« Authentic in your art, Artist in your life »

dancing your life presentsaimed at all kind of artists and at all people who are passionate by art

Formation retreats - Spain Belgium Italy - 2009

Freedom Rigour Virtue

Danza Duende® is a training under all aspects of our lives, which allows usto value and elevate our existence by dancing. It leads us to discover the art

being as we are and to open ourselves to the potential of our free and loving nature.This project has been created by Myriam Szabo with the purpose of transforming our livesinto an art practice offers numerous activities to cultivate basic goodness in daily life.In our international trainings several teachers gather together their different artistic skills inorder to propose a strong synergic work, bringing together exercises on perceptions, onintelligence, improving braveness, nourishing a spirit of joy and generosity.It is a long-term training that allows us to visit the very sources of form in our own mind andto discover our intrinsic potential so that we can work in all aspects of life as if we dancedour life.NOW ALL THE ACTIVITIES AND RETREATS ARE OPENED FOR BOTH SEXES.

The Duende methods mainly aim at developing our perception of space, courage and thecapacity to improvise, to create forms, to adapt ourselves to changes, to capturemovements quickly, to express ourselves clearly and intensely, to communicate and to beflexible and generous when working in others.Danza Duende® envisages a training that promotes ethics and joy in the transmission of art.

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photographs : Jérôme Latteur | design : Olivier Vin

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Level 1— « The basis, the path and the fruit » (In spanish and french)Place: Lalita (Spain) — 29/05-06/06/2009Teacher: Myriam Szabo - assistant: Marga GomezInfo & inscriptions: danzaduende[at]gmail.com - myriamszabo[at]gmail.comwww.danzaduende.org — www.lalita.netLevel 2 — « MAITRI » (In spanish and french)Place: Lalita (Spain) — 21-29/05/2009Teacher: Barbara Mertens - assistant: Myriam SzaboInfo & inscriptions : danzaduende[at]gmail.com - myriamszabo[at]gmail.comwww.danzaduende.org — www.lalita.netLevel 1— « The basis, the path and the fruit » (In french and english)Place: Orval (Belgium) — 22-30/06/2009Teacher: Myriam Szabo - assistant : Emeric ThuretInfo & inscriptions : myriamszabo[at]gmail.com - hibouvoyageur[at]hotmail.comwww.danzaduende.orgLevel 1— « The basis, the path and the fruit » (In italian and english)Place: Casa Garuda (Italy) — 22-29/08/2009Teacher: Myriam Szabo - assistants : Brian Hilliard, Liliana ViegasInfo & inscriptions : myriamszabo[at]gmail.com - info[at]metissart.itwww.casagaruda.orgLevel 3— « Personnal instructions » (In spanish and french)Place: Nou Espiral, Girona (Spain) — End of Sept. 2009 (dates to be confirmed)Teacher: Myriam SzaboInfo & inscriptions : myriamszabo[at]gmail.com - www.nouespiral.net

RETREATS & WORKSHOPS

LEVELS PROGRAMLevel 1— « The basis, the path and the fruit »BASIS : The sky. Freedom here and now. The peaceful mind.PATH : Earth. Rigour: harmony and natural rhythm. The overcoming of fear and the openinquisitiveness of the warrior. The scientific mind.FRUIT : Ourselves, our natural virtues: generosity, communication, the unconditional joy ofa fresh spirit in the service of life. A simple heart.This course consists of a series of different exercises going from dance and theatre tocalligraphy and meditation, aiming at opening breaches on our usual habitual patterns andat liberating us from the limits these impose on us. The chronology of the themes is a fixedbasis for the development of the course. The sources and techniques used may varyaccording to situations and circumstances.

Level 2 — « MAITRI »MAITRI : « Living the colours of wisdom »The potential transformation of emotive states and the discovering of their intelligent source.A psychology study programme created by Chogyam Trungpa in the Naropa Institute,USA, and presented within the framework of the Danza Duende project by BarbaraMaertens and Myriam Szabo. (See following page)

THE LEVEL 2

MAITRIThe Sanskrit word « maitri » means love or unconditional friendliness. The maitri spaceawareness practice was developed by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan mediationmaster and is based on the traditional teachings about the five Buddha families as wellas other elements of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism.The five Buddha families describe five basic aspects of manifestation which can beexperienced on every outer and inner level of being in each moment new. We all movethrough life with our individual patterns of behaviour and perception which are anexpression of the dynamic interplay and potential of these five archetypical forms ofenergy. Each of the families can be experienced as awake or confused, depending on theapproach we take towards it.In maitri space awareness practice we heighten and provoke these basic energypatterns by using colours and specific body postures. In this way we have the opportu-nity to experience and explore the dynamic play of these energies in all itʼs manifoldcolours. We learn to trust the display of itʼs expressive power in us and others and get achance to expand our habitual emotional and perceptional repertoire. By befriendingourselves it dawns to us that we are nothing but a unique and precious dance of thesefive energies and their manifold variations.

A soloist dancer of the Russian Ballet Irina Grjebina at the age of 12, Myriam Szabohas studied the disciplines of the body intensively all along her artistic career: worlddances, martial arts, yoga and qi gong. She has been participating in several studyand meditation retreats (both individually and in group) on a regular basis since1981. After having worked in France and Portugal as a character dance soloist, amodel, a cultural festival producer and as an actress, she created the Danza Duendeproject which proposes to dance one’s life as a means of awakening one’s naturalgoodness each day. Myriam has been giving seminars in different Europeancountries since 1991.In 2005 she decided to set her main residence in Brussels, where she was invitedby Christine Delmotte to dance as a soloist in Molière’s play « Les Fourberies deScapin » in 2007. She will also be performing in the play « Sur les traces deSiddharta » by Chrisitine Delmotte, which will premier this year at the Martyrs’ Theatre.

Myriam Szabo

TEACHERS

Liliana ViegasLiliane began her training in ballet at the age of 11 with Raselli Del Camby in Rabat,Morocco. From the age of 18 she also studied jazz dance and ballroom dancing inFrance. She took part in the formation of the first jazz dance group with Rui Horta in1978, after which she created her own company and dance studio under the nameof « Setima Posição » in Lisbon.Professional dancer, choreographer and dance teacher for over 20 years, Lilianehas taken part in numerous independent productions for television or theatre.She discovered oriental dance in 1997 with Myriam Szabo and joined the DanzaDuende project.Clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and bioenergetic analyst , Liliane also worksas a dance-therapist in a psychiatric hospital in Lisbon.

Barbara Maertens is trained in cultural pedagogy, Zen-arts and contemplativepsychology; currently she is director of the Buddhist gate of Shambhala Europe.Barbara Maertens teaches Maitri Space Awareness practice and other contempla-tive approaches to art, work, and to life in general. Her special emphasis lies intraining sense perception and creative expression in individual and group work. Sheis a Buddhist teacher with more than 20 years of practice. Today she is a memberof faculty in Karuna and Upaya, has two grown up children and lives in Cologne,Germany.

Barbara Maertens

Brian Hilliard has been a student of Vajrayana Buddhism for over 30 years. He hasstudied and practiced under several masters from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition,including Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Thrangu Rinpoche and Khenpo TsultrimGyamtso Rinpoche. In 1997 he completed the traditional three-year retreat in CapeBreton, Nova Scotia. He is presently director of Casa Garuda, a retreat center in theheart of Italy, which hosts meditation retreats and and seminars in the contemplativearts.

Brian Hilliard