Amalgama Movement is a Methodology of Contemporary Dance fusing Oriental and Traditional Practices.

This Methodology was born within the body of the founders of Amalgama Dance Company. After several years of research and joint experiences, Amalgama Dance Company (amalgama.pt) has been defining a method that allows bringing Dance to everyone, benefiting both self-development as well as artistic training. The methodology emerged while the company worked in the Escola Superior de Medicina Tradicional Chinesa (esmtc.pt). It was validated by a Master Degree Programme in 2009 by Alexandra Battaglia.

It invests in the developement of contemporary dance, approaching the participant by means of the main concepts that have created it fusing Oriental principles and practices and using basic choreographic forms and steps from traditional dances.

Focussing on breathing as a constant element the work is structured between floor exercises, development of body awareness, rhythm, release technique, body center (hara), fall & recovery, improvisation and set sequences in space and time. The sessions have bases and inspirations of Tai Chi, Qigong, Yoga, Kung Fu, Feldenkrais, Gaga Technique, Shiatsu among others.

Through improvisation and contact/communication it develops the relation between the group and the individual promoting self-knowledge and knowledge of the other.

Amalgama Movement sees Dance as a natural connection vehicle that allows tuning, feeling, identifying, intervening, defragmenting, releasing, integrating, creating, assimilating, reconnecting, expressing and communicating. A Body-Soul-Mind Dance that offers tools for developing one’s own skills, rescuing the spontaneity and authenticity. It is a collective movement towards alignment and reconnection.

Amalgama Movement reconnects with our roots through an Artistic and Contemporary Vision. Its aim is to offer a set of knowledge, practices and tools which contributes to an artistic training in a process of personal development through the “Dancing Body”.