- FULL NAME Gabriela Zuarez, Dance teacher- choreographer- dramaturge

- PHONE NUMBER ++31(0)207372533 / ++31(0)640238564

- TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY 'Hybridization in contemporary dance training' / lecturer and practice

- DETAILED CONTENT DESCRIPTION (150 words or more):

During my studies as dance scholar and later during my professional career as teacher I had many questions about the difference and versatility of the body. When I write about the body in itself, I am referring to the body as a corporeal subject, a cultural body which is different from what we know as the ‘dancing body’. Although those notions are intrinsically connected in the dance studies field, those have two different meanings. These issues about the subjective body and the dancing body that I have mentioned before have geared me to find and search for technical devices and methods that I as a dance teacher, trainer and dramaturge can apply with my dancers, performers and students in the practice and which may enable not only the dancer training but the creative research for dance performance.

At this moment I am focus on developing a dance class model which involves different technical structures and movement systems, not only those ones coming from the academic dance (namely the ballet of the modern dance) but I am rather interested in other type of movement sources like for example the Tango technique or the Yoga as a holistic discipline or the Theatre technique that may regard more options for training, movement development and dancers creativity.

Through my experience along the years I arrived to a sort of technical synthesis which I find very useful to implement in the regular dance training but as well applicable to other disciplines for example theatre, for example folkloric dances.

Through the build up of this hybrid dance class model, I am seeking that the dance training would be functional -from the point of view of the physical- muscular conditioning-, integrative -relating the breath and the emotional expressive flow-, exploratory -which means not restricted to a structural way of moving- and that it can be applicable to different groups levels professional, non professionals and body types -physicality, age, weight-.

I am thinking about ('contemporary') dance practice nowadays as an unlimited practice that we as movers might approach and develop continuously and endlessly.

In these days, I find the hybridization phenomenon in contemporary dance an important pivot factor of disciplinary update and I find as well necessary to make the responsible reference to those movement sources from where that hybridization is merging and where we teachers research and get inspiration.

-SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Borne in Argentina, I am (BA) dancer-teacher-choreographer trained in the Euro-American tradition, Ballet, Theatre and Argentinian tango. Later I studied Post-modern dance at the former EDDC, HKA Arnhem in The Netherlands where since then I live and work. I became Yoga practitioner (and lately teacher) while in 2012 I got a MA in Theater Studies (Dramaturgy) at University of Utrecht.

- AIMED AT WHO (AND HOW MANY PEOPLE MIN /MAX?)

• Dance scholars, teachers, choreographers, dramaturges, (dance & theatre trainers), dance-performers, movers, eventually actors and musicians.

• Minimum amount of participants: 8

• Maximal amount of participants: 35

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- TIME REQUEST

• 25 minutes for a paper and power-point presentation

• 1:45 minutes for a class demonstration

• 15 minutes for a feed back with colleagues

- TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Lecture-room or studio equipped with (1) beamer and microphone for a power-point presentation and lecture

• Dance studio or theater stage for dance class demonstration.

- SPACE NECESSITY (studio size etc):

Dance studio or stage of 150/ 200 mts2 for lecturer and dance class demonstration

- NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS

• Till 18 participants I will be able to make personal re-marks and corrections.

• Till 35 participants I can teach if the space allows it but my corrections will be of a general character for everyone.

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