Acrodance

Acrodance Workshop

During these 4 days workshop I will share my technical acrodance material, mixing soft acrobatics, contemporary dance and floorwork vocabulary, as also a part of improvisation and movement research. The main goal will be exploring creative and expressive forms with the body that open doors towards a wider freedom of movement.
We will look into tasks based on lightness in motion, flow, body and gaze awareness, sharpness on and off the floor, limitations as potential opportunities.
Are you ready to expand your movement creativity?

Ages: 18–40
Level: No needed a specific level of acrobatics skills but being comfortable with moving on the floor.

* The workshop will be held in English 

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Davide Bonetti

Davide Bonetti is a professional acrodancer and movement teacher. At the age of 18, he entered FLIC contemporary circus school in Turin (Italy) as an acrobat, specializing in handstands. At 22, he continued his training at CNAC (Centre National des Arts du Cirque) in France, focusing on a more fluid and organic approach to acrobatics: acrodance, a discipline that combines soft acrobatics, floorwork, elements from capoeira, breakdance, and contemporary dance. Between 2019 and 2021, he toured in France and Belgium as a performer and since 2019 he has been teaching his own workshops in Italy and Europe. Among the festivals he has taught in there are: B12 research or die (Berlin) for five consecutive years, Henny Juriens Studio (Amsterdam), Frei Art Festival (Freiburg), AreaDansa (Barcelona), and PERA School of Performing Arts (Cyprus).”
https://www.instagram.com/davide_bonez/ 

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.
https://www.instagram.com/antoni.androulakis/