Agostina D’Alessandro / Meeting the other / Workshop
4-5.6.16/GARAGE29
MEETING THE OTHER is a workshop that will explore the foundations of partnering work or contact.
The first sense that the Human Being develops is touch. Already in the belly of the mother, this first sense is the beginning of our connection with the other. It is through touch that we realize the borders in between my body / your body.
When working on accessing our own body, we can’t avoid the fact that this very first experience – of being in contact with another – has left a memory in our cells, certain knowledge. This primal information is a skill acquired through experience and ready to be “re-connect”, in order to serve the ability of being in contact with another body and, eventualy, create a duet.
The first part of the day we will work on warm up the body (and the mind) through deep manipulation. This manipulation is always guided by two basic principles: to open and release the body in order to let the movement grow organically
The second part of the day we will integrate this « body quality » into duets, while working to develop and increase the following skills:
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Define a particular quality of touch-ing
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Being specific and smart in reading the information that can emerge through touch (direction, trajectory, texture and intention of the movement)
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Using the other’s body to create your movement material
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Being precise with the choices we made: push, pull, reject, go with, etc
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Focusing our eye in “what is being produce in the instant” (Dramaturgy)
This workshop is for professional dancers and dance students with at list 3 years of dance experience.
Agostina D’Alessandro (ARG/ITA) is a contemporary dancer, improvisor, teacher and choreographer.
In Europe she has worked with Julyen Hamilton Company– Allen’s Line (http://www.allensline.com/) since 2009 until now, performing the pieces “Sand & Vision” (Brussels), “LOCAL TALK” (Paris/Bruxelles & Strasbourg-IMPREVU Festival, “LE VOYAGE” (Paris & Bruxelles) & “THE ARRIVAL” (Bruxelles).
In 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 studied with severals companys: Ultima Vez, Isabella Soupart, Troubleyn 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 Bailleux 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), Abstract Entity (2015), Mine Is Yours (2016).
She is also a founding member of SoloConversations Dance Collective (www.soloconversations.org) that just finished its second piece: The Grave Is Yawning (Mars 2016).
She has taught workshops of release technique and improvisation for performance in Belgium, Mexico, Holland, Argentina, Croatia and Spain.
