Baby & Kids Body-Mind Dancing | Do Common Programme

September 23 | Space AND Lab

Baby & Kids Body-Mind-Mind Dancing

with Angela Guerreiro

• Babies up to 36 months with mothers, fathers and/or caregiver(s):10 am to 11:30 am (Initial 30 minutes for arrival and setting + 1 hour of workshop)
• Children 3 to 6 years old: 3pm to 4pm
• Value: 6€ per baby/child (tickets below)

• Please bring water and comfortable clothing to move around without restrictions, no necklaces, jewelry or belts.
• Bring the baby's blanket/towel, one or two favorite objects and whatever else the baby or child may need.
• Breaks are taken whenever necessary.

In the Baby/Kids Body-Mind Dancing Courses (Ba/KiBoMiDa), there is a dance between mother, father and/or caregiver(s) and the baby, a non-verbal reciprocity conceived through movement. In these courses, the parents and/or caregiver(s) experience the baby's movements and can experience how babies react to the world around them. During this experience, they become aware of the different stimuli provided to the little ones, through people, the ambient space that surrounds them, touch and sensations. Sharing a pre-verbal world, through breathing, rolling, crawling and crawling, learning to be here and now. We will understand how this new world for babies is both exciting and exhausting, because exploring the world is indeed hard and tiring work. Babies move as a whole, united in their body-mind and set out to discover those close to them, as well as the surrounding space. Developing sensory and motor skills through movement and experience, as movement plays a role in increasing awareness, self, attention, memory, perception, orientation, affect, and social and cognitive skills . Baby crawling, for example, activates the thalamic area of the brain, the so-called "Gateway to Consciousness". An important role of the thalamus is to support motor and speech systems. That's why it's essential to let babies experience the floor, as well as toys and objects that stimulate the development of the baby's sensory and motor skills. Whenever possible, avoid the use of prams and observe when the baby begins to feel uncomfortable being in the same position that does not allow movement and physical and emotional expression.

But the main objective is to have fun, let's dance, lying down, standing or sitting, always in physical contact with our babies - in different rhythms from pop to classical - if you want, bring your favorite music.

Come and participate in this dancing experience for the whole family.

About BaBoMiDa - Baby Body-Mind Dancing:

Started byAngela Guerreiro, Baby Mind-Body Dance - DaMeCoBebé is a new branch of Dynamic Embodiment™, a Movement system pioneered by Dr. Martha Eddy, and is part of the field of Somatic Movement Education and Therapy. Dynamic Embodiment© is a form of somatic education and movement therapy that integrates skillful and sensitive touch, movement, and dialogue. Indicated for all ages, it aims to relieve stress, reinforce expressiveness, and balance all aspects related to the body and psyche.

BaBoMiDa - Baby Body-Mind Dancing is a unique synthesis of three somatic teaching methods - Laban Movement Analysis, which explores the language of human movement, Bartenieff Fundamentals, which teaches movement efficiency, and Body-Mind Centering®, which focuses on awareness of all areas of the body.

Angela Guerreiro is afro-descendant, mother, independent artist, choreographer, performer, mentor, curator of festivals and conferences, was born in Lisbon in 1965. She lived in Germany from 1994 to 2021 and currently resides in Portugal.

Graduated in classical dance according to the Royal Academy of Dance system (1975-86), studied at the Escola Superior de Dança, in Lisbon (1986-89) and at the Center of New Dance Development in Arnhem (1989-91) . She has a master's degree in Dance and Movement Therapy (2015), training in Moving Cycle, a body-centered psychotherapy (2015), Relaxation Therapist (Autogenes Training and Progressive Muscle Relaxation). A Dynamic Embodiment Practitioner (DEP), graduated from the Somatic Movement Therapy Training (DE-SMTT) program in 2019. Started BaBoMiDa - Baby BodyMind Dancing™, a branch of the BodyMind Dancing™ program, the somatic dance system developed by Martha Eddy. She is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME) - ISMETA.

In Portugal, she made her career as a performer for João Fiadeiro's Companhia RE.Al from 1991 to 1994. In Germany, she began her career as a resident choreographer at Kampnagel Hamburg from 1995 to 2002, her creations made an international circuit of dance festivals and theater.

From 2003 to 2005 he produced and directed his creations 'Exposure' and 'Memory Play', two solos presented at the independent space Hamburger Botschaft.

From 2006 to 2008, he directed the Hamburg Theater and Dance Association (Dachverband Freier Theaterschaffender Hamburg e.V.).

In 2005, he starts, directs and produces the international festival 'DanceKiosk-Hamburg', including in its programming the Portuguese creators Paulo Castro (2005), Vania Gala (2006), Rogério Nuno Costa (2007), Joana Manaças and Rita Omar (Dance Beyond Borders,2009), Teresa Ranieri (2010), Lander Patrick (2014), Henrique Antão (2015-16), Manuel Guerra (2016), and João Costa Espinho (2016).

Produced the 'Kiosk.Company', the project 'DanceKiosk. Goes Island', the international production 'Tracing Dance from Addis Ababa to Nairobi and Hamburg', the international dance education project 'dance beyond borders' and the project on survival strategies of the dance artistic milieu 'SURVIVING DANCE - Art - Economy - Politics'.

In DANÇA 2011 magazine it was calledone of the last independent contemporary dance activists.

TANZFONDS ERBE - An initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation supported his project 'The Live Legacy Project: Correspondences between German Contemporary Dance and the Judson Dance Theater Movement'.

In 2015, Angela Guerreiro participated in the project 'The best. The worst. My everything!'. And the film 'The Live Legacy Project - Film documentation', was premiered at Tanzkongress Hannover 2016.

From 2016-17, alongside his artistic work, he worked as a dance and movement therapist with children in Ukraine, at the Renate Szlovak Foundation. In 2016, the festival ‚DanceKiosk-Hamburg_48 Hours Nomads’, was created in the outdoor spaces of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg. He was a performer in Frank Castorf’s ‚Faust‘ production, at the Volksbühne Berlin, in 2017.

From 2019-20 she worked as an independent choreographer and teacher in Munich. He taught workshops organized by the Pedagogical Institute - Center for Community Management in Education (Pädagogisches Institut-Zentrum für kommunales Bildungsmanagement) in collaboration with the School of Vocational Integration (Berufsschule zur Berufsintegration). Taught movement classes for children at the Volkshochschule München.

In 2020, he receives support from the Munich cultural department for ‚WIR‘, a cinematographic documentation with international teenagers. And he is awarded a research grant for the investigation and creation of the installation 'Me and My White Skeleton' on the presence of black bodies in Europe.

In 2021, he receives funding for the project 'Digitizing the Archive from 1994-2016 - Angela Guerreiro Productions (AGP)', funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program, DIS-TANZEN Dachverband aid program Tanz Deutschland (German Dance Organization). She was co-curator of the Festival Body IQ 2021 in Berlin. Member of the association UNA - União Negra das Artes.