Life/Livework

Alertness, intensity of perception, promptness in reacting to situations: on stage, on the job, and in life.

Life (live) Work is an activity that involves the mind and the body. Thanks to music, voice and movement it increases one's personal capacity to "see" reality without being influenced by one's emotions or mood, and it allows the individual to see everything in its real dimensions.

Life Work is useful for dancers to help them improve their stage presence and it helps them react promptly to difficult and unexpected situations. It is useful for the professional woman or man to understand work situations and business relations. It is useful for us all to dampen our emotional excesses and to transform the difficulties of life into an opportunity for personal growth.

Life/Livework rehabilitative training

IT'S CALLED LIFE (LIVE) WORK

GOALS: recovering from physical and psychological traumas; overcoming the consequences effects of a disease; increasing one's ability to perceive reality and relationships with others.

WHOM IS THIS FOR: this is a rehabilitative training for those who have difficulty communicating (isolation, depression, insecurity); degenerative diseases; psychological traumas; and for those who wish to improve their professional life productivity, and their ability of analyzing and solving situations in their job and profession.

HOW DOES THIS WORK? This activity enables the participants to tune in and be in the now, which requires and attitude and openness to continual adjournment, just like phases of life (for this the name Life Work).
This means that we must be in tune with nature and with the circumstances we find ourselves in. Often times our emotions can get the best of us, and we get confused about our true priorities and our values. Life Work helps to reappraise the real value of things, and to identify our problem, what is not working right within us (our poison), and to work on that aspect.
The trauma can be physical (like a tumor) or emotional (like a tragic event); slowly as one begins to be aware of the circumstances, one learns to "see" reality and understand why we do certain things. This new awareness usually occurs in the studio: understanding why we are doing what we are doing at a given time.
We can apply this same thing to our daily life, our work, our family, or even when caught in traffic. With this new awareness of reality there almost always occurs a change in one's posture and a change in one's psychological attitude.

HOW CAN ONE RECONNECT WITH REALITY? By working especially with the voice, by using an external medium, music, and with movement. Voice and music create contact with the moment. One acquires a keener perception and an exact sense of time. By stimulating the person in the present, he or she ends up remembering facts and episodes of the past (what we hide in our personal closet), they could be either positive or negative experiences which can be used in different ways for that day or for the future.

WHAT HAPPENS IN THE STUDIO: often being stimulated by the music, voice, movement the students release the real side of themselves, their authentic natural side (right or left brain) and they reacquire a sense of time, with a simple act as putting on a watch, after having ignored it for years, or putting it spontaneously on their right or left wrist.
The main characteristics of the person could become positive or negative depending on how they are being used: in an active manner (in tune with the circumstances) or passive (the dimension of a dreamer out of touch with reality).
Life Work focuses on keeping everyone in tune with the moment, aims at enabling one to always be aware, to have decision making capabilities, to gain perspective, to understand situations and face them, thanks to the constructive recovery of one's own past. To attain this one needs to always be active.
In CONCLUSION: to be in good health one always needs to work (for life, lifework).

Wiebe Moeys (contents)
Silvia Paoli (writer)

LIFEWORK CENTER c/o STUDIO DANZA ISPRA
Via E. Fermi 615 - 21027 Ispra (Varese) - Italy

For information:
centro@lifework.it
Phone: +39 0332-781326 - Mobile: +39 340-4739602