Ultima Vez Vocabulary
Power Sources

The emphasis of this workshop will be placed on the use of our body centre, our big power source. The class builds progressively from stretching and technical parts to very physical and dynamic phrases.
By using the skeleton structure and muscular chains we will find fluidity and freedom in our own movement, learning to recycle energy. We will explore body mechanisms that allow us to reach physical extremes while protecting the body at the same time.
Slowly some theatrical inputs will give meaning to the movements and will help us to perform more than just learn them, through a specific energy and clear images not just from a merely technical vision of dance.


Partnering
you are invited to play

This workshop will focus on partner work by exploring different relationships such as the relationships between couples as power, dependency, indifference, protection, combining the physicality of dance with the drama and emotional motivation of theatre.

Participants will explore some elements of ULTIMA VEZ but will be invited to play with their own material within this defined context.



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