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When?
30–31 August 2025
Where?
Amsterdam, NL
For whom?
Musicians of all kinds --
all instruments or voices,
all levels of experience and (self-)education
Led by
Play As We Are & Moving Strings
30–31 August 2025
Where?
Amsterdam, NL
For whom?
Musicians of all kinds --
all instruments or voices,
all levels of experience and (self-)education
Led by
Play As We Are & Moving Strings
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Play As We Are 3rd Summer Retreat - Summer 2025 daily schedule
We’re happy to be hosting the third edition of the Play As We Are summer gathering --
two days of immersion in somatic sound practices for musicians of all kinds.
Open to professional musicians, practitioners, educators, and students.
~Daily Flow~
Morning
Guided class led by PAWA
Afternoon
Open Space-style exchange of practices exploring sound and movement
(What is Open Space?)
Everyone is welcome to propose a topic for exploration or join others.
Evening
Performances, shared scores, and collective practices
Why another gathering?
To reconnect — or connect for the first time.
To exchange, play, delve deeper, share, and learn.
We’re happy to be hosting the third edition of the Play As We Are summer gathering --
two days of immersion in somatic sound practices for musicians of all kinds.
Open to professional musicians, practitioners, educators, and students.
~Daily Flow~
Morning
Guided class led by PAWA
Afternoon
Open Space-style exchange of practices exploring sound and movement
(What is Open Space?)
Everyone is welcome to propose a topic for exploration or join others.
Evening
Performances, shared scores, and collective practices
Why another gathering?
To reconnect — or connect for the first time.
To exchange, play, delve deeper, share, and learn.
Prices
Book your retreat here
Full price
Full price category: do you have a regular income?
Are you in regular professional work as a musician/researcher/educator?
2 days: €200
1 day: €120
1 session/half day: €35
Student price:
2 days: €170
1 day: €85
1 session/half day: €25
RETURNING PARTICIPANTS FEE: €165 for 2 days
(or same 10% discount for 1 day/session)
Please contact us about further price reductions
Book your retreat here
Full price
Full price category: do you have a regular income?
Are you in regular professional work as a musician/researcher/educator?
2 days: €200
1 day: €120
1 session/half day: €35
Student price:
2 days: €170
1 day: €85
1 session/half day: €25
RETURNING PARTICIPANTS FEE: €165 for 2 days
(or same 10% discount for 1 day/session)
Please contact us about further price reductions
What will we do ?
* Learn through practical sessions based on Maya, Alex and Ali’s specialisms in somatic movement, Laban/Bartenieff Movement System, mindfulness, dance-based improvisation:
Ali will lead explorations in spatial directions connected to
how the body grows and shrinks with breath.
She is interested in how choosing directions and moving between
‘spatial pulls’ affects communication with sound.
Alex will teach exercises that bring awareness to our inner experience,
and how this sensing moves from internal to external and back again.
We will use musical scores from the Moving Strings repertoire
to explore how this works in practice.
Maya will lead practical exercises, applications of Bartenieff Fundamentals, such as Thigh Lift, Arm Circle, Rotation, different Patterns of Body Organization as well as Basic Body Actions, in playing an musical instrument or singing. She is curious how these exercises affect ones 'regular' playing movements and sound, and how they could expand towards an a choreography while/next to playing.
* Engage in individual and group creative practices, learn extracts of Moving Strings repertoire.
* Have the chance to be seen, see others and listen to in playful,
exploratory, non-judgemental ways.
* Have the space to challenge yourself, develop your personal practice,
work on a creative task you bring with you.
* Have the time to connect with your instrument, self and others, and the enviroments.
* Learn through practical sessions based on Maya, Alex and Ali’s specialisms in somatic movement, Laban/Bartenieff Movement System, mindfulness, dance-based improvisation:
Ali will lead explorations in spatial directions connected to
how the body grows and shrinks with breath.
She is interested in how choosing directions and moving between
‘spatial pulls’ affects communication with sound.
Alex will teach exercises that bring awareness to our inner experience,
and how this sensing moves from internal to external and back again.
We will use musical scores from the Moving Strings repertoire
to explore how this works in practice.
Maya will lead practical exercises, applications of Bartenieff Fundamentals, such as Thigh Lift, Arm Circle, Rotation, different Patterns of Body Organization as well as Basic Body Actions, in playing an musical instrument or singing. She is curious how these exercises affect ones 'regular' playing movements and sound, and how they could expand towards an a choreography while/next to playing.
* Engage in individual and group creative practices, learn extracts of Moving Strings repertoire.
* Have the chance to be seen, see others and listen to in playful,
exploratory, non-judgemental ways.
* Have the space to challenge yourself, develop your personal practice,
work on a creative task you bring with you.
* Have the time to connect with your instrument, self and others, and the enviroments.
Why?
The world of music is changing.
Alongside the traditional practices (classical, jazz, contemporary, pop etc.) a new practice is developing where the performer is not just an interpreter or maker, but a character on the stage. Today's and tomorrow's performers relate to their bodies and the body of the instrument as part of the creation. Movements of playing and expression become part of the performance.
Movement on and off the stage have become dramatic tools, as well as the performance space - its acoustics, visual characteristics and volume.
Performance spaces are both backgrounds and partners in the performance itself, and the relationship with the audience is getting closer, maybe even more necessary than ever.
This retreat responds and contributes to these needs of the professional field through a focus on ‘choreographies’ as a way to re-centre the body and movement,
within the context of musicianship.
The world of music is changing.
Alongside the traditional practices (classical, jazz, contemporary, pop etc.) a new practice is developing where the performer is not just an interpreter or maker, but a character on the stage. Today's and tomorrow's performers relate to their bodies and the body of the instrument as part of the creation. Movements of playing and expression become part of the performance.
Movement on and off the stage have become dramatic tools, as well as the performance space - its acoustics, visual characteristics and volume.
Performance spaces are both backgrounds and partners in the performance itself, and the relationship with the audience is getting closer, maybe even more necessary than ever.
This retreat responds and contributes to these needs of the professional field through a focus on ‘choreographies’ as a way to re-centre the body and movement,
within the context of musicianship.
