Evoke Fusion Workshop: The Body Electric

Evoke Fusion Workshops are for dancers of ALL backgrounds, and For fusion dancers who want to expand their freedom of self-expression and improvisation in partner dancing while fine-tuning connection, presence, and musicality. Whether you want to explore new ways to enhance your current dance style or learn how to fuse your dance style with others(fusion dancing), these workshops offer a bridge to all dancers to develop their artistry and connection enhancing whatever dance you come from. 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. Improvisational explorations from acting and somatics 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. June 17th our focus is “The Body Electric.” EMBRACE YOUR POWER, DEVELOP YOUR PRESENCE, and HARNESS YOUR ENERGY through the ART OF DANCE. Embody the fullness of your energy and share it with your dance partner, while accessing a deeper connection to the energy of your partner. We will delve into knowing and dancing from our own internal urges that motivate us, as well as catching each other's energy, being affected by each other is truly a gift of partner dancing and dance improvisation. Some of the shared aspects of the artistic disciplines of acting and dance are developing the ability to be present, vulnerable, and available for our partners so that we are able to co-create artistically from authenticity and freedom of expression. This is at the heart of creating intimacy in our dances and follows our pure artistic impulses bringing who we are in the moment fully to our dance partnership. This workshop approaches the creative spark as coming from the inside out. Here we are getting to the elemental movements that come from within, and becoming more attuned with our own body and instincts through varied mindfulness practices helps us cultivate partner dances that feel like a shared dance of moving meditation. We will focus on the body and the senses, as we become closer to each other by being present and deeping our connection to our dance parnter by connecting with ourselves. As always, we are cultivating an environment where everyone is empowered to take care of their needs and boundaries within any dance partnering. Our workshops and events are values driven to create an inclusive and consent driven experince so everyone feels comfortable to be as open and as creative as they wish. Please see the registration/application which must be completed before attending the workshop. Through this focus, we continue to deepen our musicality, emotional presence & creativity- 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. Partner dance, like many art forms, but perhaps even more so because we create together through movement, is an allowing space for empathy to grow within us, and build an inclusive community. * Each Workshop has plenty of time built in for integration with two juicy uninterrupted music sets for dancing at different times. To register fill out form below and email or call with any questions or to discuss: [email protected] Call or text (631-769-6046) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8H9CMTpVGF6Vik8SEQRyPmSXB3dAPds2lKbRrhhL-UEejMw/viewform?usp=share_link -$48(Please inquire to request a sliding scale if you need it) Venmo @Andrea-Giammattei * Full registration requires payment and a google form waiver and agreements and must be completed before the workshop. Dancing For Life NYC | Facebook NYC Fusion Dance https://fb.me/e/KmiNkBbv 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, zouk, to name a few. She had studied with Gabriel Roth for many years. 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 that is quite addicting. 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.