13.11.2023—10.07.2026
Contemporary
Venue:
Kreuzberg 1
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
Dates:
Description
The interest of this class is to find new perspectives in how through our presences, movement, interaction, and choices, we texturize and recreate the space around us. How we embody ideas through shapes? What underlies behind our movement behavior and in what manner we act, develop, and communicate with the others? How we go from the singular to the plural from the internal to the external and from the private to the public? How can we recognize our identity in the sense we move? These all questions are supporting and enriching the practice allowing a different process to happen.
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 and coordination in order to create a dialogue between action and the awareness of the spontaneous movement. In the second part we will embody, explore, and develop different movement-tasks or ideas articulating them in time and space as well as challenging the way we phrase movements stimulating our choices and creativity. The third part focuses on the practice of instant composition as a group form, using all the previously worked elements in a playful frame.
Biographies
Maria Colusi
Maria Colusi is an Argentinian dancer and choreographer based in Berlin. She was a member of the Contemporary Ballet of the Teatro General San Martín, Tangokinesis Company in Buenos Aires, and Sasha Waltz & Guests, after which she began developing her own artistic work. Her practice engages choreography, sound, and perception as interconnected fields, with a focus on the body as a sensitive and relational system in constant transformation. Rather than representing form, her work explores how movement participates in the construction of experience and reality in real time. Her work has been presented at venues and festivals including DOCK11, Soundance Festival ACUD Theater, Mercurio Festival Palermo, Once Festival Freiburg, and Delphi Theater. She has received grants and support from the Akademie der Künste, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, and the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland through DIS-TANZEN.