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EDAM presents
a workshop with Company Blu Danza

December 8-12
Monday-Friday 10am-3pm
Cost $250 plus GST

About Company Blu Danza
Alessandro Certini and Charlotte Zerbey have worked in the European contemporary dance scene since 1979. In 1989 they established the Florence based Company Blu Danza.

Charlotte and Alessandro's projects have brought together dancers, musicians and video artists interested in the vibrant fragility of the performance moment. Their artistic endeavours share a common vision of dance where the body is a physical and emotional instrument within a system of change.

Each Blu Danza creation is a composed "product" as well as a "process" of developed contexts, instant composition and defined choreography, an approach that combines formal and instinctive aspects of movement. These works highlight the body as material of intuition and thought, using theme to liberate dance from its usual aesthetic confines.

Company Blu promotes a yearly performance series, DINAMICHE SCOMPOSTE inquiries on contemporary dance and improvisation, which includes performances, meetings, research labs and the publication SHOPTALK. The Company's activities are supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Tuscan Region and the City of Sesto Fiorentino.

THE WORKSHOP will consist of two 2 hour classes:

SPONTANEOUS CHOICES with Charlotte Zerbey
This class will focus on howÊwe integrate impulses in various contexts of improvisation. We will work on different ways of sourcing movement material and on how to create responses that are tuned with our innate nature of rooting and supporting. We will explore presence, expression and communication through movement and the improvised process.

COLLECTIVE NARRATIVES with Alessandro Certini This class will focus on dance improvisation as a collective act. We will practice and refine our ability to develop group work, creating dances where our physical narratives are generated and related to the other performer's choices.

The instructors:

ALESSANDRO CERTINI began his dance training in Florence with Streiff Traut Faggioni (Wigman, Kreutzberg). He has been influenced by Post-Modern techniques (ballet) and Contact Improvisation. His professional career started in 1979 as a founding member of Groupo, directed by Katie Duck. Over the last 30 years Alessandro has worked with improvisation and choreographic skills, combining dance and theatre to create his own vocabulary and style. He has worked in many performances and productions with leading improvisers includingÊ K. Duck, J. Hamilton, M. Tompkins, S. Paxton, K. Simson, L. Nelson, P. De Groot, C. Zerbey, F. Poulstra, and musicians T. Honsinger, S. Lacy, M. Moore, S. Noble, A. Salis. He has been a guest teacher at Dartington College (G.B.), SNDO (Amsterdam), Accademia d'Arte Drammatica (Milano), EDDC (Dusseldorf), Studio Area (Barcelona), Bewegungs Art Freiburg, Istituto de Danza (Caracas), Accademia Nazionale della Danza (Roma), studio Company Blu and other Italian dance venues.

Originally from Michigan, CHARLOTTE ZERBEY trained in modern dance at the University of Utah. Over the last 25 years her work has transformed into a multidisciplinary expression of dance and textual movement using song and poetry. Her performance vocabulary is influenced by an interest in the emancipation of the body through studies in vocal work, Contact Improvisation and Authentic Movement. Charlotte often works with musicians and originally composed scores and with meaning as it is communicated through gesture.

Charlotte moved to Europe in 1983 and toured extensively with Groupo through 1987. She has taken part in many collaborative endeavours, includingÊ projects with Gaby Agis and Co.(1987), Virgilio Sieni (Florence 1991); Company Hamilton (London, 1992) and Sasha Waltz and Guests (Berlin, 1993). An accomplished improviser, she has worked with K. Duck, A. Certini, S. Paxton, P. DeGroot, J. Hamilton, K. Simson, N. S. Smith, A. Alessi, L. Nelson. Charlotte has also directed and choreographed a number of productions, including City Bits (1994), Bones (1996) for EDDC Arnhem, Idiom (2001) and Sacred Misunderstandings (2007) for Bewegungs Art Freiburg.

CharlotteÕs teaching includes touch and relationship asÊ principle tools to help students find their own voice, bringing them easily towards performance and composition. She has taught at Dartington College of Arts, (England), EDDC Arnhem (Holland), SNDO Amsterdam, Accademia Arte Dramatica (Milano), IALS (Rome) Studio Area Barcelona (Spain), Bewegungs Art Freiburg (Germany), Istituto de Danza Superiore Caracas (Venezuela), Accademia Nazionale della Danza and IALS (Roma), CPDC Firenze.

To register . . . Send a non-refundable deposit of $75, payable to EDAM Dance, to

EDAM Dance
303 East 8th Ave
Vancouver, BC V5T 1S1

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