Contribution to Resonance
What are we talking about when we talk about technique in contemporary dance? Is there a common imaginary in relation to technique? Or is it time, perhaps, to return to the questions, to ask ourselves what a training in dance needs today? What are we preparing for? What are we interested in moving when dancing? Is it really only the body that moves the dance? What do we call being “a good interpreter”?
It may be that so many years of dedication to this profession make more questions arise today... or it may be that in this profession we are interested in not stopping asking ourselves questions.
Faced with so many new pedagogies full of possible paths for learning and personal development, I feel it is essential that we collect, bring, or recover, in our practices, values that I consider intrinsic to our profession: group work, observation, collaboration, possibility of learning from others, of copying, generosity, contact, dialogue, feedback, among others. The classes will start from practices that activate both the body and the thought, and through them we will open more and more questions.
BIO
Cecilia Colacrai is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. She currently and for 10 years has been part of the Big Bouncers collective and the LaBolsa Group, she also works with João Lima on various artistic and educational projects.
She alone has generated various projects, and right now she is in the process of creating the show R.A.V.E. (Revolutionary Agglomeration for Voluntary Extermination) and REVERB (proposal for unconventional spaces).
She has collaborated with: Thomas Hauert, Jorge Albuerne, Alexis Eupierre, Montse Colomé, Joan Català, Emmanuel Grivet, Toni Mira, among others.
She has taught dance workshops since 1997 in Argentina and since 2002 in different cities in Europe and Latin America. She is currently part of the teaching team at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona (CSD) and the Moveo school.
She has been part of the board of directors of the APdC and has been a member of the creation spaces La Visiva and La Caldera.
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