(Photo credit: Paul Blakemore)
Ania
Varez
Date: Thursday 10th April
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am
Venue: Chapter Arts, Cardiff
About class
During these classes, Ania will share their practice of Flying Low and Passing Through. These techniques have been developed by David Zambrano for the last few decades, and together they offer a different approach to moving in and out of the floor: we will use a constant spiral motion to travel up and down, as well as through the space, looking to dance in connection to everyone in the room, enjoying the different pathways we may create! We will work with set sequences and also some improvisation scores.
For the improvised section of the class, we will work with our vision and how our eyes can support the flow of the improvisation, whilst the sequences are more individual and focused on finding the spiral motion in our own bodies. The class may include gentle touch. This class will be energetic, with lots of going up and down, sometimes slowly and sometimes quickly, as well as an upbeat playlist!
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About Ania
Ania Varez (they/them) is a Venezuelan dance artist and community worker based in Bristol. They graduated with honours from the London Contemporary Dance School. Ania makes experimental and collaborative performance, working with other dancers, artists of other disciplines and often with people who don't identify as artists yet. They have worked with Lisa May Thomas, Terrestrial, Nik Rawlings and Shotput Theatre. Their own work has toured internationally (Taiwan and South Korea) as well as in the UK, including SPILL Festival.They are a member of Interval, an artist support network in Bristol.
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Y Dosbarth
Yn ystod y dosbarthiadau yma, mi fydd Ania yn rhannu ei ymarfer o Flying Low a Passing Through. Mae’r technegau yma wedi cael eu datblygu yn y degawdau diwethaf gan David Zambrano, gyda’i gilydd maent yn cynnig dynesiad gwahanol i symud i fewn ac allan o’r llawr: fe fyddwn yn defnyddio symudiad troelli cyson er mwyn symud i fyny ar i lawr, ynghyd a symud trwy’r gofod, gan edrych i ddawnsio mewn cysylltiad a pawb yn yr ystafell, gan ddefnyddio llwybrau gwahanol byddwn yn creu! Fe fyddwn yn gweithio efo dilynianau set a rhai sgoriau byrfyfyriol.
Ar gyfer yr adranau byrfyfyr o’r dosbarth fe fyddwn yn gweithio efo’n golwg a su gall ein llygaid helpu llif y gwaith byrfyfyr, tra bydd y dilyniannau yn fwy unigol gan ffocysu ar ffeindio’r symudiad troelli trwy ein cyrff. Mi gall y dosbarth gynnwys cyffyrddiadau. Mi fydd y dosbarth yma yn egniol, gyda llawer o symud i fyny ac i lawr, weithiau’n araf a weithiau’n gyflym, ynghyd rhestr chwarae upbeat!
Y Ania
Mae Ania Vares (nhw/eu) yn artist dawns a gweithiwr cymunedol o Venesuela ac bellach yn byw ym Mhryste. Graddiwyd ac anrhydedd o London Contemporary Dance School. Mae Ania yn creu perfformiadau arbrofol a cydweithredol, gan weithio efo dawnswyr eraill, artistiaid â disgybliaethau gwahanol ac yn aml pobl sydd ddim yn adnabod eu hunain fel artistiaid eto. Maent wedi gweithio efo Lisa May Thomas, Terrestrial, Nik Rawlings a Shotput Theatre. Mae eu gwaith wedi teithio’n rhyngwladol (Taiwan a De Corea) ynghyd â’r Deyrnas Unedig, gan gynnwys gwyl SPILL. Maent yn aelod o Interval, rhwydwaith cefnogi artistiaid yn Bryste.