emotional and mental awareness are to be obtained in this step. Whirling first starts at the vertical level with & without Dervish Skirts. At the further steps repetitive movements are to be experienced at both vertical and horizontal levels. This step helps the participants to feel and record the conditions of their perception of space and body. This is a step where the participants in various aspects confront conditions that are not usual or accustomed. By accepting the unknown, the knowledge concerning awareness and ability for the thrift of bodily energy will expand. Dervish Tango: Here participants spin in couples our group to experience what means being with someone? In the extraordinary state of spinning world being in couples changes once again all perceptions about being in dialogue! There we start seeing clearly our intuitive & decided habits about our personality in relationships, where also we get the chance to refine, change, improve them! ZIYA AZAZI Azazi has been performing, creating & cooperating in around 50 and workshopping in 30 countries. But also lecturing in academic and non-academic settings (a.o. at Goldsmiths University; London/UK; Culture University Istanbul/TR; University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna/A; TEDx Talks, IKU/Istanbul/TR). Rounded average (last 10 years) per year 35 trips, 45 performances, 10 workshops, 14 countries, 1creation, 1,5 cooperations. , office@, ,