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 a dancer the continuous exchange of information between physical knowldedge that is already embodied and a conscious perceptual inquiry.
  The challenge of dancing is therefore to keep this process of perception ongoing. Without such an attentive focus on sensations, the inquiring process easily gets blocked.
  
  How we choose to dance with gravity shapes our sense of self and our world view. In my dance trainings/classes, I keep therefore a focus on such sensory-motor abilities and awareness about how the body functions in relation to the forces of gravity. To become aware of, and work with different muscle textures and movement qualities, to sharpen our sensations, while we face exposure to gravity and movement.
  

  
  The beginning of 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 combined with the use of visual imageries will encourage the participant to approach movement on an individual level and offers space for individual movement exploration, musicality and fantasy.
  
  After the warm-up, the class 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 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 into movement are integrated here into set material through different spatial levels.
  
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  The class aims to deepen the awareness for gravity and the subtle qualities of movement it inspires: sharpening spatial orientation, speed, explosive energies, and a playful sense for shifting dynamics and rhythms. It is balancing body and mind, effort and ease — hallmarks of true artistic intelligence.
  
  My work  combines 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. It is the ability to balance the active directions and letting go, that defines gracefullness within art.