Intensive with Patrícia Hastewell and Noé Ferey, Passeggiata danzata - Partnering

January 4th and 5th, Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

advanced / professional

This is a workshop of improvisation, partnering, and contact. We propose tools to expand our dance with a partner. We will share a physical vocabulary of weight, explore contact points, and improvisation guidelines, both in pairs and individually. Passeggiata danzata is a physical dialogue where the encounter with another body generates movement. We will work on listening to understand and adapt to the rhythm, speed, direction, quality, and texture of the other body.

The workshop will be divided into a more technical part, where we will work on partnering and contact exercises to familiarize ourselves with weight and the idea of expanding the floor into the other person's body. And an improvisation part, where we will combine our individual dance with another person’s and see how it gets affected. We will explore different ranges of connection and contact.

At the end of the workshop, we will have a free space to put the tools into practice and engage in a dancing dialogue with other bodies.

Patricia Hastewell Puig

Dancer and choreographer, born in Barcelona in 1991. Graduated in Law from the University of Barcelona, trained as a dancer at Area Espai de Dansa i Creació, and holds a degree in Dance from the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, SEAD.

From 2017 to 2020, she lived between London, Brussels, and Barcelona, working for international companies such as the physical theatre company Jasmin Vardimon in London with the production Medusa, the Barcelona-based company Guy Nader/Maria Campos with the piece Set of Sets, the French company Kubilai Khan in Something is Wrong, and she was part of the production The Only Tune by Sadler's Wells London 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 across Europe, with the latter winning the Audience Award at the Madrid Choreographic Competition in 2016. In 2020, she premiered Deriva by La Otra Familia, and returned to her hometown, Barcelona. In 2021, she premiered Made of Space, the new creation by Guy Nader/Maria Campos at the Grec Festival, and was selected for the "Balla'm un llibre 2021" project by APdC with her piece El ball de les cireres.

From 2023 to 2024, Patricia is an artist-in-residence at SAT Theater in Barcelona, where she will present V de L’ÉMERVEILLÉE. In addition, Patricia has been teaching contemporary dance workshops in various European festivals since 2016 and has directed creations for students of Area Espai de Dansa i Creació and the Institute of the Arts Barcelona.

Noé Ferey

Dancer and choreographer born in Biarritz in 1998. He started dancing at an early age, training at the Professional Conservatory of Dance in Málaga. He continued his studies at the Mariemma Professional Conservatory in Madrid and later moved to Paris, where he graduated in Contemporary Dance from the National Conservatory.

He began working in 2018 with choreographer Roser López Espinosa for her new creation Trama, winner of the Best Choreography award at the Catalan Critics Awards. In 2020, he moved to Barcelona and participated in the latest creation by Guy Nader and Maria Campos, with whom he continues to work on the pieces Time Takes the Time Time Takes, Set of Sets, and Made of Space, the latter also awarded Best Choreography.

In 2022, together with choreographer Patricia Hastewell Puig, he created the show Les Passants, which was included in the A Cielo Abierto network, and they have toured festivals across Spain. He also dances with Catalan choreographer Marc Fernández in his piece IOR and his new project Aleta, works with Antonio Ruz in the production Macbeth at the Liceu in Barcelona, and with the Lamajara collective in the piece Labranza.