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DELICIOUS MOVEMENT
ResExtensa offers workshops, masterclasses and courses
in various situations and with different aims. From teaching
professional and semi-professional dancers and actors, to
workshops in schools, in high risk areas, and in the sphere
of theater and handicap, ResExtensa believes in the importance
of dance and theater dance as unique means to express, discover
and strengthen one’s true self.
The possibilities are: contemporary technique, theater dance,
direction and the theatrical writing of a movement performance,
performance improvisation, experiential anatomy, light design.
Contemporary dance and theater dance experiment the multiple
varieties of energy and expressivity of movement and give
room to individual potential. Not referring to virtuos movement
or pre-fixed aesthetic canons as primary points of importance,
and analizing constantly the qualities of motion, the eclectic
and poetic potential of dance gains ever more strength.
The central elements are form, time, gravity, the dynamic
relationship between the body and the space within which
it moves, the mechanics and the qualities of movement, the
relation to music, sound and word, the images evoked, the
relation with the earth, with one’s own weight, with
the weight of others, and how these enter into the refinement
of what one wants to say/narrate.
The objective of the didactic part of ResExtensa is to
activate a formation process, and to enrich the perceptive
culture, giving in addition to the dance and theater dance
education, also the awareness to be able to live the relation
with one’s own body in a freer and more harmonious
way.
In the lessons, the personal capacity to relate specifically
and consciously to movement, in its anatomical and dynamic
aspects will be deepened throught technique and the creative
process that involves also the use of theatrical direction
and writing, and the use of scenes, lighting and costumes.
The aim is to strengthen the dancing and expressive languageof
the participants, integrating the choreographic research
with technical exercises, the use of gravity and earth,
improvisation, contact work and group choreographic works.
The work can include the use of voice, texts and objects,
to discover the important relation between movement and
physical action, physical emotion and dance. |
