Earlier events:

The metro - start and stop Centralstation

Floating - start and stop Nybrokajen

The Library of the human heart - Start and stop at the entrance Stadsbiblioteket

Silence - Start and stop at Östermalmstorg

The love bomb - Medborgarplatsen

Love is free - Sturegallerian

URBAN RETREAT LAB

COREOGRAPHY MEETS DARMA

Rachel Fuller aka Vajradarshini and Ulrika Blåeld Wedin

URBAN RETREAT LAB Is a new platform for studying what happens at the intersection of choreography and dharma a collaboration between the choreographer Ulrika Wedin and the dharma teacher Rachel Fuller aka Vajradarshini - Red Ladder Studio. The teachings of Buddhism are called dharma. But the word dharma points to universal truths that can't really 'belong' to any religion.

A meeting between artists and meditators

A laboratory for our perceptions of the world

Happening in the public and art spaces of the city

With the URBAN RETREAT LAB were reflecting on the dharma using our body, movement and choreographic methods. Our body and it's movement becomes our tool. We are talking about choreography in its broadest sense, people and things inhabiting space. We see the city as a human body and the city hall as a choreographic pattern. We take a look behind the city's scenes into the secret game behind the visible. For professional dancers, choreographers, and artists you can use URBAN RETREAT LAB as a laboratory to inspire and investigate yourself and your artistic work.

Rachel Fuller aka Vajradarshini – dharma and meditation teatcher. Stockholm/England. Rachel Fuller has been practicing Buddhism for 30 years and teaching dharma and meditation for over 20 years. In all that time the aspect of practice that I loved the most was bringing the Buddhist teachings together with art. Something would happen, the art illuminated the dharma and the dharma illuminated the art. I started Red Ladder Studio as a way to focus on the connection between art and dharma, between meditation and creativity. In Sweden Rachel Fuller has collaborated with Cullbergballeten and Moderna museet amongst others. Red Ladder Studio