DANZA ALFAIA
Paula Quintas is the director, coordinator and teacher of Danza Alfaia. Dance School in Santiago de Compostela. #12 years
For more than ten years she has been giving regular training at Danza Alfaia, in Santiago de Compostela with a program at different levels of experimentation and physical condition in relation to contemporary dance. The program is divided into different research blocks, on the one hand movement laboratory or Movement Research where, through different techniques such as Gaga or Laban, we will arrive at a 360º movement and a self-expressive language of non-verbal communication, analyzing different qualities, dynamics, states and textures to better understand our personality in both organic and inorganic movement, and on the other hand the technique in contemporary dance and physical conditioning, understood as more formal choreographic work in a way that works with different starting techniques; release, Cunningham, flying low, and ground acrobatics.
Contemporary creation is another important point in my pedagogical research, promoting stage practice and work around video-dance and performance, developing body work closely related to objects, where through them and with them, we can reach experience other physical states helping us get out of gravity.
DANCE & PUBLIC SPACE
The body is language. Public space is a shared stage. This workshop offers an exploration of contemporary dance as a tool for expression and transformation within the urban environment.
Through movement, improvisation and collective creation, we will examine how we inhabit everyday places: squares, streets, walls and forgotten corners.
The aim is not merely to dance, but to intervene, engage in dialogue and reinvent the space around us, transforming it into a living space for encounter, art and memory.
This workshop integrates the principles of movement analysis developed by Rudolf Laban with concepts of spatial architecture, encouraging the exploration of the body in relation to space, form and structure. Through practical activities and theoretical reflections, we propose an interdisciplinary approach combining dance, pedagogy and architecture, highlighting the importance of the body as a perceptual and creative tool.
Aimed at people with or without dance experience, this workshop invites participants to open up their bodies and their gaze, and to discover new ways of connecting with one another and with the world we navigate every day. Body, city, presence.
A gesture can transform a space. A step can tell a story.
QUANTUM DANCE
This workshop invites anyone who wants to learn about quantum chromodynamics and other wonders to interact with the possibilities for exploration their bodies offer, in movement and in dialogue with the environment.
The public will be able to participate in a session designed to connect art and science by hybriding theoretical parameters and artistic practices.
