Ultima Vez Vocabulary

This workshop will approach the basis of the work of Ultima Vez from Laura’s personal experience with the Company. We will study body mechanisms that allow us to reach physical extremes protecting the body at the same time. We will work with a mix of ideas and material without focusing on any performance in particular.



Partnering

Technical exercises and games will be the starting point for group and partner work.
A fluid physical communication depends on the awareness of the shared balance. We will work with set up situations where you get to fully trust the other, to act under risk, speed, power, etc. We will use recognisable human relationships that will help us to create images, to define energies and invent stories. Participants will explore some given elements and steps but will be invited to play with their own material within a 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