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Center, Gravity, Rhythm: Global Forces in Dancemaking - Workshops at Mascher Space Co-op
Mascher Space Co-op is offering three weeks of Advanced / Professional Level Workshops as part of our 10 Year Anniversary!
September 14th - October 2nd, 2015
10am-12pm Mon-Fri
at Mascher Space Co-op
155 Cecil B Moore
Philadelphia PA 19143
$100 one week
$250 all three weeks
$25 day drop-ins at the door, as available
SPACE IS LIMITED! PREREGISTER BY SEPT 1 TO SAVE YOUR SPOT.
More info on mascherdance.org
WEEK 1 (Sept 14-18) - Flying Low
DAVID ZAMBRANO
The technique developed by David focuses mainly on the dancer's relationship with the floor, earth and ground. Simple movement patterns involve breathing, speed, and the release of energy through the body in order to activate the relationship between centre and periphery and between joints and skin. Exercises will focus on moving in and out of the ground more efficiently by maintaining the state of being centred. Emphasis is placed on the skeletal structure, which will aid to improve physical perception and alertness. The class includes partnering work and movement phrases, which explore the primary laws of physics: cohesion and expansion.
WEEK 2 (SEPT 21-25) - Repertory
NORA CHIPAUMIRE
This class is an introduction to internationally acclaimed choreographer/performer nora chipaumire's choreographic material used in development of her work, portrait of myself as my father. The work incorporates kinesthetic (physical), aural (vocal), and intellectual (scholarly) inquiries in the generation of physical language that helps situate more in the world(s) she inhabits. Choreographic material considers the following questions: what is portraiture? what is masculinity? what is the black body and what is its language? what is the African body and what is its language? This workshop is intended for advanced and mature dancers and includes themes particular to men of African descent.
WEEK 3 (Sept 28-Oct 2) - Dervish in Progress
ZIYA AZAZI
This workshop suggests a space for the participants where they can challenge their limits through whirling, stimulate their ability for the thrift of bodily energy, and through these abilities reach their goal movement within their own genre, spending less energy, with a higher level of awareness. Whirling is not the main objective of this workshop. The greater goal is to improve one's physical, emotional and mental awareness through whirling and the exercises prior to that. It leads the participants to perceive and accept what is befalling throughout whirling, and reach an innovative movement by means of whirling.
More about the artists:
DAVID ZAMBRANO has been making dance for over 20 years. In his pursuits as both a creator and educator, Zambrano has visited 40 countries, worked with more than 25,000 students, and has performed at hundreds of venues across the world. His pieces range from set choreography, structured improvisation, and pure improvisation. Born in Venezuela, Zambrano spent 15 years in New York, and now lives in Amsterdam continuing to perform and teach worldwide. His improvisation is committed to art as a cultural exchange developing the creative process in a world without borders. Zambrano sees improvisation as an art and choreography as a vehicle to further develop his work in improvisation.
Zambrano's pursuits as an improviser, choreographer, and performer have been presented all over the world. The most notable examples of his original projects of both solo and group work include: Twelve Flies Went Out at Noon (2005), Barcelona in 48 Hours (2004), The Rabbit Project/Proyecto Conejo (2003), Mandraking (2002), David Zambrano Invites(2000), Acme (1999), Ballroom (1996), Proyecto: Z (1994), Red Blink (1994), Agua Fuerte (1993), Cancion de Diente (1993), Sabana (1990), Fetiche (1987), and Para Carmen (1984). He also founded the Festival de Danza Postmoderna in Venezuela in 1989 and was its director until 1993.
Zambrano's methods in improvisation are influenced by the training he teaches around the globe. The most notable method is his Flying Low technique which examines the dancer's relationship to the floor, earth, and ground. These techniques are very sought after by festivals, dance companies and schools including: Movement Research (New York), American Dance Festival (USA and Japan), PARTS (Belgium), La Caldera (Spain), Impulstanz Festival (Austria), Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez (Belgium), Sasha Waltz and Guests (Germany), New York Dance Intensive (USA), AREA (Spain), The School for New Dance, Development (Holland), Dansens Hus (Denmark), Rosas (Belgium), La Anonima Imperial (Spain), Danza Abierta (Cuba), Danza Combinatoria (Cuba), Retazos (Cuba), Espacio Alterno (Venezuela), Neodanza (Venezuela), Taller de Danza Contemporanea de Caracas (Venezuela).
