Ultima Vez Repertory
Risk.  Instinct.  Speed.  Animality

'The eyes close.  Blackout. During the time that it takes the body to touch the floor, a series of unique movements occur for the first and last time.
Those are the ones that interest us.'

“In this workshop I will approach the basis of the work of Ultima Vez from my personal experience with the company. It is about body mechanisms that allow you to reach physical extremes, you yourself or you with others, while at the same time protecting the body. This requires to move out of necessity, to give meaning to the movement. We will work with a mix of ideas and material without focusing on one performance in particular.”



Laura Arís
Laura Arís was born in 1977 in Barcelona (Spain). She followed dance and choreography training at the Instituto del Teatre in Barcelona where she was awarded with the Prize for Extraordinary Student in 1996. Between 1996 and 1999 she was part of Lanònima Imperial Dance Company (awarded with the prize Lladró to the Best Performer at Festival de Valencia 1999) and associated with General Electrica collective in Barcelona (Spain).

Since 1999 she lives in Brussels and has been a member of Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus for the creations and touring of: Inasmuch as life is borrowed, Scratching the Inner Fields, Blush, What a body does not remember (reprise 2002), Sonic Boom, Puur, Spiegel, Menske and in the dance films: Blush, Here After and the short film: Inasmuch as Life is Borrowed.

She regularly teaches workshops related to the Ultima Vez dance vocabulary and contemporary technique lessons worldwide.

In 2009 she founded the artistic platform Ember together with Jorge Jáuregui, an artistic platform that holds their works and collaborations.
www.emberprojects.blogspot.com