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A space to reconnect with water, body, and instincts. Through somatic freediving, water dance, and embodied filmmaking, we explore new rhythms of creativity.

29/06/2026

Sometimes the first step is simply making space for what is calling you.

If Blue Motion resonates, this is a gentle invitation to join us.

Early Bird closes July 15.

21 days in Dahab, Egypt, exploring somatic freediving, water dance, and embodied filmmaking through a practice of deep attention, movement, and image-making.

We hope to meet you there.

28/06/2026

remembering last year’s crew and the particular quality of attention we found together in Dahab — a place where the desert meets the sea at the edge of a continent, where the water is warm and the visibility endless, and something in the body just... releases.
the Red Sea holds you differently here. freediving becomes less about depth and more about listening. creativity stops being something you make and starts being something you receive.
missing these people. missing that water. missing what we became in it.
Blue Motion residency — October, Dahab 🌊

applications open → link in bio

13/06/2026

How does a project take shape through collaboration, mentorship, and place?

Dahab sits where desert meets sea — mountains of sand and stone on one side, the Red Sea opening wide on the other. Everything here moves at a different pace: slower mornings, long light, the kind of quiet that shapes how you work.

For three weeks, Blue Motion isn’t only where we train and film — it’s where we live. Shared or private rooms, each with shower, wifi, and AC. Meals are taken care of, so the only thing on the schedule is water, movement, and rest.

A warm pool close enough to step into between sessions.
A studio with the sea in view.
The days move between water, movement, and footage — but the in-between time matters just as much. Reviewing the day’s footage on a shared screen. Falling asleep to the sound of the sea.
This is the part that doesn’t always make it into the program description: the residency as a living space, not just a schedule. A creative coliving, shaped by Dahab itself — where the desert opens space, and the sea opens depth.

( plus a little BTS from our last residnency ! )

Applications for October are open —Spots are limited — apply via the link in bio”

12/06/2026

OCTOPUS — A 5-Day Deep Water Dance Retreat
Dahab, Egypt · 23–27 September
🐙 Become an oceanic mammal apprentice.

OCTOPUS is a five-day immersion into (Deep) Water Dance — a practice weaving freediving, somatic movement, and contact improvisation. It’s a reawakening of the body as a sensing, relational organism, remembering how to belong within water.

Like the octopus, we practice another way of knowing. You begin to feel yourself not as a separate mover, but as part of a living field: shaped by it, shaping it in return. Interspecies relation, fluid intelligence, cellular remembering.

Supported by freediving fundamentals, we dance between surface and depth — up to 10m — entering a living dialogue with the ocean. Through buoyancy, spirals, shared weight, and simple compositional scores, the body remembers a fluency it forgot it had.

This is an invitation to step beyond the human-centered view and rejoin the wider story of the Earth.
We’ll stay together in a boutique villa in Dahab — just ours, a small pod by the water, between desert and sea.

✦ No prior freediving experience needed — you’ll learn it here. You’ll want to be a comfortable snorkeler.
✦ Guided by Ola Hasia, Jess Hepin & Ruben Gepner.
✦ Limited places. Register now

https://www.bluemotion.live/workshops -b555c5fb89f2

04/06/2026

EFFORTLESSNESS — Water Dance Retreat in Hungary

Happy to return to one of the warmest and most beautiful pools I’ve ever danced in — Napmajor Water Arts Residency.

I’m inviting you to a 3-day water retreat: a chance to return to the water, remember your water body, explore yourself in a three-dimensional environment, and be embraced by warm water, movement, and touch.

🐬 Early Dolphin registration is open until June 20.

Grab your spot — registration https://www.bluemotion.live/workshops -3da557b2259d

04/06/2026

There’s a question that keeps surfacing in embodied filmmaking: 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒂 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈?

Most cinematography training teaches to observe — to be invisible, neutral, a window. But a growing body of practice is asking something different: 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒂 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚?

What if the filmmaker’s nervous system, breath, and attention are already shaping what gets seen — and the work is to make that relationship conscious rather than pretend it doesn’t exist?

This is the territory that scholars like Maura McDonnell and practitioners in somatic cinema have been mapping for years. It’s what phenomenologists call the “lived body” — the idea that perception is never abstract; it always arrives through a specific, breathing, sensing self.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty called it être-au-monde — being-in-the-world — the insistence that mind and body are not separate instruments but one integrated way of knowing.

Underwater, that integration becomes impossible to ignore. You cannot hold your breath and pretend to be absent. The pressure, the silence, the resistance of water against the lens — they pull the filmmaker out of their head and into full somatic presence.

What emerges tends to be footage that feels different, even when viewers can’t say exactly why. It’s not a technique. It’s a state.

At Blue Motion, we call this practice embodied cinematography. We work with it not as a theory but as a daily discipline — in the water, on the surface, in the edit.

The mask in this image is one frame of that investigation: identity held at arm’s length, examined, offered back.

🎬 Applications open — https://www.bluemotion.live/pricing

15/05/2026

Пам’ятаєте історію про те, як наші пращури колись вийшли з води на сушу? Так от, не всі вони вирішили стати нами. Одна гілка ссавців (найрозумніша, на мій погляд) вчасно збагнула, що дарма вони вилізли, бо у воді значно приємніше — і повернулася назад. Так з’явилися кити, дельфіни та видри. Ми з вами теж вийшли з води, але занадто «висохли» й забули, як це — насолоджуватися, розчинятися в обіймах стихії та просто танцювати.

7 червня запрошую вас еволюціонувати назад у воду через сольну практику та контактну імпровізацію (досвід не потрібен). На нас чекає 6 годин дослідження руху та плавучості у теплому басейні (+34°C). Фасилітувати процес буду я, Оля Хася, поєднавши знання з КІ, соматичного фрідайвінгу та Embodiment.
Як усе відбуватиметься? 🌿🌊

Що ж таке танець у воді?
Це імпровізований рух поза межами ваги та гравітації, де ми дозволяємо воді виконувати всю роботу за нас. Таке дослідження тіла в умовах плавучості — сили, протилежної гравітації — дозволяє на практиці прожити фізичні закони та опанувати зовсім інший, безусильний тип руху.
Це не просто плавання «від бортика до бортика», а глибокий процес розслаблення, де разом із поспіхом та зайвими думками змінюються і ваші стосунки зі стихією. Через цей новий рух ми відкриваємо досвід сповільнення та з’єднання із собою через ніжність і турботу, створюючи справжній танець, а не просто намагаючись кудись пливти.

📅 7 червня, 11:00 - 17:00

📍 Крюківщина (20 хв від метро Теремки)

💵 2500 грн (до 25.05) / 2800 грн (до 06.06) / 3000 грн (в день події)

✉️ Для реєстрації — пиши

01/05/2026

Blue Motion invitation
1-21 Oct 2026 / Egypt

A 21-day underwater mvmt & film residency in Dahab, Through somatic freediving, water dance, storytelling and embodied filmmaking, this immersive program offers a rare opportunity to study, experiment, and produce work grounded in oceanic care and creativity.

Early Bird Application is open https://www.bluemotion.live/pricing
full details are coming soon

Stay tuned.
We’re saving a place for you by the red sea.

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