How to become an Axolotl (AT) // Yolanda Morales
as part of the 10 Tage Freischwimmen Festival

A movement workshop with choreographer Yolanda Morales for people with and without dance experience

Samstag, 27.04.2024, 11 am - 1 pm
Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance

Participation in the workshop is free.
Registration at kontakt@theaterrampe.de

This workshop offers the opportunity to approach the choreographer's movement repertoire and discover her work using materials that form the basis of her latest dance pieces: Moving slowly increases the energy, concentration and precision of our movements. Moving slowly harbours the potential for more conscious movement. As part of the 10 tage freischwimmen urban space project, Yolanda Morales is developing her research HOW I BECAME AN AXOLOTL (more information under the heading "Urban space project"). In her workshop, she invites participants to approach the figure of the axolotl and its movements. The ability of its organs to regenerate has made the Mexican freshwater salamander a symbolic animal of the country. The workshop teaches movement tools such as dynamic stillness, flowing movement development through the alternation of speeds and the zoom perspective, i.e. the magnification of movement in dynamic stillness. Together we create a living image.

Yolanda Morales, born 1984 in Chiapas (Mexico), is a choreographer, dancer and performer. She trained in dance in Mexico and completed a Master's degree in Performance Studies at the University of Hamburg. In her choreographic works, she deals with imaginary bodies in utopian and dystopian spaces that are closely interwoven with current political and social realities. Yolanda Morales is currently part of the FREISCHWIMMEN network, works as a guest choreographer at the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg CDSH and is one of the choreographers in residence at K3 Tanzplan Hamburg for the 23/24 season.

A cooperation with the Theater Rampe and the 10 Tage Freischwimmen Festival from 25.04. - 04.05.2024

Profi-Training Contemporary Dance // Intensivwoche with Nadine Gerspacher

Mo, 29.04. - Fr, 03.05.2024
at Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance

Dates:
Mon, 29.04.24, 10 - 11.30 am
Tue, 30.04.24, 10 - 11.30 am
Wed, 02.05.24, 10 - 11.30 am
Fri, 03.05.24, 10 - 11.30 am

Costs: drop in class 90 min: €10, reduced €5 (PZ members, pupils and students)

The professional training programme is aimed at professional dancers. Artists from related fields and dance enthusiasts with the appropriate level of training are also welcome.

Training

Nadine's work explore contemporary dance, incorporating movement tasks and situations that playfully connect people and focus on the energetics of body language. She generates a warm atmosphere and inspires students to work intelligently and push the edges of their limits. The workshop consists of exercises to awaken the body and generate awareness of the entire physical instrument. Attention is given to breath, joint articulation, muscle tone and stability to improve physical strength. 

Nadine invites everybody to participate in technical exercises, including floor work, games and challenging phrase composition. Students learn to activate and ground their center in a way that allows them to experience optimal freedom in their movement. Partner work, guided improvisations and theatrical tasks highlight the class activities to support playfulness and creativity in movement and expression. Her physicality is defined by a raw, powerful movement balanced with a special attention to detail, particularly in the movement of the hands. Playing with different textures, switching from light to thick, her movement is a consistent search for surprises.