Contemporary Dance I »Depth Movement« with Edivaldo Ernesto

About the class

This is an intense and dense group dynamic class. It is about energy, about constantly challenging your limits. Understanding what defines you as a dancer and pushing those boundaries over and over again. Allowing the environmentto influence your dancing skills, refining tools to create new movement qualities and new rhythms. Digging deeper inside the range of your own personal dance vocabulary, becoming anyone or anything. Working with partnering, multi-directionalmicro-narrative movements to transformas a whole group. Learning how to effectively be unpredictable, how to recycle energy, how to use the body as your primary tool. Edivaldo guarantees a new process of study in which he goes as a teacher and guidance parallel to your learning process and makes you take the step of digesting the work to get to a completely new level.

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About Edivaldo Ernesto

Edivaldo Edivaldo Ernesto was born in Maputo, Mozambique, and is a dancer, choreographer, teacher and expert in improvisation. After traditional African as well as contemporary dance education in Mozambique, his work took him to Europe. In 2007 he moved to Berlin. Since then Edivaldo Ernesto has been working closely with Sasha Waltz & Guests in numerous productions as a permanent member as well as a guest of the company. He shares an intensive working relationship of many years with the Venezuelan dancer-choreographer and teacher of the »Flying low« technique David Zambrano. Since 2011, Edivaldo Ernesto has also been developing his own workshops and dance techniques. He teaches his workshops »Depth Movement« and »Next Level« at schools and festivals worldwide. In 2015, his first choreographic solo »Tears« was premiered, with which he toured Europe, Asia and South America. His second production »Brace« premiered at the Kalamata festival in 2022 and toured throughout Europe. He has been developing his own pieces as well as projects with Oscar-winning, innovative pianist and instrumentalist Volker Bertelmann aka »Hauschka«, the choreographer Linda Kapetanea and the trumpeter Marco Blaauw, as well as with Musikfabrik at the Festival MaerzMusik initiated by Berliner Festspiele. His project »I Can’t Breathe« was awarded »Best Performer« by the jury of the 2020 Italian Danza & Danza Awards among others.

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