Advanced Floor Skills – Citizens of Stage Co Lab Invitational Series

Advanced Floor Skills with Bruno Catalano – Citizens of Stage Co Lab Invitational Series
What: Advanced Floor Skills with Bruno Catalano
When: 9 July – 13 July 2019 | Tues – Sat
Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Fee: Drop in: Rs 600 / Full Workshop: Rs. 2400

Switzerland based contemporary dancer and choreographer Bruno Catalano has been invited to Bangalore to conduct advanced classes for dancers by Citizens of Stage Co Lab. The class will focus on dynamic floor work. Participants get an in-depth knowledge of the body’s relationship with gravity and ways to navigate between higher and lower levels (“going in and out of the floor”). The class is very strongly based on the release technique and relevant attention will be given to floor work.

Aims of the class:
-to make movements strongly based on the relation between weight and the force of gravity
-to absorb the weight of the body, dancing sequences going up and down from the floor
-to strengthen the body, to be able to dance very dynamic sequences powerfully through space
-to learn extended and complex phrases dealing with speed and compactness
-to assume a technical vocabulary to make impressive and athletic movement without danger to personal safety

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR
Bruno Catalano is a graduate from the dance academy – European Dance Development Centre (EDDC) in Arnhem, Netherlands in 2003.

He danced amongst others for Marcus Grolle, Katja Wolf, Morgan Nardi, Ornella D`Agostino, Tino Sehgal and Tiziana Arnaboldi. Since 2007 he has been the co-director of the company Piccoli Production with Simone Blaser. They made several pieces in co-production with Tanzhaus Zürich, Rote Fabrik and Gessnerallee (www.piccoliproduction.com). Over the past many years he has been teaching in several academies and dance institutions in Switzerland and abroad.

ABOUT CITIZENS OF STAGE CO LAB
Citizens of Stage Co Lab is a collective of versatile, independent dancers who strive to share movement and dance with working professionals, students, artists, sportspeople, home makers, and the community at large. Based out of the state-of-the-art studios at Shoonya, it offers classes, workshops, and performances that combine technical skill, somatic awareness and creativity. It is bound by the belief – Minds evolve when bodies dance.