Gravitational Bond - Two Continents, One Shared Dance Floor

Move, create, and connect—across continents!

Join us for a hybrid Gravitational Bond session linking San Francisco and Barcelona.

Dance, play, and improvise in person, on Zoom, or through Temi the robot, our bridge between the two cities! 🤖

Co-facilitated by Kadir and Paula, this session is a live portal between Decentered Arts (1175 Folsom St, SF) and Espai Jove Les Basses (Carrer del Teide, 20, Barcelona). We’ll play games with friends across the sea and explore ways of connecting with people right next to us—and those six thousand miles away.

We’re excited to share our partner and group exercises in a joyful, exploratory experience where collective creativity is supported and nurtured.

Pick your city—SF or Barcelona—and jump in for this interactive movement adventure!


Bios:

Kadir Uyanik is a movement artist, robot whisperer, and improvisational acrobat based in San Francisco. Today, Kadir teaches partner acrobatics at AcroSports, where classes blend trust, laughter, and the occasional (graceful) fall. Their creative work lives at the intersection of akros (Greek for “the body parts we use to interact with the world”) and affordances (what a body can do in relation to the floor, objects—including robots—and other people). They have collaborated with AXIS Dance Company, Lighthouse for the Blind, and Elder Ashram to create movement experiences rooted in co-creation, inclusion, and the joyful mess of shared exploration.

Paula Planas Melgar is a mover from Barcelona. Her nomadic childhood set her dancing in motion—and she truly can’t stop moving. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Dance at the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg (Germany) and later traveled to California in search of more human and less academic forms of movement, where she met Kadir, and they’ve been collaborating since then.

Paula worked as a freelancer with dance companies in Germany and independent choreographers from Chile, India, Israel, Norway and Spain. Her creation as a soloist Bringing the Mind Home was a finalist in Talaiotica dance contest in Spain, and it was performed in several theaters in Denmark and Germany. She took workshops with scholarships she has been offered from Akram Khan company, Fighting Monkey, Pilobolus and David Zambrano. Paula believes the body has a unique way to heal itself when time and space are given. She wants to dig into the depths of movement as an endless exploration of collective joy.

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