A travelling workshop in movement and dance techniques led byAmina Amici

I move, I move something, I am moved. Where does movement begin, and where does it go? An exploration of movement awareness and its different qualities; of managing and shaping weight and direction in space, and of the relationships that arise from them.

The workshop includes a section devoted to different warm-up techniques and to the “apperception” of one’s own body, training it and refining its expressive capacities and potential. It develops a dynamic, powerful and at the same time reflective physicality, through the principles of organic movement, drawing on deep musculature and joint mobility. Work on vertical posture will be an essential step and a key through which to approach choreography.

Flexibility, breath, release/resistance, listening. Where movement originates and finds support, and then how it projects into space, in an uninterrupted relationship between inner and outer worlds—and vice versa—between oneself and what lies beyond oneself. The gaze: what do I look at when I dance, where do I look, and towards whom or what?

These intermediate-to-advanced study sessions are intended for professional dancers, actors and performers aged 16 and over, who have already undertaken a course of training and wish to explore, practise and refine further aspects of physical theatre and dance techniques.