Modern Expressive Dance Intermediate
technique as a pathway for free imagination

Movement is used for the research of the body's anatomical potential to enable a better understanding of its form and thus learn to discover and express its mental and emotional dimensions: dance for a sensitive and intelligent body. This class uses the anatomical basics of the dance technique of Lester Horton, in connection with release and contemporary dance exercises. Respecting the human anatomy, it helps to correct physical weaknesses. It introduces release to the torso and extension to the arms preparing a dancer for any type of dance. In choreographic phrases we will play with time, rhythm and movement quality exercising necessary skills for today's dancers. Special attention will be given to the dancers’ capacity to develop a convincing performing character with emotional skills. Thus technique is understood as a pathway for the creative process and a free imagination.




Ismael Ivo
Ismael Ivo, born 1955 in Sao Paulo/Brazil, was given the Trofeu Pirandello Sao Paulo, the prize for the best solo dancer already in 1983. A scholarship for Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in New York followed in 1983/84 before he moved to Berlin where he has been living since. Ismael created numerous solo pieces including PHOENIX (1985), UNDER THE SKIN (1986), DELIRIUM OF A CHILDHOOD (1989), DIE KREISRUNDEN RUINEN (1991) and APOCALYPSE (1992). He got internationally wellknown through the choreographies FRANCIS BACON (1993) and OTHELLO (1996), both productions directed by the German dance theater choreographer Johann Kresnik. He has cooperated closely with Johann Kresnik and the Japanese choreographer Ushio Amagatsu, who has been the director of the recognised "Sankai Juku"-Ensemble. These different experiences have merged with his Afro-Bazilian roots.


From 1996 to 2000 Ismael Ivo was heading the dance theater company at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar where he choreographed eleven pieces. Particularly in the 90ies he cooperated with theater directors including George Tabori, for several groupworks. 1999 he started his artistic cooperation with Marcia Haydée. The duets TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (1999) and M.- WIE CALLAS (2002) were created as well as choreographies for Ankara, Rio de Janeiro and Vienna. 2006 the production DIE ZOFEN, created with Koffi Kôkô and Yoshi Oida in 2001 and based on the text of Jean Genet received the Time Out Live Award of London. Ismael Ivo has been the artistic director of ImPulsTanz Workshops since the beginning in 1984 until today. Since 2005 he is also the artistic director of the Biennale di Venezia Settore Danza.