Contemporary dance workshop | Giorgia & Vitus
Activity: contemporary dance workshop.
Public: all audiences.
Free activity without the need for advance reservation.
More information: [email protected]
Synopsis
This contemporary dance workshop is an opportunity to deepen the integration of movement, the relationship between bodies and between body and space/environment, as well as gestures and sounds. Together we will explore the worlds of dance, movement and live music, investigating their links through different games.
The workshop will consist of a series of warm-up, rhythmic, physical and dynamic exercises and improvisations with the aim of reconnecting with archaic movements and our body’s ability to change shape. A metamorphosis between fire and water, earth and air, strength and delicacy… that will meet music and live sound.
Biography
Giorgia Gasparetto graduated as a contemporary dancer from the SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and completed an exchange program at NYU in New York. She has worked with numerous directors and choreographers, including Heike Hennig, Jan Lauwers, Pietro Marullo, Dejà Donné Company, Paul Blackman, Jacopo Spirei and Barnaby Booth. In 2021 she joins the Alleyne Dance Company (UK). In 2018, she creates the solo “The Home of Camila”, which won the Masdanza Festival and the Loops Circuit (Spain). In addition, she has been invited to numerous festivals.
Giorgia herself offers workshops and seminars around Europe, teaching and assisting choreographers at places like Impulstanz and the Festival Deltebre Dansa, among others. In the summer of 2022 she has the pleasure of assisting Kristina Alleyne in “Singled Out”, a performance produced by Passerelle vzw in collaboration with C-mine (Belgium).
At the same time, she has delved into theater and voice work, participating in the SOLUNA tour, with more than 100 performances, and has continued her studies in somatic education, becoming a Pilates and Mindfulness teacher. In addition, she has obtained a degree in Anatomy and Physiology (School of Natural Health Sciences) and regularly attends courses on ‘Fascia’ studies and PNEI (psychouroendoimmunology).
Vitus Denifl expresses himself with saxophones, percussion instruments, everyday objects, puppets and his own body. In addition to various musical projects, he is active in the fields of dance, contemporary circus and works as a clowndoctor in hospitals.
Since 2020 he has been working with the dancer Giorgia Gasparetto: in 2022 they investigate and perform in Sicily and give workshops in Rome, as well as at the House Dance Festival Flavourama and collaborate in Senegal with Matar Ngom and members of the music and dance company AFRICAN NDIGEUL GROUP. In parallel, Vitus has worked with the dance and music collective LiSi*A (Liberating Structures for Improvisation Arts).
In 2021 he also recorded and performed at SPIME #7 Festival with the collective Le Fondeur de Son. In addition, he regularly performs concerts and records with Bands Moby Stick and JAVENTU, and is a guest artist for Wicked Dub Divisio, Pilmaiquen, Aramboa, and other musical projects. He has also performed at festivals in Austria, Singapore, Poland, Croatia, Italy, Germany, France, and Portugal.
Regarding his training, in 2016 he graduated in jazz saxophone from the VMI Vienna Music Institute; 2020 in New Contemporary Dance Education (Härnösand, SWE); and in 2021 he also graduated with a BA in Arts in Rhythmic / Music and Movement from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In addition, since 2021 he has been training in health clown in Red Noses International Curriculum.
Organized by: ROPA / Roberto Olivan Performing Arts and L’OBRADOR Espai de Creació.
With the support of: Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya and Diputació de Tarragona.
