Gaining Momentum into Space
Marcela Giesche

The work consists of a combination of dynamic release techniques, energetic qigong, spiral work, and grounded animal-like floor work. Continuous movement flow, partner-work, improvisation, awareness of musicality, and attention to the continual feedback of the senses, are used to bring the dancer into an intuitive state of availability while thoroughly warming up the physical body. Rather than focusing on reproducing specific body forms, Marcela’s techniques work on finding clear spiral patterns running through the body and space, which drive the movement. This requires continuously balancing the body’s natural momentum with an active redirecting of intentions into space.  Through the specific buildup of the class each dancer is able to find their own anatomical alignment, timing, and weight in the material.  A sweeping movement phrase is what finally brings the elements of technique, performance, and improvisation together in a full-embodied personal expression.

By examining the way we use language and metaphors in our training, by cultivating a state of heightened sensory awareness, and by investigating how to use the focus as an extension of our physical body into space, we will try to shift the way we perceive our movement connected to the environment, as well as how our movement affects the environment/others.


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Since 2005 Marcela Giesche has been developing her own integrated movement practice through improvisation, technique, and choreographic practice, which she has been sharing with students and professionals around the world. Besides her long-standing collaboration with Bruno Caverna (BR), she studied extensively with Kathleen Hermsdorf (US), Bebe Miller (US), David Zambrano, Anouk Van Dijk, Frey Faust, and Julyen Hamilton from whom she has drawn inspiration for her work.         
           
Marcela has been invited to teach at Alfred University - New York, Middlebury College – Vermont, Ohio State University, BPS Studios - Los Angeles, Kunst-stoff Arts - San Francisco, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janerio - Brazil, CODARTS - Rotterdam, Marameo, Tanzfabrik, DOCK 11 & Ponderosa Festival - Berlin, mehrTanz! - Leipzig, Tenza - Dresden, Deja Donne Company - IT, De Stilte Company - NL, Love-In Toronto - Canada, and the Impulstanz Festival - Vienna Austria, and atHZT University Berlin BA program amongst others.