Atelierul Internațional Sparkling Imagination: Improvisation Workshop
Profesor Horacio Macuacua
Atelierul Internațional Sparkling Imagination: Improvisation Workshop
Profesor Horacio Macuacua
CCD workshops can be held in both Romanian and English!
Workshop Description:
"The inflexibility of the established paralyzes the movement, dims the ingenuity, casts a shadow over surprise. But life force makes us adaptable, it gives us the opportunity to transform space and to translate energy into matter, matter into its own evolution. The outline of the spontaneous is blurred to disappear, the margins of the predictable are softened and we know the interrogation point that questions the automatic response. The body allows us to transcend."
Horacio proposes a highly physical work that demands attention, interest and intensity rather than a certain technique level, challenging the potentiality of each dancer to push the limits of body imagination and expression further to discover new and surprising possibilities.
The workshop evolves with what the group offers, as the ability to create and compose physically need training and attention as well as technique or style. Through the group process the participants learn from each other through acceptance and transformation, collaboration and observation of their own dance and of the whole group.
Let’s dive into the work, get the engines started and let the imagination flow! Let’s dance!"
Teacher’s Biography:
The Mozambican dancer and choreographer is the artistic director of the dance company which bears his name. Horacio Macuacua develops projects that aim to go beyond established forms. Flexibility of mind and availability to catch the moment translate movement instantly into compositions that are complex and elaborated, displaying depth and playfulness, darkness and light. Each composition is a journey to reinvent and transform within the parameters of meaning.
He has carried out his projects: “COMUM”, “Canais”, “Orobroy, Stop!” (1st Prize and Puma Creative Prize at Danse l’Afrique Danse Festival 2010), “Smile If You Can!”, “Fighting room”, “Convoy”, “Paradise is not in the sky!” and “Theka”.
Horacio has collaborated with choreographers Cristina Moura, Thomas Hauert, George Khumalo, Wim Vandekeybus/Última Vez ... and David Zambrano, considering him his maestro and mentor.
As a teacher he has given classes and workshops in France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Cyprus, USA, South Korea, Brazil, South Africa, Mozambique, etc….
Company’s Description:
Contemporary Creative Dreamers Dance Company is an independent cultural organization which carries out its activity in the field of Choreographic Art since 2018, the year in which the company was established at the initiative of the choreographer Daniel Alexandru Dragomir.
The purpose of the organization is to build a favorable context for carrying out activities artistic in the area of contemporary dance, for young dancers, performers, composers and visual artists.
Among the main objectives are listed:
1. Development of Choreographic Art in Romania through the production and broadcasting of performances by contemporary dance at national and international level;
2. Increasing the quality of training of professional dancers by organizing programs intensive professional training;
3. Supporting the new generation of professionals through projects dedicated to pupils and students state and private vocational education institutions;
4. Encouraging the practice of contemporary dance as a form of physical development by any person by constantly organizing contemporary dance workshops for amateurs;
5. Connecting to the international context and building an educational platform international by inviting and hosting workshops supported by teachers who operates in the European Union, the United States of America and Asia;