Workshops
The festival is a place for different artistic processes, workshops, lab and residens. International performing artists and dance companies from Gothenburg are opening up for residens and artistic labs. You can be the audience, participate, create and meet other people. As a dancer you have the chance to participate in master classes and workshops. Even if you're not a professional dancer you can join the workshop Gaga for the People!
Gaga/people
Photo: Gadi Dagon
Thursday Aug 25 14:30-15:30
Vara Folkhögskola
40 people
No entry, RSVP here.
Saturday Aug 27 11:00 – 12:00
Göteborgsoperans Lilla scen
50 people
No entry, RSVP here.
Movement workshop
Gaga is a movement language developed over the last decade by Ohad Naharin, Batsheva’s long-time artistic director, in the Batsheva studios. This expressive and dynamic movement language is used daily by dancers of the Batsheva Dance Company and Batsheva Ensemble as the basis for their distinctive technique.
Gaga offers a new way to reach a deeper knowledge and understanding of one’s self via the body and its movement. Gaga encourages, teaches and cultivates multi dimensional movement, efficiency and texture of movement, the use of explosive power, the connection between pleasure and effort, quickness, clarity of intention, stamina. It enables recognition of one’s own movement habits and helps to acquire new ones.
Essentially, Gaga increases one’s understanding of the body’s weaknesses and strengths, as well as its response to them. Through Gaga, one works to break down physical barriers in order to reach a greater comprehension and control of instinctive movements. Ultimately, Gaga empowers the experiences of pleasure, stillness, positivism, and happiness. The Gaga movement language is a tool that can be utilized by dancers and non-dancers alike.
Workshop teachers: Bret Easterling, Vara and Omri Drumlevich, GöteborgsOperan
Workshop Length: 1 hour
Dress for Class: Barefoot or socks. Comfortable clothes.
No viewers are allowed. The only people in the studio should be participants.
Gaga/dancers
Photo: Gadi Dagon
Friday Aug 26 10:00-11:15
Stora dansstudion, Högskolan för scen och musik, Fågelsången 1, 405 30 Gothenburg
25 people
Movement workshop
Gaga is a movement language developed over the last decade by Ohad Naharin, Batsheva’s long-time artistic director, in the Batsheva studios. This expressive and dynamic movement language is used daily by dancers of the Batsheva Dance Company and Batsheva Ensemble as the basis for their distinctive technique.
Gaga offers a new way to reach a deeper knowledge and understanding of one’s self via the body and its movement. Gaga encourages, teaches and cultivates multi dimensional movement, efficiency and texture of movement, the use of explosive power, the connection between pleasure and effort, quickness, clarity of intention, stamina. It enables recognition of one’s own movement habits and helps to acquire new ones.
Essentially, Gaga increases one’s understanding of the body’s weaknesses and strengths, as well as its response to them. Through Gaga, one works to break down physical barriers in order to reach a greater comprehension and control of instinctive movements. Ultimately, Gaga empowers the experiences of pleasure, stillness, positivism, and happiness. The Gaga movement language is a tool that can be utilized by dancers and non-dancers alike.
Workshop teacher: Ian Robinson
Workshop Length: 1 hour.
Dress for Class: Barefoot or socks. Comfortable clothes.
No viewers are allowed. The only people in the studio should be participants.
RSVP: Send your CV and a short motivation letter to info@dansalliansen.se. It’s free to participate. If you no longer can participate, make sure you inform Dansalliansen at least three days before class. Otherwise there will be an 200 SEK administration fee. Last day of RSVP: Aug 7.
Masterclass Wim Vandekeybus
Photo: Danny Willems
Saturday aug 27 11:00-15:00
Stora dansstudion, Högskolan för scen och musik, Fågelsången 1, 405 30 Gothenburg
25 people
Masterclass
Wim Vandekeybus is a choreographer and founder of the dance company Ultima Vez. During the festival his masterclass is held at Stora dansstudion at Högskolan för scen och musik.
During this Masterclass you will study the vocabulary from several Ultima Vez shows in order to understand the most important aspects of these performances. Participants explore and confront Vandekeybus’ energetic vocabulary through floor work, partner- and contact work and movement as a ‘theatrical act’ rather than as a ‘technique’. Wim Vandekeybus will speak about the ideas, concepts or sources that lie behind the movements and which are the starting point of some scenes or creations. You will get familiarised with concepts like: risk, trust, moving with necessity, instinct, fragility, softness, weakness, tension.
“I’m always changing and I know nothing for certain. But my inner intuition guides me to a place I could never imagine it existed. For this workshop I would like to share how dancing is connected to acting and vice versa. How fragility laughs at strength and how failing is much more attractive on stage than showing off. Everything is a process and it is good to be a sponge, so you can absorb. And I can be the water.” Wim Vandekeybus
RSVP: Send your CV and a short motivation letter to info@dansalliansen.se. It’s free to participate. If you no longer can participate, make sure you inform Dansalliansen at least three days before class. Otherwise there will be an 200 SEK administration fee. Last day of RSVP: Aug 7.
