Contemporary Dance Nuhacet Guerra

Aiming High

The aim of the class is to explore the strength of the body through circular and semicircular patterns, capitalizing on the dancers instinctive impulses through an exploration of fluidity, dynamics, playfulness, acrobatics and intuitiveness. We will explore the use of six points of support; head, shoulders, forearms, hands, knees and feet, to maximize the function and stability of our bodies. The class will be divided between a mindful and focused warm-up, force/resistance play, balance/imbalance work and a jumping/falling exploration.

The class aims to develop and enrich the physical form of the student, with emphasis on finding a ranged diversity of qualities, while also exploring what it means to relinquish oneself to intuition and instinct.
We will work our strength, resistance, speed, balance through different supports, acrobatics or jumps with reception to the ground. All this through different combinations of material and guided improvisations. A way to approach physicality from the awareness of weight, strength, supports on the ground and the use of it from the awareness of gravity.
How to manage energy without losing dynamics. How to link movements taking into account their difficulty, in search of neutrality and energy saving. Using the precise impulses, the necessary stage presence to be present, the anchoring of each joint and the coordination of the limbs in order to be effective and fast.

We will learn how to use our body, towards impossible limits, reaching as far as everyone can. Seeing the amount of things we are capable of doing and forgetting the negative points. Observing that blank canvas that is our body / mind as an infinite tool.