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Photo: Max Miranda

S-09 / The Body – The Player – The Journey

Workshop with Rafaela Sahyoun
In the frame of Open Spaces/Sommer Tanz 2019

Rafaela Sahyoun creates in her workshop a playful, physical, encouraging and deeply sensitive space to experience dance. Balancing joy of movement, lightness and deep awareness to the totality of the body in motion, in relation and in context. The workshop aims to unfold our intrinsic intelligence re- garding movement going through a variety of body qualities and states. Therefore Rafaela invites all levels of experience to join and create movement in real time, digging into presence and performa- tivity, building layers of trust both within our own knowledge and in the group we work with. Finding on the one hand autonomy to one’s own interest and movement practice and on the other hand equally putting it in relation to others. The practice will open our cognitive channels and lead us to develop movement strategies together and move towards a collective energy.

Rafaela Sahyoun

Rafaela Sahyoun is a dance artist based in São Paulo, Brazil. Her work shifts between performing, teaching & making. Since 2019 Rafaela has been a guest teacher and collaborator at Pera School of Performing Arts – GAU teaching the Bachelor's Degree in Dance as well as leading the auditions. Besides teaching, she has made two dance productions at the university: VAWM (20/21); Wheel of Radical Affection (2021). Since 2020 she teaches at the Post-Graduate Program Corpo: Dança, Teatro e Performance at Célia Helena Centro de Artes e Educação in São Paulo. Rafaela is a faculty member in the dance curriculum at ECO Teatral, a theater formation program in São Paulo. Since 2020 she has been a company member of Cia. Perversos Polimorfos (BR). She is featured in productions by Sara Shelton Mann (USA), Judith Sánches Ruíz (CU/DE), Renan Martins (DE/BR), Alessandro Sciarroni (IT), Morena Nascimento(BR),  Clarice Lima (BR),  Marco Torrice (IT/BE), Clair Lefevrè (FR/AT), Nigel Charnoch (GB), Willi Dorner (AT), and other people she admires. From 2015 till 2018 she was a company member of Jorge Garcia Dance Company in São Paulo. Rafaela graduated from SEAD - Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (Austria) in 2013 and graduated with the program Dance Studies at Trinity Laban (London) in 2010. www.rafasahyoun.com

Level: Open
In Englisch
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