Research 2006

Research 2006

Iñaki Azpillaga
COACHING PROJECT: Powerful & Fragile

Coaching Project
Week 3, 31.7.–4.8.2006
12:00–18:00
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Powerful & Fragile The game: "It is an action or a free occupation, developed within limits temporarily or spatially determined, according to absolutely obligatory rules although freely accepted, action that has an aim of its own and has enclosed feelings of tension and joy and the conciousness of "being someone else” than in current life.” (Quotes: Johan Huizinga „Homo ludens“) „Moving rather than formal technique will define the atmosphere. We will propose games and feelings as an environment to develop our movements. Floorwork, partnership and group exercises will introduce terms such as intention, projection, change of dynamics, and communication becoming the language of the work. Methods of creation and analysis will show the way towards the techniques supporting the ideas we want to express. The movement vocabulary will confront the energies of fragile states and powerful physical dynamics.“ We dance what we are. Bring sneakers. The Spanish Iñaki Azpillaga danced with the companies Ultima Vez/W. Vandekeybus, Mathilde Monnier, Bocanada Danza ao. His dance studies are based on Basque folk dance, ballet, jazz, modern and contemporary dance. Iñaki Azpillaga Born in Spain, Iñaki Azpillaga is now a dance teacher based in Brussels teaching regular classes to the companies Ultima Vez, Need Co., Charlesroi/Danses a. o. He has been leading workshops all around Europe. His dance studies are based on Basque folk dance, ballet, jazz, modern and contemporary dance. He has danced with Mathilde Monnier, Bocanada Danza, National Ballet Co. of Spain and has been part of many other productions. The last ten years of his life have been in one way or another related to the work of Wim Vandekeybus at the company Ultima Vez. Iñaki Azpillaga danced with Ultima starting 1994, also participating in the creations of the pieces Mountains made of Barking, Alle grossen decken sich zu and Bereft of a Blissful Union. During that same period he has also danced in the pieces What the body does not remember and Her Body doesn’t fit her soul and was a tour repetitor for 7 for a secret never to be told. As choreographic assistant to Wim Vandekeybus he has participated on the creation of the pieces Inspite of wishing & wanting, Inasmuch as life is borrowed and Blush (1999 till 2002). From 1997 on has been regularly teaching workshops related to the work of Ultima Vez.
Iñaki Azpillaga
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