Contact Improvisation Workshop with Alessandro Rivellino

This weekend we have a special guest teacher from Brazil, Alessandro Rivellino! 🙂

Alessandro Rivellino is a dancer, performer, teacher, and researcher. His studies come from more than thirteen years of intense practice, and its main approaches are into somatic education, contemporary dance, contact Improvisation and butoh. He has been working with somatic education, contemporary dance, butoh, and contact Improvisation for more than 13 years. Have traveled many countries in South America and Europe, dancing and teaching in different festivals and countries, like Israel, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Denmark, Switzerland, Moldova, France, Spain, Ireland, Holland, Italy, Argentina, Brasil, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Uruguay…

He has participated in the Experimental Dance Group of Porto Alegre, Brazil, for four years as a dancer and then five more years as a teacher. He also acts as a multimedia artist with installations, performances, interventions, videos, photos and currently feeds a blog with experimental content. He has a Master’s degree in Arts from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

He has won indications for different awards, such as best director, best “new media” (three times), best dancer, best show (twice, both author works), best production, and has won the best dancer prize and the award of artistic excellence and research in contemporary dance, all in the Azorianos Dance Prize of Porto Alegre, Brazil. He has received different funds to study inside and outside the university and also for artistic creations.

“If you want to know my name is Alessandro Rivellino. If you want to know me better just forget it. I am dancing and teaching that dance is the teacher, for a long period. Time is an experience of time, I am walking slowly with the rhythm of the heart. My body is half heart. I love to jam and I feel contact as practice. This is what it is.”

About the workshop:

How to run with eyes closed?! This workshop will open the field for the dance to happen with trust and surrender for the forces that lead and crosses the bodies. How to fall in love with the dance, again and again?! Thin slices of presence can include layers of attention that can deeply open dancing. Light an soft.

Arriving from the somatic approach this work brings attention to arrive and develop an available listening body, with bases where the forms can arise as a consequence of being, not as a predictable path. How the body can fit the container? As water does?

>> 11:00 – 14:00 Contact Improvisation workshop
>> 14:00 – 15:00 Break
>> 15:00 – 18:00 Contact Improvisation workshop & Jam [16:30-18:00]

Price:
Full Workshop Alessandro 6h | 90 lei
Half Workshop 3h | 50 lei
Doar jam | donație liberă