SMASH#7 Morning Training
Release dance class
Maya Weinberg
Release does not mean ´to relax´, although in this class we do work on releasing the weight into the floor, emphasizing the reduction (release) of extra muscular tension. During these two weeks we will work with Release Technique more as a letting go of any physical preconception - not planning how one feels and look while moving into space.
The class is structured with three main parts: floor work, standing exercises and an advanced dance phrase. All the exercises are based on elements and principles taken from yoga, Alexander technique, Klein technique, contact improvisation and modern dance. We will experience moving from the skeleton: bones and joints and their connection out to space, when the initiators of the movement are the edges of the body. We will discover the various alignments that exist simultaneously in our body and learn to work with them as a structural information. We will move and dance according to the basic physical forces such as gravity, momentum, centrifuge (off balance, swing ) in order to create a functional movement that reduces muscular effort and maximizes freedom, playfulness and clarity of movement directed by every individual body.
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Maya Weinberg is an Israeli choreographer, dancer and a teacher for release technique and improvisation, based in Berlin since 2013. She worked as a dancer with Yasmeen Godder Company for 8 years and was a teacher at Godder`s school, as well as in other schools and academies such as The School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem and the HZT- Berlin. Since 2008, Maya has created various works by commission from dance and performance-art festivals, often collaborating with dance, video-art and performance artists. Among her pieces 'Trained' (with Keren Ida Nathan), 'Homonimy', 'My True Self' (for Fattoria Vittadini Dance Company), 'Some fish swim up the river to die' (Certain Up 2011), 'if it's fun' (Tanztage Festival Sophiensaele, Berlin) - a work in collaboration with Lee Meir. Her Latest creation, 'While House', a collaboration with 'The Instrument' (Maya M, Carroll and Roy Carroll) premiered at Curtain Up festival 2014 in the Suzanne Dellal Center for dance Tel–Aviv, and in Ausland Berlin. In the last two years she has been collaborating as a performer with the director Sebastian Blasuis in his latest works: 'Erasing Cafe M.' , 'Keep Quiet' and with the choreographer Antje Velsinger in her work 'Haus, kein Haus', a production of the K3, Hamburg 2015. Maya's works raises basic questions about the medium of performance while offering unexpected ways of dealing with the tragic-comic gap that exists between language and unexpressed intentions.
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photos:
andré lewski
Uri Lipsker
Release dance class
Maya Weinberg
Release does not mean ´to relax´, although in this class we do work on releasing the weight into the floor, emphasizing the reduction (release) of extra muscular tension. During these two weeks we will work with Release Technique more as a letting go of any physical preconception - not planning how one feels and look while moving into space.
The class is structured with three main parts: floor work, standing exercises and an advanced dance phrase. All the exercises are based on elements and principles taken from yoga, Alexander technique, Klein technique, contact improvisation and modern dance. We will experience moving from the skeleton: bones and joints and their connection out to space, when the initiators of the movement are the edges of the body. We will discover the various alignments that exist simultaneously in our body and learn to work with them as a structural information. We will move and dance according to the basic physical forces such as gravity, momentum, centrifuge (off balance, swing ) in order to create a functional movement that reduces muscular effort and maximizes freedom, playfulness and clarity of movement directed by every individual body.
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Maya Weinberg is an Israeli choreographer, dancer and a teacher for release technique and improvisation, based in Berlin since 2013. She worked as a dancer with Yasmeen Godder Company for 8 years and was a teacher at Godder`s school, as well as in other schools and academies such as The School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem and the HZT- Berlin. Since 2008, Maya has created various works by commission from dance and performance-art festivals, often collaborating with dance, video-art and performance artists. Among her pieces 'Trained' (with Keren Ida Nathan), 'Homonimy', 'My True Self' (for Fattoria Vittadini Dance Company), 'Some fish swim up the river to die' (Certain Up 2011), 'if it's fun' (Tanztage Festival Sophiensaele, Berlin) - a work in collaboration with Lee Meir. Her Latest creation, 'While House', a collaboration with 'The Instrument' (Maya M, Carroll and Roy Carroll) premiered at Curtain Up festival 2014 in the Suzanne Dellal Center for dance Tel–Aviv, and in Ausland Berlin. In the last two years she has been collaborating as a performer with the director Sebastian Blasuis in his latest works: 'Erasing Cafe M.' , 'Keep Quiet' and with the choreographer Antje Velsinger in her work 'Haus, kein Haus', a production of the K3, Hamburg 2015. Maya's works raises basic questions about the medium of performance while offering unexpected ways of dealing with the tragic-comic gap that exists between language and unexpressed intentions.
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photos:
andré lewski
Uri Lipsker