Contemporary Dance | Acrodance – Antoni Androulakis
Fluxness
Contemporary dance – Acrodance Workshop
Ranging from moments of intense physicality to the subtleties of somatic awareness, this practice weaves together the many ways I have constructed and deconstructed both floor work and acrodance through various sensorial layers. Using mainly improvisation, we will explore ways to both define and redefine our relationship with gravity through concepts such as:
- Becoming aware of the many ways we can use the points of contact we create with the floor.
- Harnessing gravity as a movement generator.
- The interplay between effort and ease in order to facilitate movement while releasing unnecessary rigidity.
- Understanding our body as a holistic organism. Seeing it as a whole rather than separated, we will find ways to make our full body contribute to the movement.
Drawing from my background in acrobatics, we will approach inversions as expressions of our dance rather than “tricks” to integrate them in one’s own language. I do not differentiate between the way I deal with movement and how I deal with my daily life. My teaching is therefore a synthesis of things I am actively practicing: awareness, challenge & playfulness.
Ages: 16+
Level: Open to professional and amateur dancers with floorwork experience. No acrobatics experience required.
* The workshop will be held in English
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Antoni Androulakis
Antoni is a performer, teacher & creator currently based in Brussels (BE).
He graduated from the Conservatory of Antwerp (BE) before entering La Manufacture (CH) where he focused on choreographic research as well as developing his own teaching material. Throughout his career, Antoni has collaborated with a wide range of artists and companies across the worlds of dance and circus, leading him to share the stage and creative process with Alexander Vantournhout, Lisbeth Gruwez, Rakesh Sukesh, Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, Adam Benjamin, amongst others. Asides performing, he has been working as a choreographic assistant with Cocoon and Keeping companies and is now creating his last solo – Untethered (working title). Eager to share his own movement method, Fluxness, he has been teaching workshops across different continents in which he aims to investigate the many physical and sensorial layers of movement with an emphasis on both inversions & floorwork.
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