Photo by Ramon Rodriguez
Presented by CONSTANZA MACRAS / DORKY PARK
When:
30 April & 2 May 2025
11:00 – 14:00 h
Where:
Berlin. The venue will be announced to the confirmed participants.
Free admission
Registration online: https://forms.gle/53qyzXbdUvGd7FJ98
Please note that due to space restrictions we can only offer limited places.
An open presentation may be organized at the end of May.
THE TRANSFORMATIVE BODY / Improvisation and instant composition practice
The intention of this workshop is to find new perspectives in how through our presences, movement, interaction and choices, we texturise and recreate the space arround us. How do we embody ideas through shapes? What underlies our movement behaviours and in what manner do we act, develop and communicate with the others? How do we go from the singular to the plural; from the internal to the external and from the private to the public How can we recognize our identity in the sense of how we move? All of these questions support and enrich the practice allowing a different process to happen.
The first part of the workshop is a guided improvisational warm-up, where we tune the body by integrating breath, gravity, textures, supports, rhythms, speed changes and coordination in order to create a dialogue between action and the awareness of the spontaneous movement. In the second part we will embody, explore and develop different movement-tasks or ideas, articulating them in time and space challenging the way we phrase movements, stimulating our choices and creativity. The third part focuses on the practice of composition in a group form, using all the previously worked elements in a playful and precise way.
Maria Colusi is an Argentinian dancer, choreographer and teacher based in Berlin. She was member of the Contemporary Ballet Teatro General San Martin,Tangokinesis Company and since 2003 of Sasha Waltz & Guests Company. She has simultaneously developed her own choreographic work in collaboration with composers, visual artists and musicians to transport the audience into a landscape of dance, music and stage design. ‘Displaced / Angekommen’ 2022, ‘When Painting becames Attitude’ 2021, ‘Sink’ 2019, ‘Querandi’ 2018, ‘Tone undertow’ 2015; ‘Topo’ 2014; ‘Witness’ 2013. She has worked as a choreographer with various directors and visual artists: Ola Mafaalanni, Holand, Kazuki Nakahara, Japan, Dominik Lejman, Poland, Alejandro Tantania and Luciano Suardi, Argentin. Her works has been performed in several venues as Radial System, ZAK Dock1, Kunst Festival des Arts, Berliner Ensemble, Theater kapelle, Schloss Solitude, Centro Artistico it Grattaclelo, Laborgras among others.
She teaches improvisation and composition workshops locally and internationally for companies, dance centres, and universities including: Marameo, Tanzhalle Berlin, Tanzfabrik Schule, Universtiy of Art in Berlin, HZT- BA dance program, University of Arts in Argentina, UNA, Institut del Teatre ITI / Spain, B12 Summer Festival Berlin, Dock11, PRODA, Norway, Laborgras, Radialsystem, Die Etage, Sasha Waltz & guests company, Staatsballet, Berlin, Cdsh Hamburg /Germany, Associazione Europea Danza /Italy, Maslool dance school /Israel, Tanzschule mk /South Korea and Labcamp- Goethe Institut in Sri Lanka.
Her artistic work was supported by Inicial 1/ 2 2022- 2021 of the Akademie der Kunst, Dis-tanz-solo 2021 of the Dachverband Tanz Stipendien, Takecare- Darstellendekünst 2021, Stipendien SonderProgramm 2020,Einstiegförderung 2017 of the Berlin Senate Administration, and Fundacion Antorchas, Argentina.
