Workshops of the Biennale Danza 2023

The dancers and choreographers of the 17th International Festival of Contemporary Dance (14 > 28 July) will hold a series of workshops open to participants aged 18 and over. The workshops will be addressed to dancers with all levels of experience and professional dancers, and will take place on a daily basis throughout the Festival in the Sale d’Armi at Arsenale and at Teatro del Parco.

FRIDAY 14 JULY
10 am > 1 pm Arsenale – Sala d’Armi G
Oona Doherty
All levels

The workshop is based on repertoire from the show, working on elements and technique from the three scenes. Specifically the group will work with unison ballectic form as in the first scene, with flocking and acting techniques from the second scene and with strings technique as in the third scene.
All levels and dance backgrounds are welcome.

SATURDAY 15 JULY 
10 am > 1 pm Teatro del Parco
Victoria Shulungu and Joshua Nash (Far From The Norm’s dance company)
All levels

WEDNESDAY 19 JULY 
10 am > 1 pm Teatro del Parco
Botis Seva
All levels

Led by Botis Seva and core Far From The Norm Artists, you’ll be pushed hard and introduced to the signature style of the company, as you navigate your way through physical movement using a range of dance styles from Popping to Breaking, Krump to House. You’ll also get a chance to dive deeper into your understanding of BLKDOG by learning repertoire from the piece as FFTN artists will take you through different sections.
For all Advanced/ Improving and Intermediate dancers.

SUNDAY 16 JULY 
10 am > 1 pm Arsenale – Sala d’Armi G
Yaday Ponce (Artistic & Rehearsal Director / Acosta Danza)
Advanced

Created in the 1960s,  the Cuban Technique of Modern Dance finds its roots mostly in the Graham Technique and is the essence of the Afro-Cuban dances. It has created a renowned method and it has been the signature of the country's modern dance scene.
All the people enrolled on this workshop should have at least middle level training in dance.

TUESDAY 18 JULY 
10 am > 1 pm Arsenale – Sala d’Armi G
Andrea Peña (winner of the Biennale Danza 2023 callout for a new international choreographic creation)
All levels

The choreographic workshop proposes a vigorous and intimate process that challenges participating collaborators conceptually, physically, and personally and invites them to a collective questioning of political and philosophical ideals as the starting points for the creative process. The execution challenges each artist towards an embodiment and deconstruction of unusual states — . What is described as states — we question how they are internalized and externalized in coexistence with each other, with the aim to arrive at a physical language that is rhythmical, transparent, dynamic, virtuosic and vulnerable.

THURSDAY 20 JULY 10 am > 1 pm Arsenale – Sala d’Armi G
FRIDAY 21 JULY 10 am > 1 pm Arsenale – Sala d’Armi G
Annie Hanauer and Ruben Sanchez (Rachid Ouramdane’s dance company)
Advanced

Rubén Sanchez encourages immersion in a rhythmic language and the exploration of dance from an alternative perspective. In his classes he seeks the involvement of the student using a fun, demanding, flexible and very percussive approach to create a casual and creative atmosphere.
Annie Hanauer will lead a masterclass which begins with a contemporary dance warm-up, from her own practice, which includes set movement and structured improvisation. This will be followed by learning sequences from Variation(s), based on musicality, looping, and resistance .

SATURDAY 22 JULY 
10 am > 1 pm Arsenale – Sala d’Armi G
Studio Wayne McGregor
Advanced

Studio Wayne McGregor leads a masterclass that gives an insight into Wayne McGregor’s choreography. The class start with a high-energy warm-up followed by teaching of some company choreography and creative tasks that reflect the way Wayne McGregor works in the studio with his dancers.

SUNDAY 23 JULY
5 pm > 6:30 pm Arsenale - Sala d’Armi G
Tao Ye
All levels

In face of the kaleidoscopic paths on which one’s body could be explored, TAO Dance Theater discloses the meaning of the value over the ‘core’ of life, through repeated and accumulating active forces. This workshop is a ceaseless direction of practice, and it keeps fermenting in various stages of ‘storing-up’.

TUESDAY 25 JULY 
10 am > 1 pm Arsenale – Sala d’Armi G
Luna Cenere (winner of the Biennale Danza 2023 callout for a new Italian choreographic creation)
All levels

For Luna Cenere the essence of a performative act is kept in the unsaid and must be sought beyond what is visible,  into  a space made of memories, symbols, gestures and images as a  collectively shared knowledge. In this path Luna Cenere proposes the sharing of thoughts and practices that she carries out in her artistic and choreographic research. The physical indications are based on listening to the body and the genesis of simple and functional movements with which to enter into a relationship with space and the other than oneself.

TUESDAY 25 JULY
3 pm > 6 pm Arsenale – Sala d’Armi G
Michael Keegan-Dolan and assistant
Advanced

During this workshop, director and choreographer Michael Keegan–Dolan will share ways of working, developed with dancers, actors and musicians over the last twenty years, identifying practices that may be useful for their future creative work. Focusing on action, participants and tutor will work together with different elemental and energetic dynamics, explore the skilful application of the senses and play with rhythm, music and spacing towards the cultivation of a lively and healthy group dynamic.
Check the website  www.teacdamsa.com  for more information about his practice.

WEDNESDAY 26 JULY 
10 am > 1 pm Arsenale – Sala d’Armi G
Xie Xin and Fan Xiaoyun (assistant)
All levels

During the workshop the student will experience  Xie Xin's movements style in term of softing, releasing and floating, follow the sequential of the power, and floating of the breath and echoing the energy. In addition, the tutor will share the training methods of the Xiexin Dance Theatre, in order to  feel XDT's movement concepts and some training sections of the company.

THURSDAY 27 JULY
10 am > 1 pm Arsenale – Sala d’Armi G
Lucy Guerin assisted by a dancer of the company
All levels

This workshop will share current methods used in the creation of Lucy Guerin Inc’s dance works and will give insight into recent repertory. They will also explore how participants can arrive at their own process to effectively embody their ideas as they take on form and structure in real time and space.

FRIDAY 28 JULY
10 am > 1 pm Arsenale – Sala d’Armi G
Pontus Lidberg
All levels

The workshop will commence by a brief warmup taught by a company member, followed by repertory material taught by Pontus Lidberg and dancers, including some creative tasks directly related to the repertory.

Application requests are subject to availability; workshops require registration.
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