Workshops of Integrated Dance run by Marisa Brugarolas

Dance is an expressive art of communication through movement. This is a creative dance workshop in which people with or without physical disabilities can find a common physical language of communication using the different possibilities which their diverse bodies can offer.

We learn to discover Dance from a wheelchair, from the floor, from contact with others and from the experience and expression through movement. We can all learn from each other.

These workshops are for: - a mixed group of people, with or without physical handicaps. People in wheel chairs, walking frames or walking sticks are especially welcome.


AIMS

- To offer a space for artistic communication where people with or with physical handicaps can work on dance from the same level.
- To discover that all of us can express ourselves from whatever body we have.


CONTENTS

- To feel our own body. To develop sensory perceptions and motor skills.
- To develop the skill of listening and perception through the movement of the other workshop participants.
- To communicate sensations and emotions through movement
- To create group choreography starting from our own movements and those of our colleagues
- To sense musical and special stimuli.


METHODOLOGY

- All of the proposals can be carried out by all the participants. Every one adapts them to their own possibilities and needs.
- The individual time needed for the carrying out of the proposals is respected.
- The work is carried out individually, in small groups or in large groups
- We combine exercises which encourage the perception, motor development, improvisation and memory.
- The idea of group work is strengthened and the developing of a group project through an enriching process.


DURATION

- The duration of the workshop is variable, depending on the needs and possibilities of the group.
- The workshop can be of just one session having mainly an informative characteristic.
- Intensive workshops of one weekend in length
- Intensive workshops of one week in length
- Monographic workshops which take on one concrete aspect of Integrated Dance, for specialized groups.
Continuous workshops of several weeks/months with one or two sessions a week.
- Depending on the length of the workshop, there can also be a public showing at the end of the participants' work.


REQUIREMENTS

- The participants should wear loose, comfortable clothes.
- The space should be spacious, accessible with a wooden and/or parquet floor
- A good music sound system with good amplification is required
- Dressing rooms and toilets should have wheelchair access.
- Other requirements will depend on the characteristics of the workshop