Training: »The Transformative Body« with Maria Colusi
The interest of the teaching is to find new perspectives in how we think about the body and movement in the space through our presence, movement, interaction and choices. How do we embody ideas through shapes? What is behind our movement behavior and how do we act, develop and communicate with others? How do we move from the singular to the plural, from the internal to the external, from the private to the public? How can we recognize our identity in the way we move?
All these questions support and enrich the practice, allowing a different process to take place.
The first part of the class is a guided improvisational warm-up where we tune the body by integrating breath, gravity, textures, supports, rhythms, speed changes, asymmetries and coordination to create a dialogue between action and awareness of spontaneous movement. In the second part we will embody, explore and develop different movement tasks or ideas, articulating them in time and space, challenging the way we formulate movement and stimulating our choices and creativity. The third part moves the focus to the practice of instant composition, in couples, trios and groups, using all the elements we have been working with in a playful and precise way.
Biography:
Maria Colusi is an Argentinian dancer, choreographer and teacher based in Berlin. She was member of the Contemporary Ballet Teatro General San Martin,Tangokinesis Company and since 2003 of Sasha Waltz & Guests. She has simultaneously developed her own choreographic work in collaboration with composers, visual artists and musicians to transport the audience into a landscape of dance, music and stage design.
»Displaced / Angekommen« 2022, »When Painting becames Attitude« 2021, »Sink« 2019, »Querandi« 2018, »Tone undertow« 2015, »Topo« 2014, »Witness« 2013. As a choreographer she has worked with various directors and visual artists: Ola Mafaalanni, Holand, Kazuki Nakahara, Japan, Dominik Lejman, Poland, Alejandro Tantania and Luciano Suardi, Argentina. Her works have been performed in several venues as Radialsystem, ZAK, Dock11, Philarmonie Stettin, Kunst Festival des Arts, Berliner Ensemble, Theater kapelle, Schloss Solitude, Centro Artistico it Grattaclelo, Laborgras among others. Her artistic work was supported by Inicial 1&2 2022-2021 of the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Dis-tanz-solo 2020-2022 of the Dachverband Tanz Stipendien, Takecare- Darstellende Künste 2021, Stipendien SonderProgramm 2020, Einstiegförderung 2017 of the Berlin Senate, and Fundacion Antorchas, Argentina.
She teaches improvisation and composition workshops locally and internationally for companies, dance centres, and universities including: Marameo, Tanzhalle Berlin, Tanzfabrik - Dance Intensive Programme, Universtiy of Art Berlin, HZT- BA dance program, University of Arts, Argentina, UNA, Institut del Teatre ITI / Spain, B12 Summer Festival Berlin, Dock11, PRODA, Norway, Laborgras, Radialsystem, Die Etage, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Staatsballet, Berlin, Cdsh Hamburg /Germany, Associazione Europea Danza /Italy, Maslool dance school /Israel, Tanzschule mk /South Korea and Labcamp- Goethe Institut in Sri Lanka.