Shared Levitation Intensive

This unique workshop provides training in both Contemporary dance technique and Partnering. 1. Contemporary training:From Inside to Outside with Marion Sparber 2. Contemporary training: espaciocontinuo with Alan Fuentes y Guerra 3. Partnering Workshop: Shared Levitation with Marion and Alan This workshop will take place at Avalon Ballroom (6185 Arapahoe Rd, Boulder, CO 80303): Friday, Feb 1, 2019: 11:30am-2:30pm and 4-7pm Saturday, Feb 2, 2019: 2:15pm-5pm and 6:15-9:30pm Sunday Feb 3, 2019: 10:15am-4:30PM Pricing: *EARLY BIRD: $300 (Open until Oct 15) *Oct 15-Nov 15: $333 *Nov 15-Dec 15: $366 *Dec 15-event start date: $400 Information about the workshops and teachers: From Inside to Outside - Contemporary Training with Marion Sparber I teach Contemporary dance training with emphasis on floor work. We start the class by opening our channels of awarness. The warm-up is focused on passing through the whole body and expanding our flexibility and strength. We use the playfullness in our movement to connect to the natural flow of breath. With the help of exercises in different constellations - in a group, with a partner and alone - we listen to the weight of our body and direct it through space. An important aspect of the training is the attention to the momentum in movement and on integrating changes of dynamic and musicality in short movement phrases. As techniques of inspiration for my class I use a lot the principles of Flying Low technique by David Zambrano as well as release technique mixed with my personal investigation. I like to establish a collective mind and body inside the class to enhance the group power giving an energetic push to the individual source of creativity. espaciocontinuo: Contemporary Dance Technique Class by Alan Fuentes y Guerra espaciocontinuo makes a reference to the idea that we live in a world of constant change. Therefore we, as dancers, should be aware of this fact and allow our perception to be open and ready. Our attention needs to be sharp and we must be prepared to accept the change and go with it. I like teaching Contemporary dance technique with an emphasis on floor work; with the purpose of applying the sensations harvested from the floor into a vertical standing position. Activeness and strong physicality are important to me, so I keep an alert-open-sensitive state during the entire class. We start the session by warming up our whole body as well as our mental attention towards it. The beginning of the class is focused on amplifying the range of motion of all the articulations in the body from smaller to bigger, mixed with a playful way of working on strength and flexibility. The next step in the development of the class is in acknowledging and directing the breath, which should be connected to the movement of the body itself. In this way, we create a continuous flow that is intended to stay along the class. Improvisation, partnering, space awareness, attention of our body and attention to others are mandatory elements to every performer, so I make specific emphasis on developing these skills as part of the training. All in the end, espaciocontinuo is intended for the dancer to develop helpful tools in the path of self expression! Partnering Workshop: Shared Levitation with Marion Sparber and Alan Fuentes y Guerra We start the class by opening our channels of awareness and connect to our partner by manipulating, testing and speculating with his/her structure and weight. A special focus in this phase is the use of our whole body doing the task, not only being limited to our hands and arms. In this first part the use of play-fullness allows us to connect to our instinctive and primitive side, tuning into a shared natural flow of breath. With the help of exercises in different constellations, every time changing and adapting to a new partner and universe - we listen, follow and direct the movement as one functioning organism through space. We get ready to jump, cross, push, pull, avoid, embrace and suspend each other. We like to focus on an organic way of Partnering, based on action/reaction principles inspired by Contact Improvisation and Fighting styles. We like to access the movement from a perspective of a deeper connection and try to avoid the superficial habit of copying shapes. Instead we motivate every couple to find a unique way of communicating with the partner and look for individual solutions and variations of the material. Another important aspect of our class is the constant change of the level of activity for both roles. We learn how much resistance, power and direction is needed to reach our maximum together by investigating with the given tools, and finally learning fixed Partnering material at the end of each class. About the teachers: Marion Sparber Originally from South Tyrol in Italy, Marion is a professional dancer/instructor based in Berlin, Germany. She received her professional dance training at Varium in Barcelona and Iwanson Contemporary Dance School in Munich. As a teacher she has been working in several schools and festivals in Italy, Spain, Costa Rica, Russia, Portugal, Poland and Germany a.o at B12 Festival Raumstation Berlin, Munich DancePAT, Iwanson School Munich, Profitraining Freiburg, Profitraining Leipzig, Cyrculacje Festival, Ballettförderzentrum Nürnberg, Kari-Tanzhaus, Deltebre Dansa Festival, Academy Dancer Russia, University of St. Petersburg, Crimea Summer Dance Festival: Summer for friends (Russia), DASS Summer Workshop (Portugal), Varium (Barcelona), Marameo, Dock 11, Etage, Seneca, Danceworks and Tanzfabrik (Berlin). Marion has collaborated as a dancer with choreographers and companies such as Francisco Córdova, Physical Momentum in the piece "To be", Stella Zannou in the piece “Strange”, Sonia Rodriguez, performing “Mabel”, ADN-Dialect in the pieces “Zeitzone”, “Urban Shaman and “L’affaire Wettstein”, Eldon Pulak in "The Wetting Party" and as a guestdancer of Weedance Company. Her solo-work "The Ripe and ruin" and her group-pieces "Shell Shock" and "Impromptu" have been performed at several theaters and festivals in Costa Rica, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Germany. She is co-founder of the KpiqA-Collective and CuerpOCOllectivo and performed the duets “Eight”, „Porzellan-Haus“, „Acacia confusA“ and the trio "Nefelibata" in Spain, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Russia and Germany. Recently Marion got invited as a young emerging choreographer to “Certamen Coreografíco de Madrid, Paso a 2” to present “Eight”. For her last pieces „Impromptu“ and „Shell Shock“ with performances at Tanzherbst Kempten and Alps Move Festival Italy she received funding and support from "Amt für Kultur Südtirol" and „Region Trient-Südtirol“. In 2014 Marion was part of “EX-IN”, a one month intensive workshop with David Zambrano learning Flying Low and Passing Through Technique and took many years seminars practising and teaching this technique. Alan Fuentes y Guerra The Mexican dancer and teacher received his education in dance at the academy SEAD Salzburg, Austria, studying at the post-graduate program BODHI Project and at the EPDM in Mazatlán, Mexico receiving his Bachelor in Contemporary dance. Currently he is based in Berlin and is researching in improvisation and theater showing a strong connection with physical dance and movement. After graduating he could gather performing experience with several choreographers and companies: in the piece Shell Shock by Marion Sparber, performed at Tanzherbst Kempten and Alps Move Festival, Italy, performing in All Things Considered by Ralf Jarochinsky at TanzHerbst Kempten, Fragile Matter by Christine Gouzelis at the Battery Dance Festival, New York, Ubuntu by Sita Ostheimer at the Arab-Jew Community Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, in the piece Zeit-Bild by Etienne Gilloteau at the Tirol Festival, Hall, Austria, 4 visiones de paraíso by Cecilia Lugo danced at OC OHTIC, Merida, Mexico and in the piece Cristalino 9o cielo by Miguel Mancillas, Onésimo González shown at Guadalajara, Mexico. Alan was teaching espaciocontinuo in following schools and festivals: Dock 11 (Berlin), Marameo (Berlin), TanzRaum Wedding (Berlin), Cyrkulacje Festival (Poland), Fabrik Potsdam (Potsdam), Yizong Bagua (Cologne), Kari Tanzhaus (Kempten, Germany) and La Cantera (México).