Contemporary
Profitraining
with
Daniele di Felice
The class is based on the different ways each one of us approaches the floor and the fully expression of our body's physicality. The first part consists on a brief conditioning and strengthening warm up; I usually give some time for a guided improvisation so the dancers can explore their body and the way to move, following simple and easy rules that can help and suggest new ideas to better move through space. From basic and simple movements across the floor, to get the body used to, we move into more difficult and tricky moves, towards and against gravity using the power of MOMENTUM, which is fundamental especially in this part. My goal is to make sure the dancers have fun and also to break the barriers we always put on ourselves, to go beyond what we are used or comfortable to do on a daily basis and to explore and discover new ways to move and express ourselves.
Daniele di Felice
Daniele di Felice, originally from Caserta, Italy, started his professional studies in dance in 2014 at the Opus Ballet in Florence. In 2016 he moved to New York to be part of the Certificate Program at Peridance Capezio Center, where he graduated in 2018. In the same year Daniele started his collaboration as a dancer with Baira Movement Philosophy company. Moving for a short period in Detroit (USA), and as an apprentice with Annabella Lenzu/Dance Drama company. During this period, he was lucky to study with important names of the dance world such as: Vertigo Dance Company, Vim Vigor, Nuachet Guerra, Diego Alvarez Sanou, Livia Balazova, Vittoria De Ferrari Sapetto, LajaMartin and more. Daniele performed and performs in different venues in New York with choreographies by LajaMartin and Rannva Niclasen. In 2019 he was selected for the 18th edition of Springboard Danse Montreal in Canada where he performed choreographies by Jason Mabana and RUBBERBANDance Group. In the same year he attended workshops by Luca Ghedini and LajaMartin at B12 in Berlin. Daniele taught floowork at Gibney Dance in New York in 2019 and at ADT in Villafranca di Verona in 2020. In January 2020 he decided to move to Berlin to get to know new aspects of the European dance world. In July 2020, Daniele took part at the first edition of ArenaSpartacus Festival (Italy) with the solo PICTURES created by
LAJAMARTIN. Since 2021 he teaches different online and in person workshops in schools such as PopUp Dance studio (Berlin), Alonzo King Lines Ballet (San Francisco, USA), Tanzhalle (Berlin), Profitraining Leipzig and Tanzfabrik Berlin.
LAJAMARTIN. Since 2021 he teaches different online and in person workshops in schools such as PopUp Dance studio (Berlin), Alonzo King Lines Ballet (San Francisco, USA), Tanzhalle (Berlin), Profitraining Leipzig and Tanzfabrik Berlin.