Dr. Adriana Almeida Pees

Fascia: Organ of communication

The aim of the workshop is to explore the continuum of the connective tissue of fascia and its structures which serves as a body-wide mechanosensitive signaling system. In this sense, we will embody its important role as proprioceptors which parts are integrated in the locomotor system and the human posture.

A fascia is a structure of connective tissue that surrounds muscles, blood vessels and nerves, binding some structures together, while permitting others to slide smoothly over each other. Fascia is the largest system in the body and touches all other systems and connects all the physiological human aspects.

Dr. Adriana Almeida Pees is a Body-Mind Centering^® teacher, practitioner, infant-developmental movement educator (IDME), an ISMETA registered movement therapist and educator. She is a Gyrotonic^® and a Gyrokinesis^® master trainer and CranioSacral therapist. Since 2008 she´s the director of the South American BMC training program in Brazil. She received her PhD from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas-SP (State University of Campinas – Unicamp) at the Institute for the Arts, specializing in dance.

She has been working as a dancer, choreographer and guest teacher in various productions by the directors Frank Castorf, Christoph Marthaler, Christoph Schlingensief, at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, at the Berlin Ensemble, Schauspielhannover, Tanzquartier Wien, ImPulzTanz International Festival, Konservatorium Wien Private Universität and K3 in Hamburg.