I teach Contemporary dance training with emphasis on spirals and floor work. We start the class by opening our channels of awarness and feel the inside and the outside, everyone and everything that surrounds us.

The warm-up is focused on passing through the whole body and expanding our flexibility and strength — never abandoning a flow of natural and organic movement and feeling our feet as our base and connection to the ground.

We use the playfulness to get inspired, let go and surprise ourselves. With the help of exercises and games in different constellations — in a group, with a partner and by ourselves — we listen to the weight of our body and direct it through the space, putting awareness into proximity and distance as well as our orientation and relationship to the room and the others. We play with the off-balance and shift of the axis.

Another important aspect of the training is the attention to the momentum in movement, the grounding of our center, the natural flow of breath and the expansion of our extremities. By integrating changes of dynamic and musicality into our movement phrases we constantly recycle our energy and avoid muscle-fatigue. We move as a continuous spiral into the floor and out of the floor, using the attack and release as our guidelines and try to work from the bones and the spiral connections in our body, letting go of unnecessary tensions and holding of the muscles. The skeleton as a motor for movement and the center as the inside of a flower that grows into all directions. The clearer and stronger our connection to the ground, more freely we can move. We learn which parts of the body are pushing and receiving the floor and which can relax and react to the impulses. I like to dance with a strong and physical movement quality using the eyes scanning the space constantly.

As techniques of inspiration for my class I use a lot dynamics of a wave or the wind, as well as the image of an octopus expanding from the centre.

I am very inspired by the Flying Low technique by David Zambrano and the Release technique mixed with my personal investigation.

I like to establish a collective mind and body inside the class to enhance the group power giving an energetic push

to the individual source of creativity.

Besides the movement class I teach a physical theater workshop / class.

Photos Tanya Mod and Denis Laner for NUJ Magazine and Mónica Lou Mercadé

We start the class by opening our channels of consciousness, meeting everything that is inside and outside us. Through sensing our body in its entirety, we give attention to the physical, instinctive, and emotional body. By awakening our voice, we establish a raised awareness of our breath. Through experimenting with all these elements and playing with changes in rhythm, dynamic, intention, tension and the connection to our bodies and movement, we aim to discover new facettes of our persona.

We constantly step out of our comfort zone through playfulness, aim for surprise and immerse ourselves in the work of physical theater. By feeling and moving as different characters we bring them to life and continously create new extensions of ourselves.