ContacTango Workshop with Leilani
21st & 22nd November
5 hours both days
10am - 5pm (including 2h lunch break)
>>ContacTango Workshop
Tango and Contact Improvisation are two forms of improvisation that have many
points in common, but also different points of views. The one supports the other in a
creative and technical process.
Technically we will work on the musicality, the axes and the walking as fundamentals
for recognizing the Tango. The structure of the body as support, the relationship
with the gravity and the awareness of the own center and the others, opening the
spherical possibilities of movement as fundamentals from Contact Improvisation.
The creative process will look for its source in the highly poetic images
from Tango and the less common, but not less poetical images from Contact.
Through the lesson we will create this dialog fully of play, music and images.
>>Interest and Registration Form
https://forms.gle/15Gr79bUXACSHMiL6
>>Price
Early bird (till 12th November)
Indian residents: 3,900 INR
Foreign nationals: 4,900 INR
Regular price
Indian residents: 5,500 INR
Foreign nationals: 6,800 INR
>>Contact
+91 8130019030 (WhatsApp Pandurang)
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>>About Facilitators
Miguel Strebel (Spain)
Part of the contact dancers, artists and creators of Barcelona. Dragqueen, musician and stilt walker who has been dancing for over 30 years. He is deeply interested in the rituality of performance and the health of dancing.
He brings a great humor and passion to his teaching and research, where his peculiar being comes out fully.
Leilani Weis (Chile, Spain)
I am a dancer, mover and researcher of movement as a creative process. I am very curious about my own body and others bodies dancing, together or alone.
I live dance as an act of presence and attention, where I receive information from myself, from others and from the environment. With these I can play, compose and create and feel great joy.
My work focuses on the mechanics of bodies on Earth and how it affects us. When I come into contact with others, with space I let myself be affected equally. The dance space, filled with information, is my place to practice presence and attention.
In the classes I try to open possibilities for practitioners/dancers to find their own organic, biological and natural paths, the ones the body possesses and we so often forget. I trust in the beauty and natural organisation of the body and seek its wise ways.
My work world is moving around, teaching classes, facilitating labs, performing, organizing CI events and creating pieces.
I have taught in several countries in Latin America, North America and Europe. Where I continue researching and collaborating with different groups of artists.
For 18 years I have been investigating the intersection between Contact Improvisation and Argentine Tango, two dances that I love deeply. In this research I have learned a lot about space and compositional musicality in the body. I am fascinated by understanding the depths of these two techniques and seeing how they can meet and disagree during a creative and compositional process.
I am part of the organisation of different events trying to create attentive containers where we can study and practice Contact Improvisation and the techniques that nourished it. (ItalyContactFest, IMMERSIONES, Contact Improvisation festival)
Leilani and Miguel met in Barcelona in the 2000 dancing Contact Improvisation among other dancers. They were part of the creative and performative collective of the City in those years.
In 2015 they met again to dance and create together, traveling, teaching and performing CI and ContacTango.
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