TRINIDAD GARCIA ESPINOSA
Dance improviser, choreographer and a teacher oriented to contact improvisation and contemporary dance, Performer, activist. After early classical & contemporary dance training she begins her formal education at Institut del Teatre at Barcelona in 1994, as a dance performer student.
Having previously experienced and practiced Contact Improvisation she receives instruction and additional formation from Mary Prestidge, Karen Nelson and Steve Paxton at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts 1997, Later in New York she dances and trains at DanceSpace and Movement Research and she participates in several CI jam sessions.
From 1999 to 2000 she lives in Berlin, working as a performer and developing personal projects around contemporary dance, movement, and video.
She returns to Barcelona in 2001, where she manages a space for jams, dance training, creation, and live music. Teaching and making collaborations with with, la caldera, tragant dansa, area, Enestudio, centre civic guinardo, among others...
Plataforms, and festivals, Centre Civico Barceloneta, La sSmilla, Ibiza Contact Festival, In touch, Cim, Nunoff, Emocie, Contact Festival FreiburG
WORKSHOP
ABSENCE OF ESFFORT
For me the CI would be incorporated as one
discipline
that is defined, a priori, to be: cross-border, that is not occupying a fixed territory but constitutes the same characteristics of globalization, migration and mobility.
What do we refer when we talk about a dynamic foot?
What are your cooperating forces
and mechanics of the continuum?
What is coherence and correlation of the movement?
How we recognize when we are authentic?
Work on ideas such as:
- Do not go to the limit - Balance search balance.
- the spine supports the weight of the head - attention to the focus of your attention. - Change the range of motion. What is efficient? How should the fall be? How should the imbalance be? Changes of weights and levers. - The reversibility of movement. Influences and infections - counterweights.
Absence of effort: the effort can be considered to actions related to the intentional.
The effort can be identified by irregularities barely noticeable in the respiratory rate.
Resistance when resistance is high, be in the most subtle observation to eliminate resistance, awareness to refine ability. The sensation of resistance coincides with the distribution of muscle contraction.
Presence of reversibility: at any moment an act can be stopped, with the possibility of continuing or returning without a preliminary change of attitude or effort.
