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Gaining momentum into space

The class is a combination of dynamic release techniques, qigong, spirals, and grounded animal-like floor work. The basic physicality of walking and running are studied and used to inform the dancer’s movement quality, efficiency, and use of momentum in all spatial orientations. Continuous movement flow, and improvisational tasks with strong attention to the feedback of the senses, are used to bring the dancer into a instinctive state of availability while thoroughly warming up the physical body. We will give strong attention to the use of the floor as a tool to form and inform the body in movement. This requires a constant negotiation of the body’s present momentum with a clear redirecting of intention into space. We will spend plenty of time each day allowing ourselves to connect inside and increase our sensibility of the architecture of the bones, soft tissues, tendons, and muscle chains of our bodies. We will examine the suspension and support structures as they shift and change during movement, and how to balance continuous grounding with horizontal momentum through space. Through the specific buildup of the training, each dancer is able to find their own anatomical alignment, timing, and weight in the material. At the end of the class, these elements are brought together in a sweeping movement phrase where each dancer is asked to challenge the delicate balance between fall and control.

Om Marcela Giesche

M A R C E L A   G I E S C H E  ( 1983, USA / DE ), is a free-lance choreographer, performer, and teacher currently based in Berlin.  Her choreographic work is physical, sensitive, animalistic, and plays with quickly shifting states and performativity.  When working with dancers she aims to train the moving body as an empty vessel – allowing forces, dynamics, and physical relationships in space to emerge. She is interested in examining the borders and divisions which language produces in the perception of our own bodies and our relationship to the environment. This way of perceiving allows the dancer to playfully change or re-frame their movement context while performing.

​She has presented her choreographic work and taught her movement techniques across Europe and in the USA in schools, festivals, and dance studios to professionals and amateurs alike.

Marcela has a BFA in Dance From Ohio State Univeristy, a Diploma from CODARTS (NL), and has participated in the 2010 danceWEB scholarship program at Impulstanz. She has performed with the dance companies Neuer Tanz (V.A. Wölfl) and Dejá Donne (S. Sandroni, L. Flory) as well as for choreographers and directors Romeo Castellucci, Thomas Ostermeier/Mikel Aristegui (Death in Venice), Bianca Van Dillen (Sacre), and Beppie Blankert (Oak) amongst others.

​She is the artistic director of the dance venue Lake Studios Berlin which she founded in 2012 in collaboration with 7 other international artists.