Gaga/people + Impro Workshop by Alejandra Jara
The workshop consist of two parts: Gaga/people class and Improvisation
GAGA, movement language created by Ohah Naharin, choreographer, and artistic director of Batsheva company. Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through your body. Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening your body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility while lightening the senses and imagination. Gaga raises awareness of physical weaknesses, awakens numb areas, exposes physical fixations, and offers ways for their elimination. The work improves instinctive movement and connects conscious and unconscious movement, and it allows for an experience of freedom and pleasure in a simple way, in a pleasant space. More info: http://gagapeople.com/english/
The Gaga class will be followed by improvisation and composition workshop. During the research we are going to go deeper into specific elements of the Gaga language and the use of imaginary to create textures in our bodies. The listening of our bodies will be the key to allow ourselves to let things happen to us. The work will be individual, in duos and even with the whole group. This workshop is great for dancers and non dancers.
Prices:
We sell 13 EARLY-BIRD-TICKETS for 95,- (until the 29th of June)
NORMAL-TICKET 120,-
1-DAY-TICKET 76,-
Only Gaga/people Class 22,-
Schedule:
Saturday°:
14:00-15:00 Gaga/people (also beginners and dancers are very welcome!)
15 min break
15:15-16:30 Impro Workshop (Open Level)
30 min break
17:00-18:15 Gaga/dancers (Open Level)
Sunday°:
10:00-11:00 Gaga/people (also beginners and dancers are very welcome!)
15 min break
11:15-12:30 Impro Workshop (Open Level)
30 min break
13:00-14:15 Gaga/dancers (Open Level)
TAKE CARE TO ARRIVE 15MINUTES BEFORE THE CLASS STARTS! NO ENTRANCE FOR LATE-COMERS. THANK YOU FOR RESPECTING THAT RULE!
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OUR TEACHER FOR THIS WEEKEND:
Alejandra Jara (Ale)
Performer, choreographer, dance teacher and certified GAGA teacher based in Cologne.
Alejandra was born in Paraguay, and is currently living in Cologne, Germany. After her training in classical ballet and Contemporary Dance in Asunción, she joined the National Ballet of Paraguay in 1999. With the company she performed for 9 years nationally and internationally working with various choreographers. Thereafter she studied for a trimester at the Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes in Cuba. In 2011, she finished her MFA in Dance at The Ohio State University and in 2012 she became a Certified Gaga Teacher in Israel.
Alejandra has received several awards, including the UNESCO Scholarship, and the FULBRIGHT Scholarship.
Credits:
Photo: Jeannine Alfes
