In this class, we will share tools drawn from Thai Yoga Massage and explore the potential of touch and its influence on movement. The aim is to apply the principles of this practice—grounding, flexibility, mobility, contact, and presence—to dance.

Working in pairs, participants will take turns experiencing Thai Yoga Massage techniques adapted to the dancer’s warm-up. Rocking, twisting, supporting, and mobilizing the limbs bring relaxation and joint freedom while opening up new pathways for bodily exploration.

Touch becomes a language, and dance extends this listening into space, in dialogue with gravity, support, and improvisation.

At the intersection of care and performance, we work with weight, breath, and a state of attentiveness to activate sensitive forms of movement. From the supportive gesture, a performative quality gradually emerges, making room for an organic and improvised dance born from the relationship between bodies.

This class offers a practice centered on encounter as a territory of exchange, perception, and real-time composition.

Milton Paulo

A dancer, massage therapist, and somatic therapist, Milton Paulo has developed a sensitive approach to the body at the crossroads of contemporary dance, somatic education, the G.D.S. Method, Thai Yoga Massage, energy healing, and work with post-traumatic residues.

Today, he dedicates his practice to individual and collective therapeutic support through massage therapy, dance therapy, Somatic Experiencing (SE), and biodynamic craniosacral therapy.

Maria Eugenia Lopez

Choreographer and performer, Maria Eugenia Lopez has collaborated with numerous artists, including Matteo Moles, Irène K, Fernando Martin, Félicette Chazerand, Oriane Varak, Lionel Hoche (France), Compagnie La Liseuse / Georges Appaix (France), and Tania Soubry (Luxembourg). In 2015, she created her first solo work, Versions, followed by Piel (2018), Nothingness (2020), and March On! (2024). Her works have been presented at Brigittines, Théâtre Marni, and Théâtre de la Vie in Brussels, as well as at Le Regard du Cygne (France), 3CL (Luxembourg), and the On Marche Festival in Morocco.

Alongside her creative work, she teaches dance to both adults and children. Her pedagogical approach is grounded in listening, presence, and transmission, placing the lived experience of movement and bodily awareness at the heart of the practice.

Both facilitators are certified practitioners of the Anathai School of Thai Yoga Massage & OSTEOTHAI, directed by Thierry Bienfaisant.