INTERPLAY - POETICS OF BODYSTATES
Instructor: Andrea Hackl
Date: 6 March 2024
Time: 11:00-13:00
Level: Professional and advance dancers and professional dance students
Interplay is a training exploring dynamic movement through all levels in space.
This work focuses on the soft and vital power of the body that can be found within its fluidity.
We want to expand and not harden. We travel organically in and out of the floor, seeking to dissolve that distinction and rather focusing on fluid pathways that travel through as well as in and out of our body, through the entire space and, at times, into the air.
Through explorations as well as set material we dive into and play with varied physical, sensorial and kinetic qualities; subtle, almost cellular, activating the “internal” space and expanding towards big and spacious movements, flying through and eating space.
Be it in professional training or in the more open labs or workshops, my wish is to offer a playground and to create as well as hold the space to challenge ourselves with curiosity; to deep dive into the fluidity, agility and soft but energised power of our body.
ABOUT ANDREA HACKL
Andrea is a choreographer, dancer and interdisciplinary artist who loves dance and movement passionately and the poetry within the body.
She's been performing internationally in productions of other maker and presenting her own work as well as teaching at studios and festival world wide. She loves to teach and share her knowledge, exploration of and, especially, passion for dance.
Her practice and what she shares in frame of her training is deeply informed as well by her somatic and therapeutic work as massage therapist - this and as well two severe injuries have taught her a lot about the healing effect and the innate power that can be found through an awareness of breath and by diving into the body's fluidity.
* The course will be conducted in English. Classes open to advanced professional dancers are free of charge and participation is limited to 20 people. Regular attendance is recommended for 5 classes on 5 different days, but it will also be possible to attend a single class. Workshop registrations will be taken on separate event pages for the days on which the classes will take place. To participate in the classes, you can create your registration by using the "Register" button on the event page of the day you will attend and receive your free class invitation. Participants who want to participate in both days must register separately for 5 events. Registrations will open 5 days before the first event date (28.02.2024, at 11:00) and the "Register" button will become visible then.