Gaga is a movement language which Ohad Naharin developed over the course of many years and which is applied in daily practice and exercises by the Batsheva Dance Company members. The language of Gaga originated from the belief in the healing, dynamic, ever-changing power of movement, and it continues to evolve today. 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, in comfortable clothes, accompanied by music, each person with himself and others.
This summer we have once again additional excitement for our C level students. Monday of each week the dancers will be observed and some will be invited to join onstage training with the performing companies of Bolzano Danza! This is an excellent opportunity for exposure and connection to the professional dance world!
Everyone is welcome to join in these classes. This opportunity to cross into inclusion within these different styles will certainly initiate a newfound appreciation of dance for all! In the effort to be as available as possible to as many individuals as possible, also this year we offer a few courses with the level "I": “I” stands for “Inclusive” which we define as dance activities which are designed to meet the needs of everyone in the class, regardless of ability, with a focus on exploring and developing individual creativity and physical potential.
Alessandra Tirendi presents popular highlights of her dance classes for children from 6 to 10 years: Warm-ups, coordination exercises, choreographies for younger and older children, improvisation ideas in combination with a picture book ("What colour does a kiss have?") and games that can be used at the end of the class. Alessandra teaches technical exercise elements of contemporary dance, room-filling improvisations and playful elements that awaken the children's joy and imagination.
The Group Motion Workshop is a non stop guided process of dance/movement improvisation with live music. Based on structures and scores created and developed by Brigitta Herrmann and Manfred Fischbeck, the Workshop combines highly refined structures of improvisation, movement meditations, and contact dance. It is an outgrowth of their work with the Group Motion Dance Company originated in 1971. It is being conducted regularly every friday night in Philadelphia for over fifty years and has toured to festivals, dance centers, colleges and schools in the US and other countries all over the world. This tradition is now being implemented and carried on by Berlin based teachers Jennifer Mann and Heidi Weiss. An ensemble of musicians supports this interactive space with live improvised acoustic and electronic music.
