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Date: 5th 6th 7th July 2024Time: 6 hours per day
10:00-13:00 and 15:00-18:00 (hours might differ depending on the summer heat condition)
Timetable ;
morning session with Eva Azevedo Western Coast African Dance through Farisogo Sira Method
afternoon session 14;30-17:30 with Jennifer Muteteli Create Your Own Movement through Ritual
Place: A sala de espera- dance research studio in Tavira, Portugal
Price: 150 euro (early bird inscription by 31st May 2024: 120 euro)
Registration and information : [email protected]
Also if you need help in finding accommodation, please mention it.
"Western Coast African Dance through Farisogo Sira Method" Eva Azevedo
The creation of Farisogo Sira method and its pedagogy comes from the path of its creator Eva azevedo, as a dancer, choreographer, trainer and researcher in the Dances of the West Coast of Africa, namely Burkina Faso, Guinea Conakry, Benin and Senegal, as well as in Specialization in Pilates Method.
Its main objective is to teach the specific technique that characterizes the movements of those dances, adapting it to bodies with different postural, social and cultural experiences, leading them to an individual discovery, having as references the 5 natural elements (earth, water, fire, air and space) and the 5 expressive and creative rhythms (Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness) translated by the dancer and writer Gabrielle Roth.
This work represents the realization of a vision and translation of the emerging qualities of dance, resulting from the coexistence between tradition and contemporaneity, establishing other movements in creative processes, through the approach of new connections between being and the world, art and culture.
“Farisogo Sira” received support from the GDA, Artists' Rights Management and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation during its research/creation and its touring in Burkina Faso, Benin and Brazil.
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"Create Your Own Movement through Ritual" Jennifer Muteteli
For this workshop Jennifer invites participants to explore their lives through the lens of ritual.
What are the boundaries between the actions of your daily life, a shared ritual and performance?
Through movement, choreography and direction she will guide us towards creating sequences, symbolic actions and personas that draw out your essence and point of view.
Sharing her research as we explore which ‘state of mind’ we enter to begin the creative act, accessing imagination through relaxation practices.
What is the impact that the altered state of a performer has on their audience?
Looking at an individuals small step turning into a collective quantum leap…
This workshop will be a journey through deep physical and mental training, drawing on her 20 years of professional training in contemporary dance, physical theatre, mime, clown training, street theatre, Haitian vodou dance, DIY, hypnotherapy and social work.
We can often create rituals unconsciously, that can end up having positive or negative impacts on our lives. This workshop aims to bring extra awareness to the art we are making and the lives we are living.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Eva Azevedo
Dancer, Choreographer, Researcher and teacher of Dance and Pilates
Degree in Environmental Engineering by the ESB of the UCP and PhD Student in Dance at the FMH of the UL, scholarship holder of the FCT.
She began her dance path in Classical Ballet, feeling more identified with Contemporary Dance, Somatic Movement and, specializing in “traditional” dances from the west coast of Africa and “Afro-Contemporary”, having created her own method “Farisogo Sira - The Path of the Body in African Dance”.
Supported by the GDA, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Dgartes and Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva, her career includes research, training and artistic works, as a dancer and choreographer since 2005, carried out in Burkina Faso, Benin, Brazil and Europe.
She has a Pilates professional degree at ALM Pilates Institute and she is a teacher in the Interpretation Degree at ESMAE and at several other dance schools.
She has been working since 2002, as a dance teacher, in various educational, artistic and social projects for children, highlighting the Mus-e Project, supported by the Ministry of Education and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
www.evazevedo.com
Jennifer Muteteli.1983
Director/Deviser/Performer, specialising in movement centred performance and live art.
During her BA in Dance Studies at Roehampton University she took a sabbatical to Finland training at the Mime Centre 2004 and has continued making experimental physical theatre ever since.
Multidisciplinary collaboration is key to her practice, after extended training, including Ecole Philippe Gaulier and Dance Movement Therapy she became a core member of radical theatre company MAS productions, mounting stage shows that crossed the boundaries of secular ecstatic art practices, ritual music gigs and performance art, with critical acclaim.
Applied Theatre and public performance were integral to moving her research forward, as an associate of Community Interest Company BeautifulMess, they created large scale playful public performances celebrating disability and diversity.
Long term studio space was achieved in 2011 when she co created Studio 180, London, honing her ability to host and curate; expanding her focus into visual arts triggered a hunger for nature and a relocation to Southern Portugal to establish the Beekeepers cultural association. Together they built a multipurpose art environment using natural building methods and materials, namely the iconic red clay of the region.
Jennifer is lead collaborator with multi award winning artist and composer Nwando Ebizie since 2015, currently working on an immersive Opera inspired by the life and spirit of 12th visionary nun Hildegard von Bingen, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2025
Certified FreeMind Hypnotherapist and counsellor, 2017.
Since 2009 her work has been supported by institutions such as
Tate Modern, Area 10, LADA, The Roundhouse, Southwark Cathedral, Amnesty international, Camden Peoples Theatre, Guest Projects, Welcome Collection, Soho Theatre, Opera North, ArtsAdmin, ACE, Calouste Gulbenkian, DGartes
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rua Maria do Rosario 12, 8800-228 Tavira, Portugal, Rua Maria do Rosário 12, 8800-601 Tavira, Portugal,Tavira
