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as of Nov. 28, 2008
Workshops 2008
Thierry Baë
Week1: July 14 - 18
10:15 - 12:00Tai Chi Chuan o



Tai Chi Chuan
a magnificent tool for our consciousness

Tai Chi is a nonviolent Martial Art supporting us to develop grounding, fluidity in moving and calmness. The base of the practice comprises form, Chi Kong, practice with partners and self-defense.
In a series of movements and postures inner circles are developing: circulation of Chi (life energy), spirals of arms and legs, action of the centre, releasing the spine. Chi Kong is the work with the breath, organising movement and posture, and the circulation of energies in the body. With a partner we practise push-hands, these are playful exercises for flow (deviation) and grounding (projection). Self-defense means the application of the form aiming to use the inner energies.

Tai Chi is a support for meditation, action and health and mainly a magnificent tool for our consciousness, in the beginning superficially for axis and posture, over time Tai Chi effects skin, bones and organs in a subtle and profound way.




Thierry Baë
Thierry Baë only started to dance after his studies of visual arts in Reims, first with Marcel Marceau, then with Etienne Decroux. He became the assistant of Decroux. From 1986 to 1997 he participated in all works of Catherine Diverrès, and in Canard pékinois, L’Effet boeuf, and Les Philosophes of Josef Nadj. 1997 he founded his own company TRAITS DE CIEL. He has been teaching at numerous places in France and internationally. As a disciple of Master Chu King Hung he has been teaching Tai Chi for 20 years. He is educated in classical music (clarinet) and plays the guitar, the trumpet and the Japanese flute.
Photo: Thierry Baë © Bernhard Dutheil