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The class focuses on a specific approach to floor work which results from my own research. Making special emphasis on how weight is used, and on how we organize ourselves efficiently to come up and down; participants are provided with different strategies to access the horizontal plane. These tools translate that information congruently into the verticality, and this congruence presents a development throughout the class and throughout the week. Exercises highlight a vocabulary that benefits from using our spiraled anatomy as a tool for working with gravity, helping us find strength and softness simultaneously. From a general perspective, my approach aims to support dancers to create a receptive and somatically available body, capable of moving voluminously and with technical virtuosity.
Format: The class begins with exercises focused on preparing the body and mind for physical work. Warming up consists of diverse tasks to promote blood circulation, global mobilization, and the strengthening of core muscles. Physically engaging somatic practices and conditioning are prioritized in this section. As the class develops, we will dive into more complex floor and standing phrases. Both forms are connected and have a somatic approach to movement production and skill development. Pedagogically, I'm interested in providing participants with a safe environment to find new learning strategies for their own dance practice. Opening up the space for reflection: How can we bring to awareness our learning process? What do we choose to exercise in each exercise?
Alma Edelstein moved from Argentina to Austria at a young age, where she studied at Bruckner University for Dance in Linz (AT). Her career began joining Norrdans as an understudy, and continued with contracts at the Choreographic Centre Linz, Landestheater Linz, Landestheater Coburg Stadttheater Hildesheim, Landestheater Flensburg and Theater Hagen. Among others, she worked with Jeremy Shaw, Carlos Matos, Gerda Köning, Alfonso Palencia, Teresa Ranieri, Milli Bitterly, Rose Breuss and Katja Erdmann-Rajski. Alma also danced with DIN-A13 and TanzSpeicher. She was a resident choreographer at the C.C.Borges (ARG) and a guest speaker at the University of Oslo. Awarded with several grants by the Cultural Affairs Office Of Bs As, Air France, Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation of Switzerland, and the Goethe Institute Germany. She taught workshops in Australia, Peru, the Canary Islands, at the National University of Arts of Bs As (ARG), Porto Dance Conservatory (PT) Leipzig profi training, Cia Veronika Riz, and Hannover profi training. In Berlin, she is a guest teacher for Marameo, Danceworks, Dock 11, and Sunday Jam.
Her newest choreographic work created in the summer of 2020 “Ode to Phanes” was selected by the Int. Choreographic Competition and Festival MASDANZA winning a tour through the Canary Islands. Other selections up to date include Int. Short works competition “Linkage” (BGR) -Winner of the special prize by Stream Dance- Int. Choreographic competition “What we Are” (IT) -Finalist- Int. Dance Festival “Tanzwerkstatt Europa” (DE). Int. Dance Festival “Kulturraum Rosenhof” (DE) “Platform14” Berlin, Uferstudios. SongBum Int. Dance Festival in Korea and Florence dance Festival (IT). Alma recently obtained a MA degree in Dance Pedagogy for Professional dance education from Palucca Hochschule für Tanz, Dresden.