Workshop is focused on Improvisation working on fundamentals like breath, speed and energy, involving the core structure of the body influenced by different methods of kalari payattu and other martial arts combined, focusing mainly on dancers relationship with the space and the people around.
The practice is about identifying our way of expressing into certain situations like a moment of confrontation, dealing and accepting and mainly reacting. Inventing a score to create an incident and let the body react and mind follows and other way around. Using sense organs as a tool to provoke emotions created through incidents. Identifying the space filled with accumulated information, replaying an incident and to feel the changes and the challenge is to see the possibility of changing the past by playing the present moment.
We experience reaction through various tasks and scores, to disengage mind from body and observing the reaction of body, recollecting or replaying the incident and to identify it with a new perspective, the new is nothing but a combination of various memories played in different time and space which is changing and passing every moment. Bringing feeling and letting the body occupy and transfer, letting it pass in order to give space for the next incident. Running from incident to incident, going through different emotional state, identifying the presence and absence, and identifying the state of mind and body through these different emotional state.
Abhilash Ningappa
Abhilash Ningappa is born in India. He is a Performer, teacher, choreographer and Artistic director of Play Practice artists Residency In India. He post graduated in SEAD (Salzburg) and Post Masters in APASS (Advanced performance and scenography studies) (Belgium). A yoga practitioner and a martial art teacher, trained in kalari payattu and contemporary dance, started his training in India and later travelled around India and Europe working and practicing.
He has taught in Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (ARTESIS, Antwerp), Dock 11 (Berlin), Dansehotel (Malaga), Le chien Perdu (Brussels), Attakalari (Bangalore), Dance Identity (D.ID)(Austria), Danskias (Vienna), and Association of professional dancers (Ireland). Professional training program in India called PROTRAIN and Apprenticeship Program, and also an organizer and teacher of scholarship program for “Improjunction” festival facilitated by Katie duck and Goa contact festival.
He has worked with choreographers such as Constanza macras in "Back to the present" and “The Past”, Michele keleminis "Caroline and Abhilash" and in Ireland, with Rex levitates Dance Company. He performs with Katie duck and also a guest teacher for Magpie Summer Apprenticeship program. "Bodies in urban spaces" by Willie Dorner, and "Icosahedron" by Tania Carvalho.
He started his choreography work in 2003 with "4men 4minutes". He worked in collaboration with individuals and groups from Attakalari to create the group pieces "No way out" and "Solo project" in 2004. He received scholarship in Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) for a choreography exchange program where, with the students, he created " Space Time"." Connecting Landscapes" and " New trash" in 2009. He presented a lecture performance called 'Life Unedited" and performed 15 solos choreographed by all participant choreographers called "15 pieces " concept by Daniel kok, in the frame of an exchange program called "Point to point" by Asia Europe Dance Forum supported by Asian Europe foundation in 2009. He worked "Disposable Heroes" with Bangalore dance collective and "Lets make up India" with Eva Maria kupfer and was in 'Pro Choreo Laboratory', in Zurich.
He is currently working on developing an art practice called "Play Practice". Play practice is a movement research project developed since 2009 in different residencies in different countries, it started in DANSKIAS Vienna residency and later became a research material for a research based program in APASS (Advanced performance and scenography studies) working with various artists in different residencies mainly PARTS summer residency, PAF (performing arts forum) and Lopital (Antwerp).
Timetable
Improvisation and composition Abhilash Ningappa from 12.30pm to 2.30pm
Price
Improvisation and composition Abhilash Ningappa 150€
Discounts
| If you do more than one course you can get discounts | |
| If you pay before 30th July | 10 % discount |
| If you belong one of those collectives you have discount | |
APdC | 20% discount |
| Institut del Teatre pupils | 20% discount |
Aisge | 20% discount |
* Discounts are not cumulative
How to register?
Send an email to aula@lacaldera.info attaching a cv and specifying the courses you want to do.
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Once the course has begun the amount paid will not be returned under any circumstances.
Please note that expenses are to be payed by the remitter.
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