This workshop will focus on the fulcrums of the human body in space. We’ll try to imagine our movements as an elastic deformation of the body, starting from the ground anchorage thus looking for and finding new forms and structures. A “game” based on what seems to be a cluster of dichotomies: stability and instability, weightlessness and ground anchorage, giving and receiving, roots and wings.
Our confidence in the ability of our skeleton to support us and to support our partners will be enhanced by trying to listen to, and manage our inner movements, timing and the rhythm of the different parts of our body. Our goal will be to perceive the rhythm and the movement of our partner through the contact, the art of playing, the surprise and the improvisation.
About the artists
LEONARDO LAMBRUSCHINI
Theatre and dance performer, he teaches Contact Improvisation in Italy and abroad. He leads experimental workshops and courses in Movement and Improvisation for children, adults and disabled people in Italy and abroad. Co-founder and Art Director at Spazio Seme - an international arts centre in Arezzo focused on artistic research, training and productions about movement - he is one of the organizers of the ItalyContactFest.
CATHERINA GYNT
Performer, painter and tattoo artist. Graduated at Academy of Performing Arts in Turin. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and Perugia. She worked as an assistant with Don Marasigan and Philippe Pierson in Turin. In 2012 she took part at the experimental laboratory of Simona Bucci (Alwin Nikolais Technique) in Florence. From 2013 she is a member of the company Spazio Seme, in Arezzo. Teacher of dance theater & tarantism at ADA Academy in Arezzo, his artistic research is moving among painting, installation and performance.
Booking info
To book a place in this Festival Class please contact us by phone or by email.
Admission £3.