Training with Patricia Hastewell Puig

November 28 to December 1, Monday to Thursday, 9.30 to 10.45

Professional/advanced

With ticket or single class:

Single class: € 8

Ticket for 10 classes: € 70

In this workshop I propose to articulate our “danced speech”. We will explore the expressive power of dance in the abstract. Through improvisation and guided exercises we will establish a common vocabulary with which to communicate. In a very dynamic way we will experience the body as a mobile architecture that transforms, we will investigate some of its infinite possibilities by working on dynamics, textures and qualities of movement.

We will work on the musicality of our movement, what it is like to speak or sing with the body, and our relationship with space, our line, drawing and its duration. The goal is to challenge the ephemeral and thus transform our perception of time and space. We will start from physical principles, to later reach the emotion of the performer and the receiver.

Patricia Hastewell Puig

Patricia Hastewell Puig, dancer and choreographer, born in Barcelona on September 24, 1991. Graduated in Law from the University of Barcelona, trained as a dancer in Area espai de Dansa y creación and graduated in Dance from the Experimental Dance Academy of Salzburg SEAD. From 2017 to 2020 she has been living between London, Brussels and Barcelona working for different international companies such as the physical theater company Jasmin Vardimon from London in the production "Medusa", the Barcelona company Guy Nader/Maria Campos in the piece "Set of Sets", the French company Kubilai Khan in "Something is Wrong" and was part of SaddlersWell's London production "TheOnlyTune" with Irish choreographer Michael Keegan Dolan. Founder of the collective La Otra Familia, her pieces, "Bardo Vals" and "All these places have their moments" have been performed all over Europe and the latter won the audience prize at the 2016 Madrid Choreographic Competition. In 2020 she premieres "Deriva" by La Otra Familia, and settles in his hometown, Barcelona. In 2021, Guy Nader/Maria Campos' new creation "Made of space" premiered at the Grec festival and was selected for the Apdc's "Balla'm un libre 2021" project with their piece "The dance of the cherries". In addition, Patrícia has been developing teaching activities since 2016, teaching contemporary dance workshops at multiple European festivals and has directed two creations for the students of the Barcelona Institute of the Arts.

Picture by Junior Yusuf