Somatic movement practice and improvisational techniques
I am teaching improvisation based on somatic (body-mindful) and release based methods inspired by my training in different specific somatic movement techniques and also studying with specific teachers within the post-judson scene in New York and Europe.

In 2009 I met up with Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) as a dance student of contemporary dance and decided to understand the technique in depth. After that I journeyed into the Alexander Technique, BodyMind Centering, Ideokinesis and Contact Improvisation. I studied the SRT pedagogy with Stephanie Skura (Open Source Forms) and Karl Andersson, Alexander Technique with Eva Karczag, Ann Rodiger and other teachers in New York such as Shelley Senter. In 2017 I entered an apprentice/mentor relationship with Eva Karczag, who is one of the developers of releasing technique with her unique pedagogy based on her practice in Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Ideokinesis, Alexander technique, and BodyMind Centering, as well as working as a dancer her whole life including originating most of Trisha Brown’s dance works and being a dedicated improviser.

In my classes and workshops I use touch as a tool to guide the body into movement. We slow down and listen deeply in order to find speed and alertness in an effortless way. I investigate how to open up possibilities for moving and thinking which allows creativity, spontaneity, expression and ease. I investigate the idea of non-doing or non-end-gaining, to allow the movement to unfold on its own. We do this by also listening to guided poetic imagery and metaphors, looking at images of the body and playing with scores. In a session we work with breath, weight, perception, relational intelligence, and many other aspects of the body’s innate intelligence.

My experience as a dancer and maker of artistic work also allows me to integrate performance making, drawing and writing with my somatic movement practice, which is very suited for visual artists, performance artists, choreographers, writers, architects and many other professions. As we let go of tension and open up space within the body our fantasy can begin to open up and lead us, as well as the intelligence of the body on a cellular level.

The application of these practices can be used by people in movement, acting, dance, art, voice, education, meditation, healing therapies, daily life activities and recovery from injuries. The work is practiced in the context of self-discovery and openness and each person is both the student and the subject matter, to discover ease that underlies transformation.

In 2018-2020 I did an MFA where I researched the political aspects of the practices I am influenced by, especially the work of Eva Karczag and Skinner Releasing Technique. I am interested in how these practices are a way to practice non-violent relating, a way to tune into the will and needs of our body which might create resistance to some of the ideals that a capitalist culture teaches us, and so on… My investigations are connected to ecological thinking, non-binaryness, pleasure-politics, radical care… and so on.

INFLUENTIAL PRACTICES:
Alexander Technique
AT helps you through guided language and hands-on work to observe, identify and bring into consciousness the unuseful movement and psychological habits you’ve built up throughout life and learn how to make new choices that brings more ease, freedom and presence.
From 2011-2017 I practiced AT in group classes and privately, with Gary Ramsey, Kathe Jarka, Shelley Senter, Ann Rodiger and Eva Karczag. In November 2016 I joined the Teacher Training program at Balance Arts Center and aim to finish my teacher training when life allows.

Skinner Releasing Technique
SRT has evolved from the simple principle that when we are releasing physical tension, we can move with greater freedom, power and articulation. In SRT classes, spontaneous movement evoked by guided poetic imagery, supported by music and sound, enables a creative and easily accessible exploration of technical movement principles such as multi-directional alignment, suppleness, suspension, economy and autonomy.
I have been practicing SRT since 2009 with Jennifer Lynn and Sally Dean in UK, but most of my experience comes from working with Karl Anderson weekly 2013-2017 and taking workshops in OSF with Stephanie Skura. I am half-way through my teacher training in OSF with Stephanie Skura.

Eva Karczag
Eva’s performance work and teaching are informed by dance improvisation and mindful body practices (including T’ai Chi Ch’uan and Qi Gong, the Alexander Technique (certified teacher), Ideokinesis, and Yoga). Since 1972, she has been a member of leading groups in the field of experimental dance, including the Trisha Brown Dance Company (1979-86) and Strider in UK. Through her performing and teaching, she aims to communicate her love of full-bodied dancing and her interest in the practice of being in the moment.
I have been taking private Alexander lessons and workshops with Eva since 2013, and I am currently working closely with her as a teacher assistant and collaborator.

Stephanie Skura/Open Source Forms
Deeply rooted in, and fluidly expanded from Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), Open Source Forms is about cross-fertilizations and deep commonalities of SRT and creative process: shedding outer layers, finding primal energy, agility navigating subconscious realms, and imagery as powerful tool for transformation.
I have taken workshops with Stephanie Skura in New York 2014-2016 and in October 2017 I participated in a three week full-time pre-Teacher Training course in OSF in Wales and in 2019 I did the first part of my teacher training with Stephanie Skura.

BodyMind Centering
BMC is an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body and consciousness. Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, it is an experiential study based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental principles, utilizing movement, touch, voice and mind.
I am not a certified BMC practitioner, but I have taken workshops in BMC as well as classes with teachers such as KJ Holmes, Levi Gonzalez, Luciana Achugar, Olive Bieringa and Beth Goren.

Contact Improvisation
Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by Steve Paxton. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia. Alertness is developed in order to work in an energetic state of physical disorientation, trusting in one’s basic survival instincts. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened.
Tuva has practiced CI in New York through Movement Research and at jams, with KJ Holmes, Margaret Paek, Paul Singh and Bradley Teal Ellis, among others.

Meisner Technique
This acting technique is built on the idea that “acting is to live truthfully under given imaginary circumstances”. It is about stepping into who you are, rather than becoming someone else, and responding truthfully and uncensored to how your environment affects you. In Meisner one focuses on letting go of thinking, by practicing focusing to a 100% on our partner. If we can let go of directing ourselves, we won’t be self-conscious, let our partner penetrate our defense mechanisms and therefore respond intuitively and authentically.
I studied Meisner technique at the Actor’s Temple in London in 2009 and then during a two years conservatory training at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, the school where Meisner taught and developed his technique.