Teaching
Improvisation. Awareness. Collaboration. Inclusiveness. Disruption.
I believe the disruption of established patterns is a necessity in dance education. I push my students to continuously question, reframe and challenge their preconceived ideas about dance.
What is dance?
Who can dance?
Why do we dance?
Where does dance happen?
On the floor, on a street, in a park, on the wall ---
My focus is on extracting students' internal power using raw mood and emotion for them to come up with natural, unrefined and unpredictable movements while experiencing and playing with gravity and challenging traditional dance aesthetics.
Above all,
as a teacher, I value improvisation and exploration. Improvisation is in principle radical and disruptive and it allows the dancer to begin (and continue) a physical training that is grounded on awareness and self-knowledge and not on imitation and mimicry. It gives students back their ability to play and teaches them how to creatively use the particular conditions and characteristics of their bodies in each moment. Furthermore, by exploring their corporality and making emotional and spiritual connections, students develop holistically, achieving their maximum potential as artists and human beings.
What is dance?
Who can dance?
Why do we dance?
Where does dance happen?
On the floor, on a street, in a park, on the wall ---
My focus is on extracting students' internal power using raw mood and emotion for them to come up with natural, unrefined and unpredictable movements while experiencing and playing with gravity and challenging traditional dance aesthetics.
Above all,
as a teacher, I value improvisation and exploration. Improvisation is in principle radical and disruptive and it allows the dancer to begin (and continue) a physical training that is grounded on awareness and self-knowledge and not on imitation and mimicry. It gives students back their ability to play and teaches them how to creatively use the particular conditions and characteristics of their bodies in each moment. Furthermore, by exploring their corporality and making emotional and spiritual connections, students develop holistically, achieving their maximum potential as artists and human beings.