Somatic Booty Shaking
Workshop
with
Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica
In the frame of OsterTanz 2024
We will challenge our physicality with playfulness by working with rhythm, somatic practices, body and space awareness, performativity, pleasure, and joy.
This aim of this practice is to invite negotiations with our weight, to release tensions, strengthen the core, and to encourage liveliness. It understands the pelvis as the moving motor of our bodies, and it opposes to straight lines and stiff verticality to transform them into curves, animalistic, and rhythmical bodies.
Accessibility Note
The workshop will be held in spoken English, follow-up questions for clarification can also be asked in German or Spanish. Oral explanations will be an important part of the workshop. Partner work with touching will be an optional, small part of the workshop. Consensus will be sought for hands-on corrections. Pop and loud music will be used. Coordination and combination exercises and movement phrases to remember will be part of the workshop. The focus of the work will be on the anatomically and energetic available execution of movements and on working healthily and efficiently, to build up stamina and resistance. If needed, a free workshop place for an accompanying assistant will be provided for participants with disabilities. Information about our location & studio access in Kreuzberg, which unfortunately not wheelchair accessible, can be found here. For questions or more information, please contact Zoé Duflot at workshop@tanzfabrik-berlin.de.
This aim of this practice is to invite negotiations with our weight, to release tensions, strengthen the core, and to encourage liveliness. It understands the pelvis as the moving motor of our bodies, and it opposes to straight lines and stiff verticality to transform them into curves, animalistic, and rhythmical bodies.
Accessibility Note
The workshop will be held in spoken English, follow-up questions for clarification can also be asked in German or Spanish. Oral explanations will be an important part of the workshop. Partner work with touching will be an optional, small part of the workshop. Consensus will be sought for hands-on corrections. Pop and loud music will be used. Coordination and combination exercises and movement phrases to remember will be part of the workshop. The focus of the work will be on the anatomically and energetic available execution of movements and on working healthily and efficiently, to build up stamina and resistance. If needed, a free workshop place for an accompanying assistant will be provided for participants with disabilities. Information about our location & studio access in Kreuzberg, which unfortunately not wheelchair accessible, can be found here. For questions or more information, please contact Zoé Duflot at workshop@tanzfabrik-berlin.de.
Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica
Maria Mercedes Flores Mujica is a syncretic inter(un)disciplinary Venezuelan dance artist based in Cologne. Her classes and choreographies are based on the multidimensionality of rhythm and its perception. With empowerment-oriented, pleasure driven body practices, and aesthetics of the informal she creates performative ecosystems in and outside the stage. Her physical practice is based on the knowledges of folk and contemporary dance, celebration and rituals, social interaction, and a connection to a variety of cosmologies. Since 2019 she creates her own works in collaboration with different artists such as ON:Joy with Constanza Ruiz, flounce into flounce with Seongmin Yuk, What, Where, When are we?! with some amazing creatures. She has been awarded the Tanzrecherche NRW 2024 scholarship to continue and deepen her practice artistic practice.