“Trilogía Introductoria” de talleres de yoga e investigación entorno al cuerpo en Santiago.

Arquitectura Corporal hacia una orgánica del movimiento

Este lunes 02 de Marzo inició el Workshop -Arquitectura Corporal hacia una orgánica del movimiento– impartido por Moira Cummins y Jose Vidal en el Espacio Checoslovaquia. El encuentro que se desarrolla todas las mañanas durante cinco días seguidos, busca reconocer la estructura genuina del cuerpo para encontrar así un movimiento individual, auténtico y orgánico.

Para Moira, (-moirayoga- en Facebook) el workshop se desarrolla “desde un trabajo consciente, así buscamos vaciar para sentir, y permitir que algo nuevo surja.  La idea que tengo sobre mi estructura condiciona mi movimiento y por eso buscamos alinear cómo yo creo que soy, con lo que en realidad soy”. Y es ella quien inicia y desarrolla la primera fase de este taller, para posteriormente seguir con Jose, quien afirma “Es Interesante ya que siempre es un experimento y una búsqueda. Es un laboratorio, y es rico tener la posibilidad de que la gente está dispuesta a seguir, porque es la única manera de poder descubrir nuevas formas de trabajar, o maneras que sean más efectivas. Encontrar otras formas de moverse es refrescante y eso lo aporta las personas que vienen y se entregan, se genera un clima ideal para investigar.”

Tras finalizar la jornada, algunos de los integrantes del taller en este primer día de trabajo comentaron: “Un ejercicio placentero, sintiendo el cuerpo, y distinguiendo ciertas tensiones y manías”, “Bello viaje. Dejarse llevar sin dirigir, precioso, exquisito”.

Workshop con Jose Vidal y Moira Cummins

Ballet Dance Magazine / Loop

Loop’
Jose Vidal Company
by David Mead

June 12, 2010 — Robin Howard Dance Theatre, The Place, London

Jose Vidal describes “Loop” as a “live performance and art installation.” The work was inspired by Renaissance paintings and contemporary photography, and while links with visual art are certainly clear, I found more connection with sculpture and classical friezes. Performed in the round as part of The Place’s Square Dances season, the work essentially involves the nine dancers moving from one group pose to another. It was a little like watching a game of Twister played out in three dimensions with the bodies of the participants, who climb on each other and use each other for support, as part of the board. Most frequently the transitions were quite sharp. Considering the complexity of the final positions, most were also remarkably organic and smoothly achieved as each moving mass of bodies morphed into a clear picture.

Ballet Dance 

ON DANCE, ART AND THINGS

LOOP – JOSE VIDAL COMPANY

Loop
Jose Vidal Company
The Place
London
Friday 11 June 2010

The floor is a white square, about 6 x 6 metres, surrounded in black tarket which, in turn, is enclosed by the audience on all four sides (not unlike a boxing ring). This is Chilean born Jose Vidal’s Loop, a work he describes as a “live performance and art installation”, and that is part of The Place’s Square Dances series. There are eight performers????? dressed thickly in winter coats, jackets, scarves and trousers ??? and a small stuffed monkey. Together, the dancers lurch and morph from one loaded stillness to another (passing the monkey). The shifts from kinetic to potential energy (and back again) are exquisitely honed as the dancers brace, turn, duck, and then swarm into what become increasingly known formations ?????’known’ in the sense that the loop in the work’s title is as descriptive a title as one could imagine. We see multiple performances of the same (perhaps 2 minute) set of actions, but with each iteration rotating around the performance square to ensure we are witness to all the edges, curves and angles of the loop. In this sense, “Loop” is frighteningly formal (mirrored by the stark smokey lines of Gareth Green’s lighting design), almost a conceptual game, and just as the repetition starts to tire me, the loop begins to stretch, vibrate, thrust and puncture, all whilst maintaining the structures and rhythms that my experience of the work begin to depend on. The baseline loop becomes my lens, the thing I rely on in order to start to notice the differences. And these differences are in turn spectacular (breath pouring out of the dancers towards the stillnesses), silly (the slightest of pelvic thrusts), and bizarre (matador and bull). In the meantime, the monkey’s trip throughout the work is a delightful divertissement and he (she?) even seems to smile a little when the party version of the loop gets going. The dancers, working hard, but clearly enjoying the ride, are sweating, and becoming increasingly fleshed as they find ways to strip others of clothing, or cajole their own limbs out of their own trousers, skirts, and shirts. I feel filled with a remarkable experience, in which the slightest (for example) tonal change fills the same basic pattern with an enormous alteration in ‘content’. Loop is deftly handled, brilliantly executed, and immensely pleasurable.

Choreography: Jose Vidal & company
Performers: Cristobal Muhr, Giuliana Majo, Kirsty Arnold, Jack Webb, Juan Leiba, Robert Mennear, Lea Tirabasso & Pepa Ubera
Lighting Design and Technical Manager: Gareth Green
Sound Design: Alex Anwandter
Company Manager: Montse Ventura

Fuente: simonkellis