taller/workshop: técnica personal / personal technique

The personal dance technique training is based on the understanding of technique as an ever-developing and transforming process for improvement.
The work starts with the unlocking of the different systems of the body towards a fluent dialogue among them to be able to develop an inclusive and integrated technique. This part of the practice is developed through floor exercises of rolling, spiraling, stretching, rocking, bouncing as well as sliding pushing and pulling basics of floor work. The voice channel is opened through breathing, yawning, talking, singing the movements to loosen up locked areas from the inside. The unlocking aims to open up the perception of the body as a whole and avoid the work through habits in movement and thoughts.
A second moment of the practice, starts with the exploration and research of dancing abilities through given tasks. The different systems of the body: organs, sensory motor, nervous system, muscle, bone, skin, seen as a material for work will be challenged in relation to time and space input like weight, volume, inertia, speed, centrifugal and centripetal forces. Meeting actions like turning, balancing, jumping falling, lifting, swinging, and so on. In this way the different structures of the body will be approached through specific challenges and studied in detail individually and collectively.

A third part of the practice is the use of skillful movement abilities for the making of dances. A specific combination of movements and images will be given towards a dance, which will be approached in different ways through the earlier individual processes of the materials.
To this can be added the flexible work with music in the practice of applying the combination to life or recorded music. The focus then will be placed on the ways of approaching music to enhance and enrich our technique.

The different moments of this practice can be included in one workshop or treated separately following the needs of the specific group of dancers.The work is informed by my training in the whole diversity of modern and postmodern dance techniques, martial arts, Alexander technique, somatic movement, body mind centering, contact improvisations. And greatly influenced by my studies with Mathilde Monnier, Benoit Lechabre, Julyen Hamilton, Chrissa Parkinsson, Martin Kilvady among others