SMASH#7 Morning Training
Awakening the Ninja
Lea Kieffer
Let's play: imagine your inner Ninja waiting to be awakened. The term Ninja refers to a state of mind rather than a form, a way to be and to place your intention. It's the very art every cat masters, that apparent nonchalance hiding the readiness for the sharpest move at any time. Ready? Go! We will use the body as a weapon, a bullet, a material that can shape-shift in an infinite range. In this warm up classes we will navigate through practices and games collected from a wild range of sources including bodywork and partner manipulation, meditation exercises, kundalini breath work, martial arts practices, floor work and contact improvisation as well as self-deviced scores belonging to the “Ninja practice”. We will specifically focus on traveling trough space and all levels from the floor to the sky and back. We will connect to our wildest imagination and let it drive us in some epic dances still keeping the core of the work in the physicality of the dance. Alone and together. Trusting the body intuition, bringing body and mind in the ultimate place of presence. We will find ground and softness to navigate through all kinds of situations.
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Lea Kieffer is a performer and dance/clothes-maker. She's Ninja at heart and a fan of Tarantino movies. As far as she can remember, she always had a taste for risky physicality, and she always felt a ninja. At the age of three y.o. she won a costume contest dressed as a “ninja turtle”. She likes to navigate on the edge of things and to make extremes coexist. She is interested in what's behind the form, in the raw intentions that constitute the architecture of things. She studied sport sciences at the University before studying dance and improvisation at TIP Freiburg, where she deepened a passion for contact improvisation. Together with her partner in crime Rocio Marano, she is developing “the Ninja practice”. She's a nomad artist performing and teaching in Europe and overseas, and has collaborates with different artists among which Michael Shapira, Isabelle Kirouac, Juha Marsalo, Benjamin Pohlig.
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photos:
Tristán Pérez-Martín
Awakening the Ninja
Lea Kieffer
Let's play: imagine your inner Ninja waiting to be awakened. The term Ninja refers to a state of mind rather than a form, a way to be and to place your intention. It's the very art every cat masters, that apparent nonchalance hiding the readiness for the sharpest move at any time. Ready? Go! We will use the body as a weapon, a bullet, a material that can shape-shift in an infinite range. In this warm up classes we will navigate through practices and games collected from a wild range of sources including bodywork and partner manipulation, meditation exercises, kundalini breath work, martial arts practices, floor work and contact improvisation as well as self-deviced scores belonging to the “Ninja practice”. We will specifically focus on traveling trough space and all levels from the floor to the sky and back. We will connect to our wildest imagination and let it drive us in some epic dances still keeping the core of the work in the physicality of the dance. Alone and together. Trusting the body intuition, bringing body and mind in the ultimate place of presence. We will find ground and softness to navigate through all kinds of situations.
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Lea Kieffer is a performer and dance/clothes-maker. She's Ninja at heart and a fan of Tarantino movies. As far as she can remember, she always had a taste for risky physicality, and she always felt a ninja. At the age of three y.o. she won a costume contest dressed as a “ninja turtle”. She likes to navigate on the edge of things and to make extremes coexist. She is interested in what's behind the form, in the raw intentions that constitute the architecture of things. She studied sport sciences at the University before studying dance and improvisation at TIP Freiburg, where she deepened a passion for contact improvisation. Together with her partner in crime Rocio Marano, she is developing “the Ninja practice”. She's a nomad artist performing and teaching in Europe and overseas, and has collaborates with different artists among which Michael Shapira, Isabelle Kirouac, Juha Marsalo, Benjamin Pohlig.
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photos:
Tristán Pérez-Martín