Teaching

The exercises and practices around which my teaching rotates are essentially based in Taiji Qi Gong, contemporary dance and theatre. The result is a technique that facilitates the creation of compositions and performances of improvisation. This work falls within what is called instant composition, a term originated in the world of musical improvisation and later adopted by the world of contemporary performing arts.

Instant Composition

Instant composition is a dance technique that involves creating movements and choreography in real time, without prior planning. This technique encourages dancers to improvise and base their movements on the moment, as well as their interaction with the audience or other dancers. Instant composition is used both as an artistic form in itself, but also as a tool to develop the dancers' creative abilities and personal growth.

My classes aim to introduce instant composition and improvisation as an artistic and performance practice. The material I teach includes an in-depth study of both the physical anatomy and the mind-states that accompany each movement: from the sensation of the body in motion, the use of the weight, to the compositional choices the dancer must make in the immediacy of the present moment. Through an active use of imagination and intuition, the student learn to use the body within different space-time frames to create choreographies and poems of movement.

Voice and Objects

The voice represents a further element of the work. The voice in my work is primarily anchored in the physicality of the body, and then transferred to the world of words and their meaning. Sounds, preverbal texts, grammatical logic, coexistence of movement and speech are some of the areas of study and practice.
The use of the stage object and its theatrical transformation represents a last, but no less important, element of the pedagogical work I propose.