Workshop Sasha Amaya
- The workshop is part of the CONNECT #5 Contemporary Dance Festival
September 7 | 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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How do we listen with our whole bodies? Drawing inspiration from the performance Orfeo, which blends choreography with opera, Sasha Amaya leads a workshop at the intersection of music and movement. Through exercises in listening, closeness, and awareness of the ensemble, participants explore song and gesture as material: how melody shapes movement, how attention choreographs space, and how our oldest stories can be carried by new voices.
The workshop is open to dancers, performers, and musicians. Although vocal exercises will be included, no singing experience is required.
Biography
Sasha Amaya is a Colombian Canadian dancer, choreographer, and installation artist. She studied classical ballet at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, followed by degrees in philosophy, art, and architecture at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Art Stockholm. Amaya is occupied with form, new techniques, othered forms of being and knowing, doubt, friction, magic, music, and girlhood. Her work has shown at Sophiensæle, Radialsystem, fabrik Potsdam, and Somerset House London..
Orfeo is the third part of her trilogy ‘‘On Form and Fiction’’. The trilogy comprises a set of works reimagining dominant narratives in art history. Sarabande (Sophiensaele) questions the linearity of Western dance history through the recreation of four baroque dances, Solo for Boy (DOCK ART, fabrik Potsdam) interrogates white masculinity from a starting point of art history and fashion, and Orfeo (Tanzfabrik, Radialsystem), a choreo-oper, explores music and myth through the lens of Euridice, song, and dance.
Registration
To participate, please fill out the form available HERE.
The workshop led by Sasha Amaya is part of the 5th edition of the CONNECT Contemporary Dance Festival, organized by the Delazero Association with the support of the National Centre for Dance Bucharest and the Goethe-Institut Bucharest. The project is co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund and does not necessarily reflect the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The AFCN is not responsible for the content of the projects or for how the project results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the grant recipient.