AGOSTINA D’ALESSANDRO / Awakening the body intelligence / WORKSHOP
4-5.07.15 Garage29
This workshop is a two days fully immersion into the exploration of the body capacities and how to increase them.
As professional dancers we have an enormous amount of knowledge accumulating in our bodies. Using a very specific method we will awaken these abilities and work on integrating them into our dance vocabulary, discovering and increasing the potential of our creativity.
The first part of the day we will work on warming up the body (and the mind) by a deep manipulation. This manipulation is always orientated through two basic principles: to open and release the body in order to let the movement organically become “virtuosity”.
The second part of the day will be used to explore some essential physical principles such as weight and alignment in order to “follow the movement that is happening” instead of making it.
Then we will integrate this body quality the instantaneous composition creating small group pieces.
Dates: July 4th & 5th
Hours: 10h to 17h
Studio: Garage29 –
Location: Rue de Moerkerke 29 / 1030 Brussels
Price: €85 Early Bird (before 21/06) / €100
Info and registration: raquelodena@
AGOSTINA D’ALESSANDRO is a contemporary dancer, improvisor, teacher and choreographer.
In Europe she has worked with Julyen Hamilton Company- Allen’s Line (http://www.allensline.com/) performing the pieces “LOCAL TALK” (Paris/Bruxelles & Strasbourg-IMPREVU Festival, “LE VOYAGE” (Paris & Bruxelles) & “THE ARRIVAL” (Bruxelles); 2005-2011 she works with T.R.A.S.H Company (Holland) in the following productions: PORK-IN-LOOP & ZOFIA performing in Hollande, Belgium, Spain & France.
She participate in severals projects as : Les Ballet du Grand Maghreb, By Ana Stegnar & Saïd Gharbi, SUPERAMAS; Koshro Adibi IPL (International Performers Laboratory) and studie with severals companys: Ultima Vez, Isabella Soupart, Trubleyn Jan Fabre (Franz Marijnen), David Zambrano, Julyen Hamilton amongst others.
For her first dance piece “S-Main Gaushe” (2004), she has obtained the support of the “Mairie de Paris” and toured it to various dance festivals.
In 2012 she created DEMIURGO (http://vimeo.com/45212554) a dance performance improvisation piece who has premier in Buenos Aires at LEM & in PUENTES Festival at Bruxelles. As coreographer she also works in “La Loterie Erotique de Demoiselles” by Brigitte Baillaux and “Un cadavre dans l’oeil” by Guy Theunissen – 2014/2015
Since 2011 she teaches Improvisation & Composition at the Royal Dance Conservatory of Antwerpen (http://www.artesis.be).
In 2013-2015 she made performances as : RELOAD IN MOTION & ZÔGRAPHOS (2013), Suggested Emotions & VIRTUS (2014) and SYNCHRONICITY & Evoked Potential (2015).
She is also a founding member of SoloConversations Dance Collective (www.soloconversations.org). She has taught workshops of release technique and improvisation for performance in Belgium, Mexico, Holland, Argentina, Croatia and Spain.