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| photo by Aya Steigman |
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My experience as a teacher started teaching to teenagers as community work in a specific area from my city. Since then I have been teaching to children, adults, non dancers, professional dancers, actors, musicians...
I believe it is important to teach and share information with people who is not in the same art field or maybe not even too involved in the art work. In this way I find myself having to discover many different paths to deliver the information in a certain way that it is reachable, clear and it creates some response.
My own practice is in constant development from all works and peoples I share information with.
In my classes I usually take Release technique and floor work as a base to prepare the body for where I want it to be during the class.
During the sessions there is always importance to improvisation devises, even if there are set exercises there is always an approach or and idea that relates to improvisation to keep alive the journey of each exercise, movement or decision.
Improvisation devises are used to challenge the participants at the moment of taking choices and to not get stuck in pasterns that we all create as dancers. In this way we will try to surprise ourselves constantly connecting mind and body to explore and discover new ways of moving and being.
I am focusing a big part of my practice in weight, rhythms and dynamics and playing with all the possibilities and understanding of these three concepts. I like to see individuals and understand different bodies within the frame of the class.
Usually the classes have a gradual increase with physicality, I do try to bring the body and mind to a high level of intensity and concentration.
I use some principals of Flying Low technique to give an awareness of the space; thought the space and in and out the floor.
I am really interested in the concept of Counter-directions that I was introduces when I started some counter technique classes. Since then I took the concept and explore it in my own territory and interests. It is a constant study that I combine with many ideas and question , for example balance and off balance work.
I am also interested in Contact Improvisation, and usually I also use and introduce elements of it that might be useful in certain bits of the class.
As Roundabout Collective we deliver workshops where we put all the focus into improvisation. We bring what we have found or what we are studying at the moment to share it with others aiming to find new shapes to our ideas. We explore improvisation as a movement research, improvisation into performance and then we question what is performance. Taking this structure as a base we find many interesting information that has been constructed and deconstructed for people that we have been collaborating. For this reason we believe this information it is reach and versatile because it comes from many different human sources.
Discussion it is essential for me at the end of the class. I have the need to know curiosities, questions and thoughts from the people who I have been sharing the space for certain amount of time. For me it is a good way to keep our journeys in and out the studio alive.
Cultivating Curiosity it is one of the workshops I have been delivering.
link to some video material and task to the workshop:
