Conscious Release™ Method - Agostina D'Alessandro

Conscious Release™ is the result of years of experience and research into the fields of body mechanics, philosophy, physics, movement theories and metaphysical approach to dance.

The application of this technique optimizes the body perception by building awareness towards the current state and abilities of the dancer. The body becomes a borderless tool for the imagination and its dance patterns.

By using the contemplation of inner space and through the release of tension, an effective means to stop habitual patterns and formal movements in the dance arises. Full creativity can then be experienced and form appears only to serve a unique expression: the present moment.

Conscious Release™ method had receive a research grant from Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles Service de la Danse (2018) and from Centre Chorégraphique Charleroi Danse (2020).

Professional dancers talking about it

“The biggest change of body perception through the Conscious Release is to find out a complete new relationship to my own body. I normally tend to separate the body and mind into two different entities. This new perspective on body perception gave me a lot of calmness and freedom to be taken by the instant, rather than letting the mind try to control all which is possible, and therefore creating tension.”

“I can perceive with a lot of detail the connection between each joint and the tension I might have around them. It also affects the length and weight of arms, they feel heavier but also longer. I feel that my body is a channel that is open, and not a cluster that is locked in. The state of consciousness makes me assume what I have at the moment and embrace it consciously”

“When accessing this state of consciousness my body feels very permeable, deeply centered in its true being. So present and at the same time transparent. I feel the outside. I feel my body embodying what needs to happen, in a sharp and effortless, worriless, willing-less, control-less way. I do feel that the access to this state of consciousness gets refined through practice”

“I have the impression that my body became smarter, that not knowing the end or the beginning of a movement actually gives you freedom and surprises and a beautiful inner feeling. It opens the possibilities of new movement, stimulates creativity, allows a new physical exploration, takes out the expectation in my dance, and creates a lot of space for our personal being”