DANZAHRA FESTIVAL

Sadé Alleyne

Alleyne Dance UK / April 30, May 1 & 2

Language: English

Alleyne Dance, an award-winning company, is unique and powerful, combining Caribbean, hip hop and kathak in a contemporary dance context. The choreographic language focuses on rhythms and textures with athletic, fast and dynamic movement, infused with lyrical and fluid movement.

This is a contemporary physical workshop involving solid, complex and technical sequences on and off the floor, focusing on quality, initiation, performance and endurance. Each session will begin with a different aspect of movement study, focusing on hand articulation, isolations, spirals, breathing and flight. Improvisation will also be explored as part of personal development, starting from a physical intention.
The desired outcomes for the workshop are to develop the creative mind of the dancers, driven by passion, determination, strength, musicality and, most importantly, intention and honesty in whatever choices they make during the session.

Tarek Rammo

Panama Pictures NL / May 2 and 3

Language: English

Tarek Rammo’s workshop combines dance, floor acrobatics and partner work with compositional tools. It shows how to integrate acrobatic movements into the flow of dance using an improvisational approach. Participants experience how to play with direction, weight, tension and articulation while performing acrobatic movements to feel a sense of freedom and give intention and meaning to the movements. Tarek guides the dancers and acrobats to fully engage in their own exploration of movement while actively participating in the context of an overall composition.
The workshop provides insight into the working method of the Dutch company Panama Pictures, known for its performances at the crossroads of dance and circus. www.panamapictures.nl Tarek Rammo joined Panama Pictures in 2017 and has played an important role in the work ever since. He is a former gymnast and a graduate of Codarts Circus Arts in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Tarek is a multidisciplinary circus artist specializing in aerial belts and acrobatic moves who has previously worked for companies such as Cirque du Soleil, 7 Fingers, André Gingras / DanceWorks Rotterdam and Ulrike Quade. In addition to his work as a performer, Tarek teaches at Codarts Circus Arts and gives masterclasses and lectures in the Netherlands and abroad.

Guillermo Weicker

SP May 2, 3 and 4

WWWITH: Touching the monkey

Language: Spanish (English adaptation)

A training proposal taught by Guillermo Weickert (choreographer, stage director, performer and teacher of contemporary dance) aimed primarily at professionals in the field of performing arts. Open to any profile interested in approaching creation and creativity from human movement.

In this class format, where time is limited, I propose a look at the fundamentals of my movement practice for scenic creation through clear guidelines and rules, with the intention of discovering, reflecting and integrating from action: a thinking about movement from within movement itself.
From a review of the basic concepts that support all my language (spinal mobility, search for a healthy and personal movement, off-axis, activation and projection of the energy center, directional work, development of individual imagery and movement motors, floor and spatial work …) we will deploy an approach that crosses and connects from the simplest and most basic exercises of physical conditioning to the most sophisticated compositional strategies that allow us to generate materials for the scenic creation in movement.
The proposal proposes to throw ourselves into play and improvisation without stopping to question our previous ideas about our limits and our own capabilities: a voyage of discovery, therefore, on apparently known and explored territories such as our physicality and movement.
A way to go out to meet our own mind, to touch, even for a fleeting moment, the head of the crazy monkey of our most innate and intuitive imaginary movement.
Open to stage performers of any background and training, the proposal does require a determination for physical intensity, a desire to rediscover and expand our belief system about “what a body can do” and about the expressive and communicative possibilities of physical work on stage.

Clémentine
Télesfort

FR April 30 and May 1

Language: Spanish (English adaptation)

She is a French artist dancer who has been performing and teaching in Europe internationally since 2012. She trained at TrinityLaban in London and then at the Verve Company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, where she received the Outstanding Achievement Award. She worked as a performer with choreographers such as Guy Nader and Maria Campos Company, Lali Ayguadé Company, Anton Lachky, Jamaal Burkmar and Gecko in England. In addition to being a performer, Clémentine has been developing her own choreographic language over the years and her works have been performed in several international festivals. She also continues to research different disciplines such as physical theater and clown, contact, or the study of somatic practices and martial arts such as Systema (Russian Martial Art) with Rob Poyton and Alexander Solovyev and Play-fight with Bruno Caverna. In 2019 he curated and directed the first edition of an International Rural Cultural Festival, the “PinkHouse Festival” in Northern France.

Candela
Murillo

SP April 30 and May 1

Language: Spanish (English adaptation)

Candela Murillo, director of DANZAHRA, is a performer and visual artist. She is currently working with Panama Pictures and Dadodans in the Netherlands.

She also works as artistic director of Plant Human Quarterly, a botanical poetry magazine. Candela is part of Nieuwe Vide, a collective art center with a gallery space in Haarlem.

She trained at the Conservatorio de Danza de Sevilla, followed by the Centro Andaluz de Danza. She later completed a Master in Contemporary Dance at NSCD, and worked as an apprentice at Phoenix Dance Theater. In her professional career she has worked in different projects and companies. A couple of years ago she started to develop her interest in creation, and usually investigates the ephemeral action of movement with the permanence of painting. Her recent work includes live installations where the environment affects the movement and therefore affects what is portrayed in the artwork.

Candela Murillo was awarded the Zelveren Krekel in 2021 and 2022 by the VSCD.

HEN’S FEET CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP

Adults

Thursday, May 1st 16:00-19:00

30€

The pedagogical proposal of the project PIES DE GALLINA is entitled “PIEL DE PLOMO”. The workshop consists of sharing the content and creation process of the work with new dancing bodies. We will have as an objective to touch the bases of creation and investigation of the movement of PIES DE GALLINA and to conform a collective and itinerant choreographic composition. Taking as a starting point some of the anchors of the work, we will design different choreographic phrases that will move through the streets of Zahara de los Atunes that same afternoon, as part of the festival program. Bodies that have any relation with the danced movement are welcome, with interest in the choreographic composition and in the exhibition of the workshop with the public.

Duration: 3h + Public exhibition

PAINTING AND MOVEMENT WORKSHOP

Children

Wednesday, April 30 17:30-19:00

15€

Adults

Friday, May 2nd 17:30-19:00

15€

This workshop will be an exploration between ephemeral movement and permanent traces. Between the body and the material. For this, Candela uses improvisation guidelines and guides the session to explore inhibiting the sense of sight.
What if not only your hand was responsible for creating an image, but a foot or a whole body? Participants with all types of bodies will experience how the body can be used in different ways to leave behind images and creations.
The result will be exhibited during the rest of the festival as a community creation.

Bring old clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty and lots of willingness to explore your body!