His performance work has been presented at or by: Movement Research Presenting Series (USA), Dance Theater Workshop (USA), The Kitchen (USA), Festival Aix-en-Provence (France), Tanzwerkstatt Berlin (Germany), Tamperen International Theater Festival (Finland), Improvisation Festival/New York (USA), Primer Taller Internacional de Danza (Cuba), Periferics (Spain), P.S. 122 (USA), CODA (Norway), Impulstanz Festival (Austria), Konfrontance (Czech Republic), Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church (USA), the Whitney Museum (USA), Theater Frascati (Netherlands), and many others.
He has been the recipient of many grants, awards and fellowships as well as having served on various panels and juries. They include the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Suitcase Fund administered by Dance Theater Workshop with funds by the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council for the Arts, The Jerome Foundation, and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Zambrano has been a panelist for the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Certamen Coreografico de Madrid, and the PARTS school for Contemporary Dance in Brussels. As a recognized artist of merit, he was granted special residency status by the Dutch government.
ZIYA AZAZI was born in 1969 in Antakya, Turkey. Since 1994 he has been based in Vienna, Austria. He holds Austrian nationality and speaks Arabic, English, German and Turkish. From the late nineties up to the present, Ziya Azazi's dance practices have been primarily based on experimental whirling and repetition, which reflect his personal, artistic, conceptual and motional analysis of traditional Sufi dance. He searches for the simultaneous representation of contradictory perceptions of physical awareness and a high state of ecstasy, experimenting the intensities of speed and tension made possible through whirling. He aims at transforming the usual whirling dervish image and the classical Sufi dance into a spectacular form, thus proposing possibilities for personal ritual, that do not rely on the boundaries of existing belief systems. His work searches for the Dervish at a high level of speed, tension and emotion, and creates a space for the viewer to encounter and experience these moods. Through his performances, Ziya Azazi seeks to represent the moment of realisation when the Dervish begins to enjoy his/her achievement through the joyful and ecstatic repetition of whirling: the looping and spinning which leads to trance.
Between 1986-1991 he studied mining engineering at Istanbul Technical University. During the university years he studied gymnastics. From 1990 till 1994 worked with the State Theatre of Istanbul where he created his first choreographic works. Between 1994 and 1998 he worked at Tanz Atelier Sebastian Prantl (TAW), Tanz Hotel, and Willi Dorner besides few other companies. In 1999 he was awarded a scholarship by Summer Dance Week Vienna (Dance Web), including an honorable mention by the Ballet International Magazine as "The Most Outstanding Dancer of the Year in Austria" with his full-program performance Unterwegs Tabula Rasa. Between 2000 and 2002 he had engagements with Vienna Volksoper, Austria; Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Germany; and the Grand Théâtre de Genéve.
The festivals at which he has performed include Bregenzer Festspiele, Bregenz; Festival d' Aix-en-Provence, OrienteOccidente Festival, Rovereto; Fadjr International Theatre Festival, Tehran; Mimi Festival, Marseille; Impulstanz Festival, Vienna; Festival de Solos y Duetos, Caracas; KIT, Copenhagen; Polyzentral, Hamburg; I-DANS Solists, Istanbul; Les Eclats Choreographiques, Niort; Biennale de la Danse, Paris; International Baltic Ballet Festival (opening performance), Riga; SPAF, Seoul; CanAsian, Toronto; Fes Sacred Music Festival, Fes; Delhi International Arts Festival, Delhi.
