Flying low – Passing through
Workshop
with
Narendra Patil
In the frame of SommerTanz 2023
After more than 15 years of close collaboration with David Zambrano, Narendra shares his rich experience experimenting with principles of Flying Low and combining them with his own approaches to movement. Flying Low focuses mainly on the relationship of dancers to the floor. At the beginning of the workshop, you will use simple movement patterns that incorporate breathing, speed, and the release of energy throughout the body to activate the connection between the body center and the joints and move more efficiently in and out of the floor by maintaining a centered state. Emphasis is placed understanding and utilizing the skeletal structure, which helps to improve our physical awareness and alertness. Using partner work and movement phrases, you will explore the primary laws of physics: Cohesion and Expansion. We will also focus on the visible and invisible spirals that run through the body. In this way, a spontaneous composition emerges from "going through". When the group becomes a spirit, it can never get lost, there is never one person leading, everyone follows. The whole group is constantly traveling and weaving their bodies together. Flying low philosophy can be useful to develop our own dancing, artistic work and be ready to shape our energy at any point.
Accessibility Note
Accessibility Note
The workshop will be held in spoken English. Movement exercises will include improvisation and set movement vocabulary, where coordination and memory skills will be necessary. The very physical movement vocabulary, often in continues flow, requires a strong background of contemporary dance technique. Information about our location & studios in Kreuzberg, which unfortunately are not wheelchair accessible, can be found here. For questions or more information, please contact Zoé Duflot & Elisabeth Leopold at workshop@tanzfabrik-berlin.de.
Narendra Patil
Narendra is an Indian independent artist based in Kassel (Germany), working as teacher and guest professor for a variety of dance institutions and universities, as well as developing his own creations. His work, with current emphasis in improvisation and physical movement, utilises the experiences encountered in his life to draw upon, constructing safe and deeply authentic environments, bringing the students fully into a learning and creative process. He has spent the last fifteen years studying the methods of Flying Low and Passing Through, created by David Zambrano, the main focus of his teaching practice, and ambassador of sharing this work across India, Europe and further afield. This is a fundamental part of his movement practice and philosophical understanding of what dance represents in the wider context of community and culture. Narendra was introduced to traditional dance forms from a young age and graduated from Terence Lewis Dance Foundation Scholarship Trust in India. He has been a principal performer, teacher and assistant choreographer at Terence Lewis Contemporary Dance Company for 10 years in Mumbai. He was awarded the Black belt in Okinawa Martial Arts and completed a Yoga teachers training programme from the oldest yoga centre in the world «The Yoga Institute». His experience training under the stalwarts of Martial art, Contemporary dance in India and Europe inspired him to create and develop his own dance vocabulary called «IndYog- Contemporary» and «Expressive Body».