Rock Paper Scissors

Sunday 12:15-14:15 Studio 1

Rock Paper Scissors is a playful juxtaposition of three seasoned ImPulsTanz teachers, pondering some aspects of practice and with ample time for discussing the ideas. Risa, Shelley, and Fabiana will teach short sessions in response to each other, with Eszter Gàl facilitating the journey. As a collaborative semi-improvised event, elements of unpredictability, serendipity and not knowing are part of the deal.

With: Eszter Gál, Fabiana Pastorini, Shelley Senter, Risa Steinberg

Risa Steinberg (US) is on the Faculty at The Juilliard School in New York City. She has been an active member of the dance community for more than 30 years. As a solo artist, teacher, rehearsal coach, and director of the works of José Limón, she has toured the world performing and teaching extensively. She is the former principal dancer with the José Limón Dance Company, Bill Cratty Dance Theater, Annabelle Gamson, Anna Sokolow’s Player’s Project, Colin Connor, American Repertory Dance Company of Los Angeles and worked as a guest artist with choreographers including Wally Cardona, Sean Curran, and Danzahoy of Caracas, Venezuela.

Shelley Senter (US) is an independent performer, choreographer, teacher, whose work has been presented throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, Russia and Australia. She has been critically recognized and awarded for her distinct approach to movement, performance, and pedagogy, collaborating with and influencing distinguished artists from diverse disciplines for nearly thirty years. Her work is informed by her experience as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, member of Lower Left Performance Collective and as a repetiteur and living archive of the seminal post-modern choreography of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer, among others.

Fabiana Pastorini (AR) received first lessons in dance at the age of nine, attended the National Dance School parallel to her high school years and obtained a Bachelor degree in Pedagogy. She specialised on Modern dance, learning the two most important techniques - Graham and Horton - 1988 in New York. In Germany she met Ismael Ivo for the first time in 1991, resulting in a collaboration for a span of several years. Since 1992 Fabiana resides in Vienna. She teaches and choreographs at the Ballet School of the State Opera of Vienna, the Conservatory Private University of Vienna, the Ballettseminar Wolfsegg, Tanz für Europa and in various European cities. Since 2014 she is a regular teacher at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.

Eszter Gál (HU) Project Coordinator - is a dancer and teacher, currently at the University of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest, traveling & teaching (SRT, CI, improvisation, and composition) internationally since 1998. She is one of the co-founders of IDOCDE. She is a certified Skinner Releasing Technique teacher and works with a mixed ability Company, Tánceánia. The core of her interest is somatic-based movement research, improvisation, performance and community work for dance education.