Selected Open-Air Festivals: Dias de Danza, Barcelona; Sziget Festival, Budapest; Châlon dans la Rue, Chalon; Theater op de Markt, Hasselt; X-trax, Manchester; TAC, Valladolid. Festival Internacional de Teatro, Manizales. Among other significant contemporary art spaces, he performed at Troppentheater, Amsterdam; Golden Orange Film Festival, Antalya; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; SECS (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Ceará, Paraná), Brazil; La Monnaie, Brussels; Grand Théâtre de Genève, Geneva; Museum of Modern Art, Houston; St. Irene Church, Istanbul; National Library, Barbican Centre, Trafalgar Square, Paralympic Opening Ceremony, Olympic Stadium, London; Colony Theater, Miami; Opera de Nice, Nice; Théâtre du Châtelet, Maison de la Culture du Japon, Centre National de la Danse, Paris; Centre Chorégraphique National, Roubaix; St. Pölten Festspielhaus, St. Pölten; National Museum, Singapore; Volskoper, Vienna; Kennedy Center, Washington DC.
He performed at the presence of royal family members of the Denmark, Morocco, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Thailand. As well as in numerous European countries he has performed in Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Korea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Cyprus, Palestine, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, USA and Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
Beside the performances Ziya Azazi shared his experiences and knowledge with public in academic and non- academic settings. He has given workshops in following cities: Vienna (A); Sao Paolo (BR); Toronto (CAN); St. Gallen (CH); Bogotá (COL); Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg (D); Quito (ECU); Cairo (EG); Arles, Avignon, Brives la Gaillard, Clermont Ferrand, Dunkerque, Le Creusot, Roubaix, Paris, Toulon (FR); Beirut (LB); Klaipeda (LT); Amsterdam, Utrecht (NL); Mondovi, Venice, Manresa, Nice (I); Portimao (PT); Cape Town (SA), Sinop, Istanbul (TR); Caracas, Cumana (VEN) and Harare (ZIM).
NORA CHIPAUMIRE Born in Mutare, Zimbabwe and currently a resident of New York City, Nora Chipaumire has been challenging and embracing stereotypes of Africa and the black performing body, art, and aesthetic for the past decade. She has studied dance in many parts of the world including Africa (Senegal, Burkina Faso, Kenya, and South Africa), Cuba, Jamaica and the U.S. A graduate of the University of Zimbabwe's School of Law, Chipaumire holds an M.A. in Dance and M.F.A. in Choreography and Performance from Mills College (CA).
Ms. Chipaumire is a 2015 Doris Duke Artist Fellow. She is also a 2012 Alpert Award in the Arts recipient and 2011 United States Artist Ford Fellow. She is also a two-time New York Dance and Performance (aka "Bessie") Awardee: in 2008 for her dance-theater work, Chimurenga, and in 2007 for her body of work with Urban Bush Women, where she was a featured performer for six years (2003-2008) and served as Associate Artistic Director (2007-2008). She is the recipient of the 2009 AFROPOP Real Life Award for her choreography in the film, Nora. She has also been awarded the 2007 Mariam McGlone Emerging Choreographer Award from Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, and a MANCC Choreographic Fellowship in 2007-2008.
Recent works include The Last Heifer (2012), commissioned by Danspace Project for Platform 2012, Parallels; Visible (2011), commissioned by Harlem Stage and created in collaboration with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar; Kimya (2011), a work for Jokajok!, a female ensemble based in Kenya; I Ka Nye (You Look Good) (2010), created and performed with choreographer Souleymane Badolo and musician Obo Addy; Silence/Dreams (2010), created and performed with Fred Bendongue and named one of the ten best dances of 2010 by the New York Times dance critics; and lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rains will break, gukurahundi (2009), created and performed with Thomas Mapfumo (selected as Best Dance Concert of 2011 by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). She is featured in several films, including Dark Swan (dir. Laurie Coyle, 2011); the award-winning, Nora (dir. Alla Kovgan & David Hinton, 2008); and the documentary Movement (R)evolution Africa (a story of an art form in four acts) (dir. Joan Frosch & Alla Kovgan, 2006).
Ms. Chipaumire has been an adjunct faculty member at Arizona State University-Tempe, Bennington College, the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, and Barnard College.
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