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Vibrant Body
Kurs with Katrina Bastian, Soroa Lear
In my practice I am interested in uncovering and expanding the infinite universe living within each unique and individual body. By breaking down the body into its layers of skin, flesh and bone, we can create more space within the container of our body and radiate beyond its borders and limits.The isolation of different body structures allows for increased physical awareness and a growing sense of possibilities within our physicality. The practice builds up to a place where the body can operate as a whole by connecting all the layers within itself while still allowing for space to exist between them.Throughout the practice we surrender to the groove and vibrations we receive from music and allow ourselves to be taken by and merge with it. My practice draws inspiration from Sidra Bell’s methodology, Gaga, Dose of Pleasure by Alvin Collantes and my personal choreographic work among others.
Katrina teaches 9th of August, Soroa 16th of August.
Katrina teaches 9th of August, Soroa 16th of August.
Katrina Bastian
Katrina Elizabeth Bastian (she/they) is a choreographer and dancer engaged with endurance dance praxis that reflects and problematizes contemporary themes of consumerism, productivity, and binary conditioning. Leveraging her US-American upbringing through a deliberately hyperbolic aesthetic, she critically examines hyper-capitalist tendencies in the digital age. Katrina's innovative ROBOFLOW training technique, developed for her choreographic works, uses the body to understand and unpack AI's impact on modern life by deconstructing established movement patterns to create tension between technical precision and authentic response. With degrees from Reed College (BA Dance/Literature) and HZT-Berlin (MA Choreography), her work spans repertory companies, durational performance, dance-theatre, and professional voice acting. Her award-winning pieces include "Soliloquy in Sweat" and "CARDIAC; the heart is a muscle," supported by the Berliner Senat. Katrinafinds greatest joy in collaborative settings, devising embodied praxis that offers alternatives to neoliberal systems of value—positioning the body in a state of being as the ultimate form of resistance.
Soroa Lear
Soroa Lear is a Cuban-American dancer, performer and writer based in Berlin. She completed her studies in contemporary dance and comparative literature at Reed College, which sparked her interest in the intersections between critical theory and movement. In her practice, she explores the ways in which movement can enable a reordering of our subjectivity, allowing relationality, pleasure, and physical affect to determine our understanding of the self. In this centering of sensation, there lies the potential to become ‘undone’; to experience the body outside of its linguistic and subjected identity, and instead through bodily sensation. Her practice is heavily influenced by Gaga, contact improvisation and Berlin's nightclub culture - something she was able to practice and study thanks to a research grant she received in 2019. She has performed and worked with Oriantheater, Sebastian Abarbanell, Nora Tormann, and Søren Siebel amongst others. Her written works have been published by Penny Press and Confluence Journal.
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