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NADIA CUSIMANO | THE DANCE OF MAKING CONNECTIONS
(Two Workshops)
The 2 hour classes will begin with a somatic investigation based on the *BMC™ experiential anatomy approach through touch, vocalisation, dance and visualisation. We will explore cellular awareness supporting movement focusing on the embodiment of Skeleton, Organs and Fluids leading us into reconsidering pelvis and spine alignment, perception of space, sense of weight, flow, directionality and intention. Our challenge will be integrating this new understanding within our already structured way of moving as dancers, while at the same time playing with a series of dance score improvisations to develop our compositional and choreographic skills.
*Body-Mind Centering BMC™ is an experiential anatomy study created by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. To know more: www.bodymindcentering.org
Biography:
Nadia Cusimano was born in Milan, lived in Berlin and now lives in Adelaide. She studied dance, accountancy and physical education in Italy and in 1996 received a BA in Performing Arts, EDDC Arnheim. She is a BMC™ Somatic Movement Educator and a certified Peak Pilates Instructor. Versatile performer, theatre maker and dramaturge she has collaborated on projects with Paul Gazzola, Sasha Waltz and Guests, Luc Dunberry, Xavier Le Roy, Eszter Salamon, Constanza Macras, Angelika Oei, Nigel Charnock Lone Twin Theatre and Chiara Guidi/Raffaello Sanzio that has seen her operating at the forefront of international contemporary dance and theatre practices.
WORKSHOPS:
When: 6-8pm Thursday evenings… 8th and 15th March 2012
Cost: $15 (single class) or $30 (both classes).
Bookings: For more information or to request a booking form, please call Restless on (08) 8212 8495
SPACES ARE LIMITED – BOOK YOURS TODAY
For more information email philip@restlessdance.org
P R E V I O U S T E A C H E R S
JO STONE | WHO AREN’T YOU?
When: 6-8pm Thursday evenings…
Jo Stone (Actor) graduated from Flinders Drama Centre in 95 and has since worked as an Actor, Director and Choreographer for companies in Australia and Europe. After graduating she performed in Benedict Andrews’ Information for Foreigners’, Peter Greenaway’s Writing to Vermeer and Red Sun Red Earth Angela Chapman/John Romeril (Australia/ Japan production). She directed film/dance theatre piece Blue Love (Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Odeon, Melbourne’s Malthouse and Brisbane Powerhouse). The film Blue Love was nominated for best short film for the Australian Dance Awards. In Europe Jo toured for 2 years with Company Les Ballet C de la B in productions ‘9×9’ and ‘Foi’, she worked as an actor/dancer with the Schaubuhne-Berlin and danced for Vera Mantero and Guests in Montpellier, Vienna Tanz Quartier, Pompidou Centre Paris and Kai Teater Brussels. Since 2002 Jo collaborated with Director Paulo Castro on Stone/Castro productions, writing, directing and performing their own contemporary works internationally. Since living back in Adelaide (2006) Jo performed Stone/Castro production ‘B-File’ at LaMama Melbourne (which was nominated for 3 Green room awards 07- including Jo Stone as Best Outstanding Performer). In Adelaide Jo has worked with companies Slingsby, LadyKillers and Brink Productions and as a director, has created works for No Strings Attached, Dance North-Townsville, AC Arts, and directed ‘Private Lives’ for the Feast Festival. Jo received a Triennial Project Grant from Arts SA to create ‘Superheroes’ presented in 2010 InSpace and Arts House Melbourne and worked with Geordie Brookman as movement director for the State Theatre Co on their production Metro Street in which she was nominated for a Helpman Award 09. She recently played a role in the film ‘Double Happiness’ with Nicholas Hope due to screen in April 2012, and has recently returned from working in Portugal with Bando/Portuguese National theatre as Choreographer and Assistant director on Death of a Clown for Odesseia International Festival Porto.
Above Image: Jo Stone
GABRIELLE NANKIVELL | EXHIBITIONIST
Gabrielle belongs to a generation of International artists that are creating work across multiple countries. She is an avid maker, performer, teacher and collaborator. Her goal is to ignite the imagination of audiences and create continuing avenues of dialogue on the topic of performance.
Gabrielle has directed and co-directed numerous performances that have been presented in Australia, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, UK, Croatia, Armenia and Portugal. She was also co- founder/director of the project company OX with Jurij Konjar from 2003- 2007.
Gabrielle has been creating and performing worldwide since 2000 with companies and artists including Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus (Belgium), Alexander Baervoets (Belgium), Aaben Dans/Thomas Eisenhardt (Denmark), Australian Dance Theatre/Garry Stewart, Splintergroup, Animal Farm Collective, Luke Smiles, Gavin Webber, Grayson Millwood, Thomas Steyaert (Belgium), Raul Maia (Portugal) and Regurgitator amongst others.
