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THE RESONANT BODY for professionals
This training is based on improvisation work, Body Weather methodology and somatic body practices.
The class begins with a guided group warm up, the Djalma Warm Up, focused on the relationship between breath, movement, and energy, both individual and in the group. The idea is to free the body-mind of tensions, habits, and common places, to access our creativity from a more genuine and sensitive place. It is a kind of cleansing ritual, between trance and meditation.
In the second part we will focus on the work on the relationship movement-breath-voice-emotion-image. Through individual, couple and/or group improvisation exercises we will physically explore the different aspects of our voice: its sonority, materiality, resonance, energy, to create new forms of connection, less predictable spaces of relationship with ourselves and with others, and finally new states of consciousness and physicality. Inspired by the absurdity and poetry that emerge from this dialogue we will develop our own linguistic-bodily landscapes.
Ana Kavalis is a Cuban-German performance artist, actress and movement researcher and educator based in Berlin since 2004. She studied modern dance with teachers such as Tangin Fong, Manolo Vasquez, and Narciso Medina in Havana. In 1996 she emigrated to Montevideo, Uruguay. There she makes her bachelor studies in Performing Arts at the E.M.A.D. Margarita Xirgú, graduating in 2000. In 2001 she takes part at the CPT (Theater research center) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she studies the actor´s method developed by the director Antunes Filho.
She collaborates with several independent dance and theater groups in Berlin and abroad such as: Ephia and Jeff Gburek (DJALMA PS), Lemi Ponifasio, Bouchra Ouizguen, Ulrike Düregger, Diana Veneziano, Maddi Fuente Ubani, Michael Vorfeld, u.a. In 2021 she was funded by the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland with the DIS-TANZ-SOLO Research stipendium for her project Urbane Hexen: Widerständige Frauen in Berlin. She is interested in feminists and decolonial bodies and thinking practices. Since 2018 she leads The resonant body training in different Studios in Berlin. She is the mother of a 9-year-old girl.