Contemporary dance workshop | Dada Theatre

Activity: contemporary dance workshop.

Public: all audiences.

Free activity without the need for advance reservation.

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Synopsis

‘Mindfulness in motion’ is a contemporary dance workshop with live music by Maria Papadopoulos. This workshop will allow us, through movement, to connect with the present moment. Thus, the workshop will develop from small choreographic and musical exercises and synchronized movement phrases. Through work on the floor, relaxation techniques, individual exercises and in duos, and improvisations, a balance will be created between the body and the mind, and between our natural movement and the one that will be tried to learn.

Biography

Dada Theatre is a contemporary dance group founded in Gdańsk in 1993 by the choreographer and director Leszek Bzdyl and the dancer and choreographer Katarzyna Chmielewska, who is a graduate of the Gdańsk ballet school and the contemporary dance school in Brussels.

The Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre operates within a space where acting and dance expression meet. The theatre contrasts high culture with kitsch and makes use of trivial everyday elements and the poetics of pure nonsense. The dance group uses the plastic qualities of stages to construct the atmospheres of the group’s plays, amongst others. In a single play by the Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre pastiche quotation marks and serious lyrical tones might appear. According to the members of the group the most interesting things in art are created within areas where various forms and styles meet. That is why the theatre’s actors willingly make use of various conventions in their realizations – they refer to circus theatre, fairground theatre and pantomime. Their choreographies are filled with inspirations from literary traditions.

Organized by: ROPA / Roberto Olivan Performing Arts and L’OBRADOR Espai de Creació.
With the support of: Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya and Diputació de Tarragona.