Body-Mind Centering® and the Quality of Performance 

SomaHut workshop

with

Ilonka Pucihar (SLO)

for musicians and all interested in embodied practice

Academy of Music Zagreb
Trg Republike Hrvatske 12

May 3, 5.30 pm – 8.30 pm (Studio Stančić, IV floor)
May 4, 10 am – 1 pm  (Studio  Lhotka, III floor)

Ilonka Pucihar, PhD, teaches the piano at the Vrhnika Music School and lectures in piano pedagogy, teaching practice and dimensions of performing at the Ljubljana Academy of Music. She completed her degree at the Ljubljana Academy of Music with Prof. Tatjana Ognjanović. In 2007, she obtained a diploma in the music teaching methods of Edgar Willems, and in 2023 she completed a Practitioner Program at the School for Body-Mind Centering®. As a soloist, she has performed with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and the Maribor Philharmonic Society Symphony Orchestra. She is a member of the ensemble Clavimerata and has performed throughout Slovenia, as well as in Germany, Austria, France, Israel, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. With her husband Jaka Pucihar, she has written the highly successful piano method books entitled My Friend the Piano, and she regularly lectures and conducts piano, music, movement, sound and Body-Mind Centering® workshops in Slovenia and abroad (USA, Switzerland, Austria, Croatia, Serbia). Her monography My Friend the Piano for Teachers: concepts, skills and strategies for piano teaching has recently been published by the University of Primorska Press.

Body-Mind Centering®  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. Its uniqueness lies in the specificity with which each of the body systems and developmental movements can be personally embodied and integrated. BMC holds a holistic view of the body, meaning that the body is a living organism where each part functions in relationship to all the other parts.  Body-Mind Centering® workshop thus offers a holistic, creative, multidimensional teaching approach to learning about ourselves and our relationship with the world. Through the process of embodiment we will explore the wonders of some parts of our skeletal, organ system anatomy and developmental movements offering us a possibility to learn how to eliminate problems that constrain the actions and freeness of the body-mind  and how to use the body effectively to produce high quality musical performances.

Reservations are required, places are limited.

You can sign up by sending an email to: somahut.mmk@gmail.com

Contribution:  60 eur

This workshop is part of SomaHut program, produced by Multimedijalna koliba / Multumedia Hut organisation and organized in collaboration with University of Zagreb, Academy of Music Zagreb.

SomaHut program is supported by the City of Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia.