Rita&Damian

Dance

• Dance at its completion is a fully sensed and felt through physical activity. Independent of the dance style or technique, it demands from the dancer a continuous exchange of information between physical knowldedge that is already embodied and a conscious perceptual inquiry. The challenge is   to keep the process of perception ongoing and to focus on the quality of movements too rather  than just the quantity. Without an attentive focus on our sensations, this process gets easily blocked.
  
  In dance trainings/classes I keep a focus on our awareness and  sensory-motor abilities according to which the body functions in the world. Much more we seek to become aware of different body textures, muscle  and movement qualitites thus to sharpen our sensations, while we face exposure to movement.
  
  

  
  An extended start to the class focuses on activating our sensory-motor abilities, softening the joints of the body and building new inner pathways. The fluid quality of the body shall become sensible and visible, space in the joints noticed and flow in movements amplified. These structured improvisation exercises with the use of visual imageries will encourage the participant to approach movement on an individual level and offers space for individual movement exploration and musicality.
  
  After the warm-up, the class gently integrates the sensory-motor abilities discovered into set movement elements, sequences and choreographic phrases in and through different levels, expanding the dynamic possibilities of moving.
  

• Basic movement principles in dance like using spirals, turns, swings, weight shifts (from leg to leg and leg to arms and up-side-down), jumps, bouncing, twisting, leaping, letting go, falling are now integrated into set material through different spatial levels.
  
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  The class aims to sharpen the awareness for different movement qualities and to establish higher spatial orientation, speed, explosivity and different dynamics (rythmical changes) and to master dance movement and movement complexity without loosing our sensual information to balance body and mental effort - a sign of artistic intelligence. Mastering the ability to balance direction and letting go defines gracefullness within the art.
  
  The class is combining different techniques with personal interpretation and knowledge. Being a result of a personal research and experience, the training is influenced by Release Technique, Floor Work, Capoeira, Modern Dance (Limon, Laban), Urban Dance Styles and Improvisation (Contact Improvisation) and Gaga Movement Language.
  
  Dancing has the wunderful capacity to merge physical, cognitive and affective elements of human beings and a teachers job is to create connections between all these elements.