DANCE THEATRE OF IRELAND
INVESTigations

Mal Pelo (ESP)
Guest International Workshop - December 11 & 12 2006, Dublin

Dance Theatre of Ireland host the 3rd in their INVESTigations series; a 2-day Special-Guest Workshop led by Pep Ramis and María Muñoz of Cie Mal Pelo.

INVESTigations is a New initiative enabling professional dancers & choreographers to work with eminent International Artists in a creative research setting, exploring movement and choreographic structures unique to each choreographer. A process focused on what we make, how we make it and what we learn in the creative process. An inspirational way for professional dancers and choreographers to take time out to look at ways to approach development of vocabulary, choreography and performance.

Mal Pelo is one of Spain's most innovative and theatrical dance companies. Their poetic view of the world is delivered in finely etched, high-charged, multi-disciplinary work employing film, theatre, text, poetry, original music/sound and passionate choreography. Creating work which can be at once funny, dark, and deeply theatrical, their work pursues a freedom (and rigour) that is simply thrilling. They are exceptional and charismatic performers, touring internationally and regularly to Dance Umbrella.

In their workshop, The Silence and the Possibility to Imagine, Dance is an immediate physical experience, but its poetry is complex, it must be extended through time in order to be understood at its deepest level, going beyond the first reading. This workshop will focus on the idea and practice of the Pause-Silence. Going from silence to movement by means of improvising. Improvisation originated in a chain of decisions where the accumulated life experiences, the senses and the possibility to imagine are equal part.

The workshop is a practical approach to the working method that Mal Pelo use in their approach to movement and the creative act. They work from a model that allows each person to reflect on the the relationship of the centre to the periphery; the use of weight - from balance to imbalance; the use of suspension and momentum in making changes of direction, and the movement possibilities related to the natural use of the joints.

The 2-day course will be: Monday & Tuesday, December 11 & 12, 10am - 4pm at Dance Theatre of Ireland's Centre for Dance in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin

Open to professional dancers and choreographers. To apply for the Workshop - tel: ++353 (0)1 280 3455 Email: danceire@iol.ie