When: 11 July | 16:00 - 18:00
Where: Lucia Marthas Institute for Performing Arts, Studio 2, Lijnbaansgracht 260, Amsterdam
Tickets: €15 (online via HJS Amsterdam)
Deadline: Limited spots available, please secure your spot before 5 July
Level: Professional dancers and people trained in movement
Teacher: Guilherme Miotto
Miotto’s approach 'Instinctive Performance' is designed to cultivate the personal characteristics and impulses of the performers. The work sessions consist of assignments emerging from spontaneous and recurrent explorations into embodied cognition. Miotto works from the premise that assumptions about the world are built into the body and the brain and are largely determined by the form of the human body.
During the working sessions, the body is opened to its own existing layers of instinctual physical knowledge triggered by movement, sounds, text, situation and escalating intensities. The participants are given the space to resource and exercise their own repertoire of techniques along with their own stylistic preferences. The sessions create a context where these personal experiences are challenged to formulate new expressive tools. The in-depth psycho/physical work stimulates one to interact with and reshape their possible performance tactics. The 'Instinctive Performance' approach offers a mental and cardio training that assists in the discovery of multiple dimensions for performing states applicable towards various stage practices such as dance, theatre and mime.
About Guilherme
Guilherme Miotto (1979) is a Brazilian dancer/teacher/choreographer based in The Netherlands. Miotto has studied dance in Brazil, Russia, Germany and The Netherlands. As a dancer he featured in the works from choreographers: Emio Greco, Bruno Listopad, Krisztina de Chatel (a.o.). His choreographic work has received the following awards: in 2011 the Grand Prix of Kontrapunkt, the Magnolia Award (Szczecin, Poland) and the Best Film for Camera Rework Award at Cinedans Film Festival. In 2015, he received the André Gingras Award - this award goes to inventive choreographers who dare to risk venturing outside the established boundaries of contemporary dance. In 2016, he was the recipient of the stimuleringsprijs given by the city of Breda to exceptional and promising talents. In 2019, he was awarded the largest theater award in The Netherlands the Gieskes-Strijbs stage price. He has created work for a.o. Festival Boulevard, Festival Circolo, Festival Lieve Stad, Dansgroep Amsterdam, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, CaDance Festival, Fricties Festival (Hasselt, Belgium), Yorkshire Dance (Leeds). Since 2009 he has been teaching his own approach ‘Instinctive Performance’ at the Theatre Academy in Maastricht. He has also been invited to teach workshops at a.o. Atelier de Paris, OperaEstate Festival, and Edinburgh Festival. In 2017 he founded the company: Corpo Máquina Society (Tilburg/Breda).
The performance Mondo Perfetto by Guilherme Miotto is part of Julidans x WhyNot: OFF VENUE 2024. Read more here.