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Esplanade Presents
6 Dec 2024, Fri, 11am
(Intermission: None)
Esplanade Rehearsal Studio (Meeting Point: Theatre Studio, Level 4, 15mins before start time)
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This workshop is an opportunity to experience the choreographic language of Rachid Ouramdane, Director of the Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse in Paris. Led by Rachid, the class will introduce participants to the distinct approach to movement as seen in his work Corps extrêmes. Combining dance and some acrobatic skills, participants will explore concepts and tools to move through space with fluidity, flight, weightlessness and suspension.
This is a high-intermediate level contemporary dance workshop suitable for dance and circus practitioners, as well as advanced full-time dance students and serious hobbyists who have been actively training. No prior experience with acrobatics is required.
Be sure to catch Corps extrêmes by Rachid Ouramdane / Compagnie de Chaillot presented as part of da:ns focus – Out of Site, a weekend of programmes that invites you to the terrain where extreme sports and dance meet.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the workshop as patrons who arrive after the workshop has started will not be admitted into the venue.
Please wear comfortable clothing suitable for movement.
Rachid Ouramdane
At the age of twelve, Rachid Ouramdane discovered dance through hip-hop. He also took intensive courses in classical and modern dance. In the early 1990s, he dropped out of his studies in biology to devote himself fulltime to dance and joined the Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers. As a performer and choreographer, he has worked with Meg Stuart, Odile Duboc, Hervé Robbe, Alain Buffard, Christian Rizzo, Julie Nioche and Emmanuelle Huynh. Rachid Ouramdane’s creations are often marked by the seal of testimony and intimate experience (refugee children, victims of torture or natural disasters, amateur athletes, etc), from which he weaves a structured choreography. Rachid Ouramdane collaborates with circus artists (Compagnie XY), authors (Pascal Rambert, Sonia Chiambretto), visual artists (Nicolas Floch' and Mehdi Meddaci), and musicians (Jean-Baptiste Julien and Alexandre Meyer) for his own creations as well as for commissioned works and workshops. With an ambitious project based on diversity and hospitality, he has been director of Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse in Paris since April 2021.
6 Dec 2024, Fri
11am
(Meeting Point: Theatre Studio, Level 4, 15mins before start time)
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Price | $30 |
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