Date: May 18th & 19th
Time: Saturday & Sunday, 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
PRICE RANGE: €150 to €200 (In total 14 to 15 hours) Discounted Rate for Students & Artists: €140Alexander is open to offer install payments and support different financial situations. Do not hesitate to contact him.
Registration & questions: lexfre@gmail.com
Location: EDEN Studio 150.1
Breite Strasse 43, 13187 Berlin
Improvisation research Dance & Emotional Mobility
Dance Workshop with Alexander Carrillo.
Shake out some feelings and transform them into a dance, creativity and sharing to heal adn growth from our personal discovering. It is going to be a playground for adults. Dance meets meditation, psychological subjects and improvisation stages for sharing ideas, instant composition, reading, writing, partner work and more. It is a weekend of tools, diving deeper into Alexander Method and Research. We won't have any specific subject, just the body and the pure material to explore.
Under the method "Body Present: The Inner Beast", the participants of this "encounter" commonly called "class, workshops, seminars…" learn to better process their organic and internal sensations, to listen and feel the vital moment, to present it externally in clear forms. In this way through tasks in improvisation and research, focus their attention, authenticity and integrate body, mind in time and space. Focusing on movement, and personal needs. The workshop in May includes a guided warm-up with clear mobility and tasks that consider energy management, and our emotional pathways. It seeks to physically activate, strengthen and become aware of the body in space from our bone structures and joints. Considering basic physical and biomechanical principles. Alexander, the artist and coach leading, draws on his studies in mindfulness, psychology, shamanism, choreography, dance, coaching, and personal accompaniment to guide the participants through the experience. Individually and in groups, follow proposals, based on dialogues and agreements established during the meeting, and connect them to what has been explored to find belonging and support within the community. It is not just a dance workshop, it is an investigation that invites you to embrace any present situation, challenging the participants to confront their own desires and barriers. Creatively it invites one's inner child to reconcile with the adult and gently yet directly confront your reality. It offers personal and spiritual growth, tools for a calmer day-to-day life, increased self-awareness and confidence, and the development of performing skills. Alexander workshops can become a party in itself, a funeral, a catharsis, a wedding, a ritual...
Base in his own research which started in 2006 “CUERPO PRESENTE: The Inner Beast” we will be focusing in four pillars:
- Emotional States, ‘awareness’.
- Physicality skills, ‘research in motion’.
- Spiritual Conscience, ‘Inner connection’
- Mental health, ‘self love’.
Who can take place: Everyone, every age! Forget the notion that dance is only for trained artists—his approach begins with the simple act of dancing in your everyday spaces. Alexander breaks barriers for everyone. No experience is required and professionals in any scenic area are also welcome.
An additional art tool: we will use the tool called NEUROGRAPHIC ART, as a support for our main goal guided in collaboration with Iana Ielysheva. The Science and “Magic” behind it activates expression beyond critical barriers, facilitates neural connections, translating emotional energy into visual form.
What you achieve and what you can expect:
Personal and spiritual growth.
Allowing your "inner beast" to express itself.
Purpose, personal intention
Transformation through experience and energy flow.
Improvisation as a technique.
Attention and decision-making skills.
Alexander will require you to give your best and to value your possibilities.
Laugh and make fun of yourself.
Allow yourself to be strange, quirky and sometimes silly.
To understand that sometimes it is not easy but it is a reflection of life.
Understand that it is still beautiful what happens.
Physical functions or ergonomic concepts: gravity, resistance, vectors of three-dimensional space, etc.
THE METHODOLOGY is developed through concrete patterns of improvisation in altered states with different physical development and/into methods of meditation. Which are then framed in a real social context, or unreal. A conscious laboratory work using improvisation as a technical tool. The session will combine with other movement techniques and challenging tasks. It is a very physical research depending on your own level. EACH ONE, from their own perspective and their experience, will illustrate the audience with their ideas, fears, insecurities, questions and contradictions. Together with the creation process, we will frame it in an actual social context. What reflection do we do? How do we reach a physical or emotional state and transform it without losing our essence, our spirit? What tools do we use? How to recreate a clear space in another symbolically and develop the ability to play with it?
Alexander believes life is a journey. During the journey, it is possible to identify emotions and themes, which are consciously transformed into performative states, physical risk, mental and spiritual practices. Alexander explores the body from different perspectives of contemporary dance techniques and emotional states. As a support, a background in Colombian Folklore and Afro-contemporary. Creative techniques (awareness, improvisation, and composition). Theatre, Qigong and Kung Fu. Alexander has taught ‘CUERPO PRESENTE: The Inner Beast’ since 2009 in Belgium, Spain, Greece, Colombia, Taiwan, Venezuela, Mexico, Albania, France, and Germany.
BIO: Alexander Carrillo is a Colombian based in Berlin, a lover of imaginary worlds & queer artist, who faithfully believes that life is a journey. His work goes into social and educational issues related to gender, identity, culture, and transformation. Since 2006 Alexander has developed his own artistic research, and pedagogical method: CUERPO PRESENTE: The Inner Beast, strategies for body awareness and personal growth. Since 2012 has emerged in the knowledge of ancestral cultures and other methods of communication, social development and listening. He has been certified in MBSR ("Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction") by the Medicine School of Massachusetts and works with the GIZ, The German Society for International peace programs. . Carrillo also develops through meditation specific methods for body development and communication, complemented with his artistic knowledge such as choreographer, dancer and body techniques. Alexander explores the body from different perspectives of contemporary dance techniques and emotional states.
As a support, a background in Colombian Folklore and Afro-contemporary. Creative techniques (awareness, improvisation, and composition). Theatre, Qigong and Kung Fu. Alexander has taught ‘CUERPO PRESENTE: The Inner Beast’ since 2012 in Belgium, Spain, Taiwan, Venezuela, Greece, Albania, Colombia, Mexico, and Germany.
He is also a researcher, teacher, producer and works with healing practices. He studied at the Folkwang University in Germany, an Erasmus at 'ArtEZ', in the Netherlands, and at the ASAB University of Art in Colombia, (MA – emphasis on contemporary dance). As an artist his research focuses on the grotesque and ugly of the human being, seeing it as a mirror of reality. Studying the role of the audience, the influence of indigenous traditions in Western society, and the body as the interface between norms, sexuality, and spirituality. He is inquiring into the personal, and political through an interdisciplinary approach. He has been an artist resident of DOCK11 Berlin since 2015, among many others and has collaborated with artists over the world.