Ultima Vez Repertory
risk, instinct, speed, animality

'The eyes close. Blackout. During the time that the body takes 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 protecting the body at the same time. 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.”



!!! Attention: The additional workshop, announced with "ADD" is hold by German Jauregui exclusively!

Partnering

This workshop will focus on partner work by exploring different relationships between couples as power, dependency, indifference, protection,....combining the physicality of dance with the drama and emotional motivation of theater.
Participants will explore some elements of Ultima Vez but will be invited to play with their own material within this defined context.



Laura Arís Alvarez
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

German Jauregui
From 1994 to 1997 German Jauregui Allue followed theatre and dance training in Spain. In 1997 he participated in A menudo en el bosque by Loïc Touze in Bilbao. At the same time he was active for two years with Jóvenes Coreografos Vascos, a grant programme for young Basque choreographers.

Between 1998 and 2008 he worked for Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus in the creations and touring of: In Spite of Wishing and Wanting (1999), Inasmuch as Life is borrowed... (2000), Blush (2002), Sonic Boom (2003), Puur (2005), Spiegel (2006), the short-films The Last Words (1999), Inasmuch... (2000) and the dance films In Spite of Wishing and Wanting (2002), Blush (2005) and Here After (2007). For the creation of Scratching the Inner Fields (2001) he was the movement assistant. German Jauregui also danced in the revival of What the Body Does Not Remember during the Klapstuk Festival 2002.

In 2007 he participated in the international project Sites of Imagination creating the piece and the book 4 itinerarios y otras fotos with Idoia Zabaleta and Itxiar Rozas.
In 2009 he created his first piece “Sunset on Mars”, which premiered at the Julidans Festival in Amsterdam. In 2010 he created the piece "Esbozo" in San Luís the Potosí (Mexico) and "Testamento" for the festival Eince Guadalajara (Mexico).
In 2011 he created "Tres silencios" for the Spanish Dance Company Date Danza in Granada (Spain).

As a dance teacher he regularly leads classes and workshops worldwide.