Gaga/People & Fluid Identities (waiting list)
Workshop
with
Tanja Saban
In the frame of Sommer Tanz 2022
The quality of our perception determines the quality of our movement. we enter the territory of anatomy – our multi layered internal landscapes – coming into clarity with our sensory body through movement, imagery and touch. We differentiate layers, refine our sensory awareness and integrate it relative to how we sequence movement in our bodies and the development of our compositional / choreographic sense. From there we develop our creative process on embodying and connecting with sound and space – inner body / interpersonal space / collective space / universal space. In a playful way we devise choreographic situations in which we explore how we move through the different layers of space. We build our compositional sense on the understanding that in our sensory experience everything is relational, how dramatic tension lives in the principles of contrast, polarity & unity and how that allows our dancing bodies to inhabit and morph into a wide scope of states and expressions.
Tanja Saban
Born and raised in Switzerland, Tanja Saban graduated from SEAD training program in 2007. She is a recipient of the conveyor scholarship from the Tanzquartier in Vienna, where she started her career as a freelance dancer and teacher. She collaborates with choreographers and artists of other disciplines on projects as well as creating her own work in Austria, Spain,Switzerland, Israel and New York City. After taking her first Gaga classes in 2011 in New York, she moved to Tel Aviv one year later where Gaga became part of her daily practice. In 2018 she got certified to teach Gaga after completing the teachers course under the artistic direction of Bosmat Nossan. She has since taught Gaga in studios and for dance companies as well as co-taught workshops in Europe. In 2008, besides dancing, she began to immerse herself more deeply into the practice and study of yoga with her teacher Sri Louise, under whose guidance she completed 400 hours of training in Vienna and Rishikesh, India. She was invited to assist Sri Louise in workshops and a 50 hour yoga teacher training for dancers at Impulstanz Festival in 2011, 2013 and 2018.