Multipartnering Workshop
Livia Balazova MM & Zebastian Mendez Marin
Colectivo Priekopnik Vevericka (SK/CR)
25.07 – 27.07 | 16:00 – 19:00
For information and registrations email to: [email protected]
It is the result of an investigation where we combine concepts from MINDCROSS and THE INTUITIVE BODY, to search for movement possibilities in situations of bodily interaction.
In the workshop we explore elements of association that can be applied in trios, quartets, quintets, groups and masses.
Through practice, the group will find a body state in which the cores of all participants are interconnected, through the relationship with the feet, the ground and control of body weight.
With exercises and games that involve the foundations of our practice, we open the way to study another element that is fundamental during partnering relationships: roles.
These will not be predetermined but will change constantly during the interaction. Understanding what role is being played is essential to boost action.
We will work the roles with games that involve different forces and inertia and concentrate energy at specific points depending on the dynamics. We will know different types of axes (the individual, the common and the referential) and we will study the forces that are contained in them.
OBJECTIVES
– Develop the collective ability to work in diverse teams, in order to improve the physical and creative
capacities of those who participate.
– Stimulate horizontal creation.
– Develop skills for the resolution of difficulties through experimentation with roles and creative risks.
LÍVIA Balážová MM (Želiezovce, Slovakia)
Co-funder Colectivo Priekopník Veverička
She was trained in academies such as Konzervatórium J.L. Bellu Banská Bystrica (Slovakia), SEAD (Austria) and P.A.R.T.S. (Belgium).
She has participated in projects for Kubilai Khan Investigations (France), Rui Horta (Portugal) and Wim Vandekybus (Belgium).
From Colectivo Priekopník Veverička she has developed her own creations such as #whateveristrendingnow, PRACH / POLVO and La Plancha, while she has collaborated with international creations, such as: What the body does not remember and Speak low if you speak love (Ultima Vez), Este Barco (Luis Alfredo Sierra Chacon), DoDna and Millennial Magic Mirror (MimoOs), EU .GENUS (Honey and Dust Company), CRUSH (Marlyn Attie and Fundación Espacio Creativo), Čin and Punk Pajama Party (Divadlo Štúdio Tanca), Islas (R3M), Ženy 2020 (Move-you o.z), Nefotografie and Neistota (Divadlo K), Vnorená (Odivo), Walking songs (Divadlo Aréna).
The performance Čin won the Dosky 2019 award in the category extraordinary performance in dance theater, and the performance Vnorená received 3 nominations for the Dosky 2022.
She has taught workshops in Germany, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Slovakia, Hungary, Mexico, Nicaragua, New York, Panama, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Russia, Austria and Greece.
In the year 2020 co-founded the RED Movement Network online training platform.
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Coming from the country with strong folkloric roots, my formation path was very much influenced by it.
During my studies at conservatory J.L.Bellu, besides classical and folklore dance, I fell in love with contemporary dance style, which brought me to discover my authentic dynamic movement. I was lucky/blessed to explore this deeper at the international schools like SEAD and P.A.R.T.S.
I have always been a very energetic person with endless curiosity to look for different ways of expressing my artistic soul. Over the years performing, collaborating with different artistic companies, traveling and getting to know different cultures, I had the need to create my own playful training practice, to be able to share it with other movers, artists, people and like this keep on getting inspired by them. The adrenalin of the unknown in the new opportunities is what gives me the push to keep exploring my artistic spirit.
ZEBASTIÁN Μéndez Μarín (San José, Costa Rica)
Co-founder Colectivo Priekopník Veverička
He began his career in the theater. Son of the Costa Rican playwright and actor Melvin Méndez Chinchilla, he grew up between rehearsals and scenarios. He formally studied at the El Barco Conservatory, a benchmark space for Central American contemporary dance.
He has created the pieces #whateveristrendingnow, PRACH / POLVO and La Plancha from the Priekopník Veverička Collective.
He has participated in international shows with directors and groups such as Jimmy Ortiz and Las Hijas de Otro (Costa Rica), Center for Research and Dance Creation at the Rafael Landívar University (Guatemala), the Ultima Vez company of Wim Vandekybus (Belgium), Honey and dust (Slovakia), R3M (Costa Rica), MimoOs (Slovakia), Divadlo Štúdio Tanca (Slovakia).
The countries where he has provided training and education processes are
Germany, Costa Rica, Slovakia, Hungary, Spain, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Canada, Portugal, Belgium, Austria and Russia.
He recently co-founded the RED Movement Network online training platform.
Currently he is working in Divadlo Štúdio Tanca (Slovakia) as the artistic director.
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I like to consider myself an artist, despite the fact I do not always succeed in creating it. But inside this elusiveness of art is where I like to play. I enjoy devising strategies to make science out of this alchemic practice.
I have been in the theater universe since birth and can say now that I already carry more than 20 years of professional experience in my back.
My formation includes knowledge acquired “in the field”, a highly experimental academic process at El Barco, and personal empirical research in the field of movement and creative processes.
I love collaborating with artists from all fields (even those in fields not commonly associated with arts), because I can never have enough discovery and feedback.
The challenge of chasing art with someone with a different “creative setting” and learning to communicate and include that setting into mine is what drives me.
For information and registrations email to: [email protected]
25 – 27 July
16:00 – 19:00
Colectivo Priekopnik Vevericka | Multipartnering Workshop