She completed formal training with Jacqueline Tucker in Adelaide, obtained a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts, holds a foundation level teaching certificate in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, is currently undertaking a Master of Arts in Writing and is mentored daily by the world around her.
www.gabriellenankivell.com
Above Image: Gabrielle Nankivell
ROB TANNION – Stan Won’t Dance (UK)
TAKING RISKS – movement, text, context, meaning and the physical body
Rob led a Masterclass looking at the creative and devising process of British company Stan Won’t Dance (Liam Steele and Rob Tannion).
Stan Won’t Dance makes performance work that forces us to ask questions about ourselves and the world in which we live and our workshops would focus on themes and issues that directly affect the lives of its participants in 21st century contemporary society.
The true integration of movement and spoken word is one of the key aims of Stan Won’t Dance. This Masterclass offers an insight into the company’s creative and devising processes, done through a careful layering of physical exploration – discovering and examining different ways to devise specific movement material.
Elements of text are then introduced and looked at in isolation. This would either take the form of starting with text from the company’s shows, and creating work around that, or if applicable, supporting the participants toward writing their own text to use as performance material.
When: 11:00am – 4.00pm Saturday 5th – Sunday 6th March 2011
For who: Participants (dancers, circus artists, physical theatre makers) should have an interest in working both physically and with text. The workshops are highly physical and we employ a mixture of movement and dance styles – from contact partnering and release, to yoga, martial arts and conditioning. (Experience in dance will be an advantage but by no means essential)
DAN DAW – Candoco Dance Company (UK)
Dan led an open level workshop introducing participants to the current repertoire of Candoco Dance Company. This session included a contemporary technique class followed by a phrase development from ideas derived from the work of multi-award winning Israeli choreographer Emanual Gat.
Participants were taken through a class focusing on systematically warming the body through a combination of improvisation and structured exercises. Particular attention was given to adaptation techniques. Using a condensed version of material developed by Gat, dancers learned sections of IN TRANSLATION for the RENDITIONS season currently touring.
When: 6 – 9pm Thursday 3rd February 2011
 Photo: Lauren Smeaton DEAN WALSH | FUTURE NATURE MASTER CLASS
Future Nature is day-long Master class embodying elements of a series of complex choreographic templates that interface human & animal physiology with extreme otherness.
This Master class will focus on the architecture and potential meaning within movement phrases and passages – how and why we move in context to composing content-specific dance.
Established Sydney-based choreographer/director, teacher and performer Dean Walsh, will guide participants through a series of quite complex choreographic scores that are drawn from his newly forming choreographic scoring system called Foreign Language – a system that is becoming very popular with other practitioners in Sydney and Brisbane as a means to diversify their physical knowledge.
Foreign Language is an enormously dense platform of diverse scores and their sub-modulations that are an amalgam of twenty years of practice – more than 30 collaborations, 25 solo works, and more recent experiential research of marine environments.
When: Monday 11.30am – 5.30pm | 13th December 2010
For who: open to experienced dancers, professional emerging and mature-age dance and physical theatre practitioners and actors with movement experience. Acrobats and circus artists are also encouraged to attend and diverse physical disciplines will be accommodated. (Experience in dance will be an advantage but by no means essential).
 Photo: Heidrun Lohr
THOMAS GUNDRY GREENFIELD
Thomas facilitated a workshop which explored new concepts and approaches of movement, with an aim to expand individual movement vocabulary. The workshop was broken into two sections: the first section being a contemporary class and the second a structured improvisation.
This was an open level class.
When: Thursday 6 – 8pm | 25th November & 2nd December 2010
 photo: Bottlebrush Studios KRISTINA CHAN
Kristina devised a series of tasks and exercises that challenged the individual to work from the inside out. She took the dancers through a guided practice of tuning into the senses and the physical space to encourage a physical dialogue between partners. Kristina incorporated tasks that built upon a physical trust in the present moment. Dancers developed an increased sensory awareness of their immediate environment and devised new movement material.
This was an open level class for experienced dancers.
When: Thursday 6 – 8pm | 29th July 2010
 Photo: Timothy Ohl
DANIEL JABER
Daniel worked with the Youth Ensemble and guest dancers to facilitate an exploration of connected bodies moving fluidly in and out of the floor, movement manipulation techniques, vocal work and partnering to guide each dancer to direct their own dance/theatre scene.
A series of tasks and exercises were followed with group discussion and individual reflection.
When: Thursday 6 – 8pm | 22nd July 2010
 Photo: Chris Herzfeld
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