• Language: English or German
• Duration: 2 weeks
• Monday to Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
• Location: Mousonturm Rehearsal Stage 3 (4th floor)
• Rehearsal Stage 3 is open from 9:30 a.m.

Costs

• Single lesson: €6
• 10-lesson card: €35
• Free for MA CoDE, MA CuP and BAdance students 
• Cash payments only

Andrés is a choreographer/visual artist & vocalist based in Berlin. Their work in visual, sonic and performance art incorporates multiple forms of media, such as sculptural headpieces, costumes, and video. Andrés offers their class „Practices of Animation of the Matter“ in Tanzquartier Vienna and was awarded with the Pina Bausch Fellowship 2024. In their choreographic work, they incorporate the use of extreme vocal practices, such as growling, guttural voice, lamentations, screams, and whispers. They create scenes and soundscapes with multiple bodies and voices, inspired by Magic & rituals of Animism. Recently, in 2023, they presented their solo installation BICHO RARO at Sophiensäle Berlin. They create solo works using their multidimensional skills to research the development of the body in a queer context.

1. Is this an improvisation training or a training where we learn set movements and phrases or both?

The training is improvisation based, working with tools that challenges the level of attention, presence and energy of the dancers.

Focus of the training: Contemporary, Movement research, punk-somatics

Adjectives that describe the training:  Dynamic, efficient, energetic listening

2. Can we expect to reach a certain level of physical intensity in this training, and will we be moving all the time?

The training is similar as a long durational and intense movement meditation, the dancers charge the space with energy, and the space charge the body of the dancers with energy back. In the intensity or high vibration of the space, there is no longer a separation between body and environment. A sense of huge endless body takes over.