Workshop with Los little guys: little (loco)motion

November 26, Saturday, 10 am to 2 pm

Attention: 2x1 offer!! Bring someone with you and pay between the two of you!

You can buy it on the website and arrange it between yourselves or pay €20 each directly in cash at nunArt without reservation (yes, you have to be punctual).

Advanced/professional

In this workshop we will focus on elements of physical investigation through the study of movement improvisation in order to discover the range and complexity of our physical potential. Creating as a foundation the connection with the ground through our feet, we will approach improvisation by constantly adding motor impulses, in order to accumulate complexity with the use of different layers of approach towards our body.

As the body becomes more stimulated and even saturated, the focus will be on moving all this energy towards playfulness in order to create new movement patterns, break old habits, and activate specific areas of the body that each person may have individually blocked. Once we start moving in this investigation and we have time for each person to find their own rhythm, we will begin to take these momentum structures by adding more additional levels in order to continue analyzing and coordinating the ways of moving through space.

The objective of this workshop is to offer a different perspective on how we enter improvisational movement practices, challenging the body, the mind and the connection between these two. And how to bring more awareness, clarity, and variation to the way we move and how to use this information to further develop and enjoy our own personal research.

Los little guys: Erik Elizondo and Dimitri Kalaitzidis

Erik Elizondo is originally from Monterrey, Mexico. He is a 2017 graduate of SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Austria with a focus on Contemporary Dance Performance. He began his career as a dancer in the Teoría de Gravidad company directed by Aurora Buensuceso and Ruby Gámez. He later formed part of Inside the Body Performing Arts directed by Aladino R. Blanca. His professional experience includes collaborations with Gavin Webber and Grayson Millwood, Beto Pérez, Cinthya Dueñas, Francisco Córdova, Raúl Martinez, João Cidade, Marion Sparber, Michikazu Matsune, Barnaby Booth, and Milla Koistinen. As part of his performance training, Erik did a residency in 2013 with the physical theater company KiM Kosmos in Movement directed by Elías Cohen in Olmué, Chile, he was also part of the Smash#4 intensive performance program in 2014 in Berlin. , Germany. At the end of 2017, together with Dimitri Kalaitzidis, he founded Los Little Guys; making creations, residences, classes and workshops in Germany, Mexico, United States, Canada, Ecuador, Peru, United Kingdom, Belgium, India, Malaysia, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Iceland, Denmark and Greece.

Dimitri Kalaitzidis is originally from Massachusetts, USA. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus on Contemporary Dance, where he danced pieces by Bill T. Jones, Merce Cunningham, Seán Curran, and Pamela Pietro. Dimitri then joins The Bodhi Project company at SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, working with Emanuel Gat, Sita Ostheimer, Mala Kline, Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, and Rosalba Torres touring around Europe, Israel and South Africa. Since then, Dimitri co-founded Los Little Guys, in collaboration with Erik Elizondo. Creating their own stage work and developing their own movement research, they have performed and given workshops across North America, Europe and Asia at venues such as Dock11, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, b12 Berlin, Gibney Dance, VERVE at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, A Cielo Abierto, Encuentros Mutantes, Lux Boreal, Iceland Dance Company, SUB.LAB WORKSHOPS, Nritya Shakti, Circuit-Est Center Chorégraphique, among others.

www.loslittleguys.com