Welcome! on this page you can find an overview of my practice, which I call Moving Music.
In the last few years I’ve been fascinated with reconnecting sound and movement.
My name is Maya Felixbrot, I'm a musician, Violist , multi-stylistic performer and improviser, composer (MA) for dance, theater, film and art, interdisciplinary maker who collaborated with, coaches and advises artists, movement analyst (CMA, RSME) and independent researcher, curator and educator for a variety of ages populations.
I see sound and movement as a whole - a woven fabric, where the two create a new territory. Through listening, understanding, compromising, with meaning as a connecting link, they intertwine.
My motivation is both personal and political.
Boundaries are my pattern: personally - looking for my own boundaries and politically - as an Israeli, living in the complex reaity of occupation, war and terror. This pattern materializes in my artistic pracitce - searching for a beyond-disciplinary creation.
This research has touched every corner of my artistic and proffesional life: as a viola player, performer, composer, educator, curator, choreographer and dramaturg, and with students, artists, musicians, movers and collaborators.
In the last few years I’ve been fascinated with reconnecting sound and movement.
My name is Maya Felixbrot, I'm a musician, Violist , multi-stylistic performer and improviser, composer (MA) for dance, theater, film and art, interdisciplinary maker who collaborated with, coaches and advises artists, movement analyst (CMA, RSME) and independent researcher, curator and educator for a variety of ages populations.
I see sound and movement as a whole - a woven fabric, where the two create a new territory. Through listening, understanding, compromising, with meaning as a connecting link, they intertwine.
My motivation is both personal and political.
Boundaries are my pattern: personally - looking for my own boundaries and politically - as an Israeli, living in the complex reaity of occupation, war and terror. This pattern materializes in my artistic pracitce - searching for a beyond-disciplinary creation.
This research has touched every corner of my artistic and proffesional life: as a viola player, performer, composer, educator, curator, choreographer and dramaturg, and with students, artists, musicians, movers and collaborators.
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Getting to know somatic movement through the systems of Rodulf Laban and Irmgard Bartenieff and their successors allowed me to dive deeper into this fascination.
Recently, I graduated from Emove Institue, Rotterdam, as a Laban Bartenieff Movement System Analyst. I was priviliged to learn with wonderful teachers - Alexandra Baybutt, Katharina Conradi, Marieke Delannoy, Alesio Maria Romano and Karen Studd.
My goal is to articulate the relationship between movement and sound by finding commons, differences, similarities, parallels and shared ideas.
In that, I wish for sound and movement, music and dance, to become a greater part of everyday life in a way that the connection between the two will be accessible to all. I want to support people in recognizing this connection in themselves and in their environment, and thus develop an awareness to the expressive, communication and listening abilities available to them. I believe it can enrich our society.
I develop and offer this practice to support musicians in sustainable music making, and in growing expression and creativity;
to enable movement practitionaris and artists in working with sound and music, and to create and collaborate in interdisciplinary settings;
to connect curious people, children and adults, with their sound and movement capacities and with eachother;
to contribute to a reality where listening, compromize and inspiration beyond any boundaries are key.
Together with my collaborators I develop ideas and strategies about how movement and sound can support and complement each other.
Here is a selection of my recent artistic and proffesional activity reconnecting sound and movement:
Moving Strings, an Amsterdam-based collective of mostly (but not only) string players, is dedicated to the research of different movement practices in music. We create performances, collaborate with choreographer Manuela Tessie and with various artists, have research sessions that are open to the public and regularly offer workshops for musicians and movers. Together with Violist Alex Welch, we develop movement and mindfulness stratagies that are specific for string player. In 2022-2023 Moving Strings is ensemble in residency at Splendor, Amsterdam and Gaudeamus, Utrecht.
PLAY AS YOU ARE, co-led with Alexandra Baybutt, is an online & live series of creative movement workshops for musicians. It introduces practical movement tools to support musicians creative practice and sustainability/health. It draws from concepts for movement analysis from the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS), presented in PAYA as a somatic practice with an emphasis on creative exploration.
With my solo video and live performance trilogy Traveling Viola (Viola/video/movement) I research how nature, body, sound, movement and the psychological-emotional world connect, each time in a different landscape.
And with the trilogy Stagnant Water, Gathering Fantasies, Round & Round, made for and with ensemble Moving Strings, I research the the collective by deconsturcting familiar socio-political structures, in sound and movement.
In Muzaza, my interactive performance and workshop for children, they experience the infinite range of sound through movement and color.
Furthermore, I coach and give workshops for students, musicians, artists and dancers, at institues such as Codarts, Rotterdam, The Royal Coservatory, The Hague, Rietveld Academy and Amsterdam Academy for Theater and Dance, Amsterdam. I יhave more than 15 years of experience as an educator for a wide range
Upcoming events
Click the links for registration and more info
Click the links for registration and more info
Sep. 7th 22' Corporeality in Music, Gaudeamus Muziekweek Academy: seminar, presentation and workshop, Utrecht.
Nov.-Dec. 22' PLAY AS YOU ARE present: Playfulnesssensation - series of 6 workshops for musicians~movers, 1 in person + 5 online.
Sep. 22' Moving Strings present: Movement & Mindfulness Stratagies for String players, in person in Amsterdam.
Registration: [email protected]
Nov. 22' Play, Move, Play week long workshop for composition, sonology and art-science students, Royal Coservaroty and KABK, The Hague.
March 23' Premiere of UMVA! by composer Aurelie Lierman where I contribute as a choreographer and movement & sound dramaturg
Nov.-Dec. 22' PLAY AS YOU ARE present: Playfulnesssensation - series of 6 workshops for musicians~movers, 1 in person + 5 online.
Sep. 22' Moving Strings present: Movement & Mindfulness Stratagies for String players, in person in Amsterdam.
Registration: [email protected]
Nov. 22' Play, Move, Play week long workshop for composition, sonology and art-science students, Royal Coservaroty and KABK, The Hague.
March 23' Premiere of UMVA! by composer Aurelie Lierman where I contribute as a choreographer and movement & sound dramaturg
If you'd like to know more, attend some of the activities, collaborate or just share - you're very welcome to contact me.
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