PESO E CONTRAPPESO

An itinerant workshop on movement and dance techniques curated by Amina Amici

I move, I am moving, I am moved. Where does movement begin, and where does it go?
A journey into the awareness of movement and its different qualities, exploring the management and construction of weight, direction in space, and the relationships that emerge from them.

The workshop includes a section dedicated to various techniques of warm-up and bodily “apperception,” aimed at training the body while refining its expressive capacities and potential. The work focuses on strengthening a physicality that is dynamic, powerful and at the same time reflective, through the principles of organic movement, drawing upon deep muscular activation and joint mobility.

Particular attention is devoted to vertical posture, considered both an essential passage and a key interpretative approach to choreography itself. Flexibility, breath, loss/resistance, listening. Where movement originates and where it finds support, and subsequently how it projects itself into space through a continuous relationship between interior and exterior, between self and what exists beyond the self.

The gaze: what do I look at when I dance, and where? Toward whom, toward what?

The workshop proposals, designed for intermediate to advanced levels, are addressed to dancers, actors and professional performers aged 16 and above who have already undertaken a training path and wish to deepen, train and refine new aspects connected to the techniques of physical theatre and dance.