The "Masterclass Ballet" with Alessandra Pasquali will consist of two sessions: At the beginning, Alessandra will offer a 90-minute classical ballet training. The training is based on musicality and coordination and, of course, a good ballet training (medium or high level). For Alessandra, combining maximum concentration with lots of fun is very important. In the second unit, a variation from the classical ballet repertoire will be rehearsed. Please note: the female dancers should bring their pointe shoes.
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.
