Avatâra Ayuso Dance Company ’s education programme (didΛctance) aims to promote the dance practice, through the understanding and appreciation of different dance techniques and multidisciplinary workshops. Our aim is to create an open dance environment, in which each participant can develop their own skills, discover new abilities and enrich others with a range of tastes and experiences from diverse fields.

Our dance workshops aim to enthuse and motivate participants at any level from a complete beginner to those who are more advanced. "didΛctance" considers dance as an extraordinary way to engage people, with a variety of benefits:


                                  * Physical exercise for participants

                                  * Increased flexibility

                                  * Increased stamina

                                  * Better spatial awareness

                                  * Increased confidence

                                  * Fun

 

didΛctance  Educational Dance Group

                                                                                                                                             DOSSIER DIDΛ CTANCE:   didactance dosier 2006-2009 .pdf

                                                                                                                                                                           

OUR WORKSHOPS


All dance workshops include a warm-up and cool down.

Depending on the age of the participants, we approach these techniques in differing ways. In this way we can engage with different groups to the full potential and make our unique style accessible to everyone.


  1. 1.Dance techniques: Ballet, contemporary dance and tango


  1. 2.Improvisation skills: How to use the space, your body inside that space, your movements according to what is happening at that  moment.


  1. 3.Composition skills: How to develop a basic dance phrase and take it as a beginning for further variations and enrichments: Learning choreographed sections of movement, Engaging in creative tasks to make choreography, Exploring a specific theme, Creating a dance for performance


  1. 4.Dance and Architecture:  To understand public spaces as new environments for dance


  1. 5.Dance and Poetry: Using the words (their meaning, their shape), the rhythm of the poem, the structure of it as an input, the aim is to make evident the hidden elements of the poem and translate them into movement.


  1. 6.Dancing with the camera: Dancers and camera create a whole choreography interacting with each other.


  1. 7.Workshops for children and older people:  Working on coordination, musicality and awareness of their bodies.


  1. 8.Other activities: Public showings, master classes and group choreographies


FEES

Please contact  us for quotes. We offer a variety of rates for workshops, 3-day workshops, residencies and longer-term projects.


LOCATIONS

didΛctance works independently of all dance schools and the location may vary between scheduled classes and workshops in different institutions around Europe:

                        The Place  (London)

                        Palucca Schule Dresden  (Dresden)

                        Carmina Ocaña Escuela de Ballet  (Madrid)
                        Youth Dance England  (London)

                        Escuela de danza María Luisa Horga  (Santander)

                        Conservatori Professional de Dansa de Majorca  (Majorca)

                        Sala Miriñaque  (Santander)


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