MARISTELLA MARTELLA
Danzare la Terra
Dates: 1-2 September
Schedule: 3h per day | 2 days
Focus: Folk dance, Improvisation
Level: Open
The workshop "Tarantism - The Origins" combines the ancient practice of Southern Italian Tarantism with contemporary dance and music, providing an intense and dynamic artistic and personal experience. Participants will explore ancient rituals through contemporary choreographic language, merging tradition and innovation. In this workshop, the body represents a medium of creation and a reflection of individual experience, collective memory, and social context. These elements influence movements, postures, and gestures.
Dance, as a non-verbal language, conveys symbolic content, and through it, one can connect to their natural movements and life, expressing the balances and imbalances of their being. Through an intense process, the aim is to renew tradition, exploring popular cultural codes with a critical and creative vision, balancing the past with present dynamics.
This journey offers participants a unique opportunity to learn and create, transforming dance into a means of personal and collective expression.
Andrea Valenti
Catch Me
Dates: 1-3 September
Schedule: 2h30min per day | 3 days
Focus: Partnering, Tricks, Contact Improvisation
Level: Intensive
In this partnering workshop, we explore efficient and dynamic movement methods designed to facilitate dancing in pairs and groups. I have developed a series of exercises to foster clear, effective, and trusting communication between movers. This approach enables the creation of a continuous and stimulating connection, which can naturally evolve into acrobatic patterns.
The workshop begins with a thorough warm-up aimed at improving body awareness. Through a gradual and stimulating progression, we will focus on: the use of surrounding space, contact with the partner, disequilibrium, the directions of body weight, engaging with the partner’s body at different speeds, the role of the center of gravity, and the principles of energy conservation and angular momentum in partnering. This phase will culminate in the study of lifts, holds, and more acrobatic jumps.
We will use practices inspired by martial arts, tango, and contact improvisation to overcome traditional and stereotypical partnering roles in dance. Participants will have the opportunity to learn and practice specific lifts, jumps, and principles within a continuous flow of movement, favoring a non-muscular approach and focusing on the role of the skeletal structure in supporting movement.
Part of the workshop will be dedicated to improvisation, using the techniques explored earlier, and may conclude with a choreographic proposal.
Yasmin Iriel Frione
360º Movement
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Workshop + Final Showing
Dates: 1-5 September
Schedule: 3hrs per day | 5 days
Focus: Improvisation, Acrobatics, Theater, Instant Composition
Level: Open
Yasmin’s workshop is designed to cultivate a dynamic, adaptable body through technical movement and theatrical exploration. Participants will engage with contemporary dance techniques, and acrobatics to expand spatial awareness and unlock creativity through improvisation. The focus is on full-body integration, utilizing the backspace and multiple levels to enhance movement fluency. Additionally, the workshop explores performance presence, incorporating physical exercises and group dynamics to refine stage interpretation. Yasmin will guide participants through physical theatre and improvisation and dancers will develop solos, duets, and group work, culminating in a final presentation that merges technique, artistry, and stagecraft into a cohesive performative experience.
Rosa Dicuonzo
Sasha Waltz & Guests Repertoire - IN C
Dates: 3-5 September
Schedule: 3h per day | 3 days
Focus: Repertoire
Level: Intensive
The class begins with a guided improvisational warm-up, incorporating various exercises designed to awaken both body and mind, fostering greater coordination and awareness in our movements. We will focus especially on spirals and lines, exploring movement through space in both upright and inverted positions. In the second part, we will practice structured exercises and movement tasks, emphasizing body weight through control and release, as well as breath and rhythm, to enhance individual expressiveness. The final part of the class will be dedicated to learning choreographed sequences from Sasha Waltz & Guests Repertoire, allowing us to dance together with energy and joy.
Francesca Pedullà & Eric Acakpo
Ancient Kinetic Wisdom
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Dates: 4-5 September
Schedule: 2h30min per day | 2 days
Focus: West-African Dances, Rhythms, Voice, Improvisation, The Axis Syllabus
Level: Open
Ancient Kinetic Wisdom delves into the profound relationship between polyrhythms, song, and dance within the Vodoun tradition of Benin (West Africa). The Rhythm, Voice, and Body, intertwined, become a single language in constant metamorphosis. Through synergy, friction, emptiness, and fullness, we experience a continuous recalibration of internal rhythms, which gradually transform into a collective body. These cycles flow from the individual to the group and back, leading to personal expressive manifestation within a structured framework.
Using The Axis Syllabus as our common resource, we’ll explore a dynamic map to organize impulses and insights while offering tools for deep biomechanics analysis and reworking.
Throughout the journey, we’ll continue to ask: How do ancient values and practices adapt to contemporary society? Can ancient and modern performance practices enrich one another? How can we apply this knowledge in our own work?
