INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP TO SENSITIVE DANCE An original somatic movement practice by Claude Coldy, with Francesca Bertozzi and Claude Coldy
This is a workshop for letting us explore the fundamentals of Sensitive Dance, where the relationship with one’s own body and with another person is the central element to the work we will do.
Sensitive Dance is a practice which, through conscious movement, leads to greater awareness of oneself, one’s own body, and one’s perceptions and emotions. It is a practice that invites you to listen deeply to your body’s messages, and which gives access to unexpected, spontaneous responses, refreshing them with new qualities and possibilities of movement.
This practice proposes to revisit some fundamental stages of evolution through a phylogenetic path, consciously reliving various stages of the process of verticalization of the human being, to rediscover the meaning and potential contained in the form and structure of our bodies. Breathing, seeing, sensitive listening, and touching are some of the practices of Sensitive Dance. They allow us to welcome what is born in the density of our bodies and make its authentic quality tangible.
We will be guided to care for and deepen the discovery of movement, to express the dance of the present moment, creating a new language through a dynamic dialogue between breathing, feeling, internal movement and external movement. Sensitive Dance is a fundamental training for building the presence of the performative body, integrating movement and creation practices. It is an invitation to orient oneself in a changing of one’s internal paradigm, in which the performing artist enters full realization of himself through his art. Inhabited in this way, the artistic creation becomes an intimate and timeless space that the artist shares with the public, and to whom he offers his vision and his emotions within the scenic space.
General Information
People for whom it is intended: The laboratory is aimed at dance and theatre students and professionals, and people with solid experience in researching movement practices.
Maximum number of participants: 20 people.
Schedules
September 20, 21, 22, from 14:00 to 18:00 (Wednesday to Friday – 12 hours);
September 23, 24 from 10 am to 6 pm (Saturday and Sunday – 16 hours)
It is mandatory to be available to attend the laboratory every day it takes place – total duration: 28 hours.
Fee: 75,00 € (seventy five euros).
Venue: Forum Dança / Espaço da Penha | Travessa do Calado, 26B, 1170-070 Lisboa, Portugal.
Applications
The application is made using the form available on our website.
If you are one of the selected people, only after receiving proof of payment, which you must send to our email, will your registration be considered validated.
Application process
Make your application online using the form indicated for this purpose, until the 21st of July;
Do not forget to attach your curriculum vitae in pdf format to the form;
All selected people will be contacted by July 31st;
Wait for our email indicating that you were one of the people selected to attend this lab, along with payment instructions;
Proceed to pay your registration, as indicated in the email sent, by the 7th of August;
Send us the respective proof of payment to our email;
Your participation in the laboratory is only validated after receipt of proof of payment.
Application form: https://rb.gy/l9bro
FRANCESCA BERTOZZI
Dancer, performer and trainer. Graduated from the Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa, in 2004. In 2020, she concluded her training in Sensitive Dance, a method that integrates experiences of conscious movement with elements of osteopathy, in Italy, under the direction of Claude Coldy.
As a dancer and performer, she worked with: Victor Hugo Pontes, Tiago Guedes, Inês Jacques and Mão Morta, Beatriz Cantinho and Ricardo Jacinto, Arte Publica de Beja; Gonçalo Lobato Ferreira; Ana Martins, Dançarte, Maria João Costa Espinho, Linda Valadas.
As an actress and dancer, she performed, in the main role of Inês, the immersive theater show “E Morreram Felizes Para Sempre” (2015) by Nuno Moreira, staged by Ana Padrão and movement direction by Catarina Trota.
In 2021, she directed a group movement that integrates the performance“In Solitaria” by and with Claudio Gasparotto and musician Fabio Mina.
She is the interpreter and choreographer of the solos: “Naufrago” and “Pensando a Ofelia”.
Since 2016 she has been working as a choreographer with the Almada Theater Company in the plays : “O Feio”,“Noite da Liberdade”, “Bonecos de Luz” and “Migrantes”.
She has collaborated as a trainer with: Ar.Co, Festival Materiais Diverse, F.O.R., Teatro Maria Matos, Inimpetus, Quinta Ten-Chi, among others.
In parallel with her artistic projects, she has been developing pedagogical activities as a trainer, teaching classes and laboratories in contemporary dance, creative dance, movement for actors, somatic movement practices in the studio and in nature.
CLAUDE COLDY
Trained from the age of 20 in classical contemporary dance and jazz in Paris, he also trained as an actor and has taken part in various theater, television, and cinematic performances, as well as participating in international dance festivals.
Since 1982, he has concentrated on choreography and teaching, founding the Arbalete company of Genoa, which toured through Europe. In 1990, he created Sensitive Dance® with Jean Louis and Marie Dupuy, French osteopaths.
He has since dedicated himself to teaching and spreading Sensitive Dance® , mainly in Europe, collaborating with such institutions as L’Arboreto-Teatro Dimora Mondaino, Centro Internazionale per la Danza (CID), ICTGDS Bruxelles, and Wolfagang Universität Essen. He also conducts seminars in the studio and in the middle of nature: in the forest, among olive groves, in the desert, and by the sea. Since 2000, he has been teaching new generations of Sensitive Dance instructors.