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setting up local screenings for : Soma, an anarchist therapyAnonyme, Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 02:57
Nick Cooper
Soma is a documentary about a group therapy in Brazil which incorporates capoeira, Wilhelm Reich, and anarchism. I will be travelling between May and August around the US and Canada, screening the DVD and conducting a workshop. I am looking for help in setting up screenings nickcooper-at-indymedia.org. an anarchist therapy a documentary by Nick Cooper watch the preview ! email: nickcooper@(nospam)indymedia.org ! nickcooper.com I have a rough (still subject to change) schedule for your area: Mid June - Early July
please contact me to help set up screenings, workshops, etc.: Blinded by torture and with great difficulty walking, 75 year-old Roberto Freire continues his work in a small collective of anarchist group therapists in Brazil, fighting the psychological effects of authoritarianism. Nick Cooper travelled from the United States to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Bahia, and São Paulo to capture the exercises, the voice, and the movement of Soma Therapy. He spent many long sessions with Roberto Freire, who having survived the Brazilian military dictatorship, developeded Soma (body) thirty years ago, incorporating Wilhelm Reich's teachings, a martial art / dance form called capoeira angola, and the political ideas of anarchism. Angola is the traditional African form of capoeira, a Brazilian martial art, which slaves disguised as a dance. Through capoeira, slaves struggled for freedom, practicing movements of evasion to help them escape. Capoeira angola uses many things which Soma therapists find lacking in traditional therapy -- group participation, music, spontaneity, collaboration, mischief, playfulness, and the occasional kick. Wilhelm Reich was a 'banished' psychoanalyst and former disciple of Freud. Reich believed that people learn neuroses through authoritarian models in the family, school, and at work. Reich sought to remove the authoritarianism from analysis. Some Brazilian anarchists find Soma's focus on the internal effects of authority to be distracting and indicative of privilege. They expect anarchists to spend more time in the street, initiating action against authority. But, although many Soma participants are activists, they are equally interested in exploring of the psychology of action. Slingshot Article about Soma ! downlad a PDF of a Soma book in English
For those interested in exploring ways of struggling against oppression in ways that don't Zapatistas, touching on anti-fascist non-hierarchical currents in philosophy, criticism,
Working with Indymedia, Food Not Bombs and other non-hierarchical groups, Nick Cooper
The workshop provides an alternative to the history we have learned since childhood, of
70 years ago, authoritarianism's traditions and psychologies culminated in a pure form in Nick has conducted this workshop in Venezuela at the World Social Forum, in Washington DC at the National Conference of Organized Resistance, at Houston High Schools (Bellaire, Lamar), in São Paulo Brazil with the Ativismo ABC Collective (read an interview), in Bryan TX at the Revolution, in Houston with The Politically Active Students Organization, and the Art Car Klub, in Fayetteville at the Five Squirrels, in New Orleans at the Iron Rail bookstore, and in NYC with the Icarus Project
download a flyer: color, b&w
somadocumentary.com
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