Teaching
The Listening Body Practice
The Listening Body Practice is a playful somatic movement practice that uses gentle rhythmic fingertip tapping to awaken tactile awareness, deepen embodied listening, and inspire creative movement. Through partnered touch, repetition and improvisation, participants explore how simple rhythms can soften habitual patterns, enhance sensory perception, and allow movement to emerge from felt experience. The practice values curiosity, play, care and attentive presence over performance or technique.
In Practice
Core Principles
01
Listening through touch
Touch becomes a way of sensing rather than directing.
02
Playful rhythm
Gentle repetitive tapping invites curiosity, ease and embodied attention.
03
Felt perception
Awareness grows through subtle sensations, textures and micro-movements.
04
Movement emerges
Choreography arises from tactile experience rather than predetermined forms.
05
Reciprocity and care
Partner work is based on consent, trust and mutual attentiveness.
06
Creative exploration
There is no right or wrong movement; each body discovers its own rhythm.
What Participants Do
1
Experience gentle rhythmic fingertip tapping in pairs.
2
Alternate between the roles of activator and receiver.
3
Develop awareness of touch, breath, weight, texture and internal rhythm.
4
Explore playful tactile scores through repetition and variation.
5
Transform tactile sensations into improvised solo movement.
6
Discover how external rhythm becomes an internal source for movement, creativity and embodied listening.
Upcoming / Previous
Independent Dance, London (UK)
↗
EnKnapGroup, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
The Playground Session (Rambert), London (UK)
Pro Dance Oxford, Oxford (UK)
Cairo Contemporary Dance School, Cairo (Egypt)
Tanzfabrik, Berlin (Germany)
ChoreoLab Europe, Arnhem (Netherlands)
Kinetic Dance Space, Athens (Greece)
Centre d'Arts en Moviment (Roca Umbert), Granollers (Spain)
↗