Evoke Fusion Dance Workshop: Discovering the Story

Who you are is in your dance. We come together as dancers to excavate ourselves, to reveal and be revealed, to become one, to belong, to play, to be fierce, to be free, to be our authentic selves, to share our stories and create new ones, to be close with each other. Evoke Fusion Workshops are for dancers of ALL backgrounds, and Fusion dancers who want to expand their freedom of self-expression and improvisation in partner dancing while fine-tuning connection, presence, and musicality. Improvisational explorations from acting are infused with dance to evoke a deep awakening of the senses, opening participants to experience a wider range of human expression and intimacy of connection through music and the artistry of dance movement. February 18th is focused on discovering the story of the dance that wants to be told, surrendering to the story, which is evoked from the music, from the dancers as individuals, and in a peak state of creation together. When we build our capacity to become more and more present, and willing to accept what is in the flow, to allow ourselves to be affected, to reveal ourselves more fully, the more we can enter into a zen state that allows us to experience heightened intimacy, creativty and spontaneity in our dancing together. We enter the journey of discovery, not knowing what this song will bring to us, not knowing what our partner will share with us, if we remain open to go on the journey, we tell a story together through the dance. There is always a story being told, an emotional experience happening, and achetypes at play. From joy to sorrow, the range of being human is present to us as dance artists. Extrovert what is inside into the dance. Be authenic, be alive, be free, and most of all create authentic connection and be nourished by dances you share with each other. Through this focus, we deepen our access musicality, emotional presence & storytelling- while maintaining that peak ability to be in oneness with our partner. Although each workshop builds on the last one, they each stand on their own. We will continue to build on the elements of archetypes in ourselves and the music, as we deepen our emotional connection(aka empathy) and presence with our partners, allowing the music to influence us as we journey creating spontaneous stories with each dance. * Each Workshop has plenty of time built in for integration with juicy uninterrupted music sets for dancing at different times. Andrea Giammattei, your host and creator of Evoke Fusion Dance Workshops is thrilled to be teaching this next workshop with the incredible Tybaldt Ulrich. Tybaldt, a renound teacher and artist, brings a rich background to partner dance involving wide ranging culutral and genre dances. Like Andrea, Tylbalt also also shares a background as a musican and actor. See Full Bios below or in the discussion. To register fill out form below and email or call with any questions or to discuss: [email protected] Call or text (631-769-6046) $48 ($42 Early Bird by January 25th) Venmo @Andrea-Giammattei * Full registration requires payment and a google form waiver and agreements and must be completed before the workshop. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdewJJpkthWZcZGCbUFYY_xhxj_bgn6vmvjudKS7ZW9Igse7Q/viewform?usp=share_link Dancing For Life NYC | Facebook Pearl Dive NYC Fusion Dance: https://www.facebook.com/events/602601031876309 Photos Ismael Fernandez Photography | New York NY | Facebook Andrea has been teaching and performing for over 20 years. Andrea Giammattei has lead workshops in the US, Canada, and Europe. Andrea combines her passion and training in the arts of acting, theatre, and dance, and the discipline of psychology to create healing expansive opportunities for people to be empowered in their fullest expression and ability to be intimate and create community through the creative arts of dance, theatre, and other forms of the expressive arts. Andrea began dancing as a child to bellowing music of all kinds filling her home. Her dance background is eclectic and wide ranging with many forms and training over the years. Starting out with individual dance training from modern/jazz and tap, to ballroom and swing, to later falling deeply in love with latin dances particularly tango and salsa, followed by blues, west coast swing, and she is currently focusing on learning Zouk. She had studied with Gabriel Roth for many years, has an affinity for ecstatic dance. Both have infused freedom and purpose in her dance. Andrea’s “at last” true love of dance is for fusion dancing which combines all the art forms of dance infused with a freedom and a joyful irreverence. As a DJ, GiaSoul, she loves spinning music for dancers with her eclectic elixer of sets to evoke a journey within yourself and with others through the unique dynamics of fusion partner dancing. Andrea is also a co-organizer of The Pearl Dive- A NYC Fusion Dance You can also find her at Dancing For Life NYC for which she is the founder. She is a longtime member of the Fusion dance collective The Pearling Principle. Tybaldt Ulrich loves partner dancing, and has been dancing most days since the mid 90’s Most known for competitive West Coast Swing, Hustle, Lambada, and Carolina Shag, he has also studied with many masters of, (and professionally performed)- Argentine Tango/Milonga/Vals, Lindy Hop, Balboa, Houston Whip, NY Salsa, Country Two Step, Collegiate Shag, International Standard Ballroom, social American Smooth and Rhythm dances, Fusion, and Zouk. He has been teaching in NYC since 2000, with Emmanuel Pierre Antoine (EPA), Stepping Out, Dancesport, You Should Be Dancing, Salsa Salsa, Starlight, G&J, and ZenZouk. He has performed as a dancer or musician in numerous shows and competitions and shows on 4 continents, including the touring Swing show Swing Dance America, and mostly recently singing and dancing the lead role in the musical Bum Farto. He began as a musician, with a degree in Ethnomusicology from North Texas, where he began dancing, starting with performing traditional Ewe music and dance, eventually studying in Ghana and Togo, west Africa. He dances full time and has been teaching over a thousand lessons a year for the last two decades, specializing in partnership skills, and kind creativity grounded in music and dance traditions.