Catching limits, with Nadine Gerspacher

March 25 and 26, Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 2 pm

Two days 75 € (purchase through website)

Single day 40 € (purchase through mail [email protected] )

Mig, avançat, professional

Nadine´s work explores contemporary dance, incorporating movement tasks and situations that playfully connect people and focus on the energetics of body language. The class consists of exercises to awaken the body and generate awareness of the entire physical instrument. Attention is given to breath, joint articulation, muscle tone and stability to improve physical strength. 

Nadine invites students to participate in technical exercises, including floor work , games and challenging phrase composition. Students learn to activate and ground their center in a way that allows them to experience optimal freedom in their movement. Guided improvisations a games highlight the class activities to support playfulness and creativity in movement and expression. 

Nadine generates a warm atmosphere and inspires students to work intelligently and push the edges of their limits. Her physicality is defined by a raw, powerful movement balanced with a special attention to detail, particularly in the movement of the hands. Playing with different textures, switching from light to thick, her movement is a consistent search for surprises. 

As a choreographer she conceives and brings to life characters inside imaginative worlds where absurdity, poetry, and unfiltered physicality come together in a narrative way. Grotesque moments filled with humor, vulnerability and transformation are trademarks of her pieces.  

Nadine Gerspacher, born in Freiburg, is a freelance dancer, choreographer, teacher and artistic director of her own company Cia Nadine Gerspacher. She has been working internationally for over 20 years and choreographs worldwide for companies and universities. Among others, she danced for five years with the internationally renowned dance theater company Dave St. Pierre from Montreal, which strongly influenced her own choreographic work. In 2015 she worked as a choreographer for the Cirque du Soleil project "Heart". In 2016, she received the Isadora Prize from the Iwanson-Sixt Foundation in Munich for her exceptional achievements in contemporary dance.  

In her trilogy 2019-2021, which she successfully completed in September 2021, Nadine Gerspacher described and questioned various facets of the pre-Corona era. Furthermore, together with Nicolas Ricchini, she leads the two programs Free bodies and Free roots, which accompany young dancers: in over eight months and prepare them for their professional careers. In October 2022 Nadine Gerspacher and Nicolas Ricchini opened Free Zone, a center for movement, creation and performance in Barcelona. In addition, Nadine Gerspacher is the founder, together with Tina Halford, of the Nexo Festival in Fribourg/ Germany. Cia Nadine Gerspacher receives 2022 guest performance funding from Tanzland and Inthega houses for 2023-2026.

Image by Claude Bally

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