Movement Research for Advanced/Professional Level
Movement Research is a weekly class for advanced dancers and professionals to dive into deep physical inquiry and embodied research. Each session explores themes of availability, skill, clarity and pleasure. We research physical sensations and textural movements, architectures of form, and the virtuosity in improvisation.
Alvin Collantes (He/They) is a Queer Filipino performance artist based in Berlin, Germany. Combining contemporary dance, decolonial practices, the art of drag, and queer dance floor history, their artistic practice centres around migration, diasporic struggles of loss and belonging and building queer-centred worlds. Their artistic research delves into queerness as an artistic practice of crafting wholeness, interweaving community care work and sustainability. Alvin is a 2024 Soho House Fellowship member through the Creative Futures Collective and a participant of Performance Ecologies Residency hosted by Goethe-Institute Philippines under the curation of Eisa Jocson and Franchesca Casuay. Alvin often works with prominent choreographers and performance artists such as Kiani Del Valle of KDV Perofromance Group, Alvin Tolentino of Company Erasga Vancouver and Ming Poon of Asian Performing Arts Lab Berlin.
Alvin acknowledges that their artistic journey was shaped on the traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Huron-Wendat peoples.