Workshop I Sasha Waltz & Guests – Repertoire Workshop mit Maria Colusi

About the class

This five-day workshop is aimed at experienced dancers and performers interested in engaging deeply with the movement language and choreographic practices developed within the repertoire of Sasha Waltz.

Each 105-minute session begins with a warm-up led by Maria Colusi, followed by a practice-based exploration of selected repertoire material.

Drawing on her long-term experience with the company, Maria Colusi offers participants insight into the physical and compositional approaches that have shaped Sasha Waltz’s work, while encouraging individual interpretation, curiosity and critical engagement with the material.

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About Maria Colusi

Maria Colusi is an Argentinian dancer, choreographer and teacher based in Berlin. She was member of the Contemporary Ballet Teatro General San Martin,Tangokinesis Company and since 2003 of Sasha Waltz & Guests. She has simultaneously developed her own choreographic work in collaboration with composers, visual artists and musicians to transport the audience into a landscape of dance, music and stage design.

»Displaced / Angekommen« 2022, »When Painting becames Attitude« 2021, »Sink« 2019, »Querandi« 2018, »Tone undertow« 2015, »Topo« 2014, »Witness« 2013. As a choreographer she has worked with various directors and visual artists: Ola Mafaalanni, Holand, Kazuki Nakahara, Japan, Dominik Lejman, Poland, Alejandro Tantania and Luciano Suardi, Argentina. Her works have been performed in several venues as Radialsystem, ZAK, Dock11, Philarmonie Stettin, Kunst Festival des Arts, Berliner Ensemble, Theater kapelle, Schloss Solitude, Centro Artistico it Grattaclelo, Laborgras among others. Her artistic work was supported by Inicial 1&2 2022-2021 of the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Dis-tanz-solo 2020-2022 of the Dachverband Tanz Stipendien, Takecare- Darstellende Künste 2021, Stipendien SonderProgramm 2020, Einstiegförderung 2017 of the Berlin Senate, and Fundacion Antorchas, Argentina.

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She teaches improvisation and composition workshops locally and internationally for companies, dance centres, and universities including: Marameo, Tanzhalle Berlin, Tanzfabrik - Dance Intensive Programme, Universtiy of Art Berlin, HZT- BA dance program, University of Arts, Argentina, UNA, Institut del Teatre ITI / Spain, B12 Summer Festival Berlin, Dock11, PRODA, Norway, Laborgras, Radialsystem, Die Etage, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Staatsballet, Berlin, Cdsh Hamburg /Germany, Associazione Europea Danza /Italy, Maslool dance school /Israel, Tanzschule mk /South Korea and Labcamp- Goethe Institut in Sri Lanka.

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