b12 summer | main event
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b12 summer main event
— // —location: eden***** studios
bruno caverna
PLAY-FIGHT PRACTICE
Play-Fight is a core practice within Formless Arts, weaving raw physicality with a movement philosophy that brings awareness to our unconscious resistances to gravity and the pervasive human fear of falling—physically, emotionally, and existentially. Through playful yet incisive physical drills, participants learn to recognize, acknowledge, and transform lifelong patterns of hidden tension and protective holding. The practice cultivates empowerment by recycling these blockages into adaptability, sensitivity, and creative responsiveness. At its heart, Play-Fight explores the ecology of relationship: the continuous dance between cooperation and confrontation, where instinct, curiosity, and mutual awareness become the ground for authentic encounter.
the description reflects an artist’s idea which was developed at the time it was submitted to b12. it may have changed by the time the workshop or the performance project is starting. please stay flexible. thank you!
biography
bruno caverna has been immersed in multidisciplinary body–mind studies for nearly 40 years, beginning with capoeira in 1987 and unfolding through acrobatics, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, russian systema, watsu, freediving and breathwork. his teaching path began in 1995 with a capoeira program in a psychiatric hospital, an experience that forged the deconstructive and adaptive pedagogical foundations that continue to shape his work. in 2012 bruno gave birth to the play-fight and liquid body practices, both emerging from his long-term research into embodiment, relational intelligence and the dynamics of conflict and cooperation. in 2016 he founded formless arts, an international platform dedicated to cultivating a community of self-responsible practitioners across disciplines. drawing from decades of inquiry, and particularly from the internal martial principles transmitted by alexander solovev, in 2023 bruno distilled his knowledge into gfp – gravitational field principle, a somatic education program exploring falling, adaptability and co-regulation with natural forces. in 2025 he formed the first generation of gfp practitioners. bruno is also a certified freediving instructor with the molchanov school and the founder of functional apnea, a breathwork methodology informed by the buteyko method and oxygen advantage.
please be aware of our early bird special offer for this workshop! you can apply for this offer up until the 24th of march 2025. after the 24th the regular workshop fee applies. applications are accepted up until one day before the workshops starts.
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