Vanessa Vargas
DANCER | JOURNALIST | DANCE EDUCATOR | RESEARCHER
The class
The contemporary dance technique classes derives from both the Taller de Danza de Caracas, and Mirjam Berns Technique inspired training. The class starts explaining the five elements of improvisation: space, time, silence, rythym, and relation; through exercise and movement research. Students will explore each element separately and then include them in a serie of movements which later will be transformed into a choreography of collective creation. The class begins with slow exercises aimed to engage and strengthen core muscles, as well as to lubricate supporting joints and awaken the senses. Then, we keep on exploring notions of space, energy, rhythm, and silence as proposals of movement through different phrases in the center. Class culminates in phrase work, putting together these elements while embracing the idea of the relation amongst dancers, motivation, commitment and sensitivity in motion, rather than plain technical skills.