PICTURE a dance-program where technique is an investigation in anatomy, proprioception, imagination, motivation, availability, and efficiency; a palimpsest of internationally acclaimed methods that are continually updated and refined by their teachers’ associations. Picture a dance-program that embraces agency, supporting mid-career & less experienced dance-artists to bloom in their own pace along each-other. Imagine a year in central Athens, five minutes from the Lycabettus forest hill, on our lovely solid, unfinished, oak-wood floor.

Where: COCHLEA studia, Athens, Greece

When: 22 September 2025 – 12 June 2026

Deadline for applications: Sliding early bird scale. Please read below.

APPLICATIONS OPEN 15 NOVEMBER 2024

Picture GUTS | EYES | BONES | BOUNDARIES [d|intensifying] former SYNASKi, a nine-month international in-studio course, offered for the sixth year by COCHLEA res in central Athens/Greece, organised in five accumulative modules where somatic and hands-on practices, contemporary theory and contemporary choreography intersect.
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The daily program includes certified-technique morning-classes (10.00 – 11.30), followed by making & researching strategies workshops (12.15 – 15.15), taught in english, by renown members of the greek & international dance-artists community, including certified teachers of the Alexander Tech., Body-Mind Centering (SME), Contact Improvisation, Contemplative Dance Practice, Cranial-Sacral Therapy, SPP Fascia, Feldenkrais Meth., Franklin Method, Klein Tech., Rolfing Structural Integration, Skinner Releasing Tech., ViewPoints, Body-Weather, as well as theorists & practitioners of dramaturgy, improvisation, relational choreography, and more (detailed calendar cochleares.com/oneyearcourse).

GEBB d|intensifying is structured into 5 modules, leading to a two-week residential horizontal laboratory by the sea. Modules typically consist of (1) one week of experimental anatomy classes, (2) one week of post-MeToo post-COVID hands-on practices, (3) one week of contemporary theory on body, gender, movement & space, (4) one week of improvisation technique, and (5) one week of witnessing, performing & creative practice, leading to (6) a week of studio practice gently held by three mentors, including one-on-one sessions and self-directed time working alone-together in the studio, to rest, digest, reflect and transition towards a decompressing half-term or seasonal break. Half-term and seasonal breaks organise the academic year into the modules running from September to June. GEBB6 concluding weeks (1-12 June 2026) will be spent off-Athens, where participant…  (continue reading cochleares.com/oneyearcourse)

How to apply:
Please find our application form here cochleares.com/oneyearcourse

Early birds sliding tuition scale:
applications received before 15 December 2024 tuition 3.800 euro
applications received before 15 January 2025 tuition 4.000 euro
applications received before 15 February 2025 tuition 4.300 euro
applications received before 15 March 2025 tuition 4.700 euro
applications received before 15 April 2025 tuition 5.200 euro
applications received before 15 May 2025 tuition 5.800 euro

Contact details:
Please contact us via email: info@cochleares.com

For further information, please visit http://www.cochleares.com/oneyearcourse

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