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David Zambrano
An inspiring teacher, Zambrano has contributed generously to the field of
dance in ways that have influenced many and impacted the dance world from
several angles. His development of the "Flying Low" and "Passing Through"
techniques are among his recent innovations that have helped to lead
improvisational dance into an exciting future.
Improvisation on Stage
Students learn to create instant pieces of dance onstage in front of an
audience through learning to use one's life experience and being able to
consciously and continuously shape one's energy, integrating the body and mind,
time and space, through the practice of dance improvisation. The workshop
begins with students improvising solos, duets, and small groups utilizing the
class as an audience. Zambrano pushes the students to realize that there is
always something more inside and that performing is spontaneous. The students
are urged to break down old habits to search for new possibilities, becoming more
flexible as they learn to communicate within their bodies, the bodies of fellow
performers, and the environment in which they are working. Zambrano asks his
students to accept everything one can imagine, especially the impossible, and
to learn to call upon it when creating an improvisation.
Flying-Low Dance Technique
This workshop focuses mainly on the dancer's
relationship with the floor. The class utilizes simple movement patterns
that involve breathing, speed and the release of energy throughout the body in
order to activate the relationship between the center and the joints, moving in
and out of the ground more efficiently by maintaining a centered state. There
is a focus on the skeletal structure that will help improve the dancer's
physical perception and alertness. The class includes partnering work and movement
phrases, which explore the primary laws of physics: cohesion and expansion.
Dance Web Workshop
In the making of movement compositions, David Zambrano focuses on creating
and developing the dynamics for complex systems to present leadership in the
form of a group web. In science, cells do not need a protein leader to create
life. Neither does the brain need one protein leader to create a thought. With
this in mind, Zambrano feels that movement needs no leader in creation. After
taking part in the dance web,
the student will learn to instantly connect with their environment and become
more spontaneous in the making of choices as an improviser, choreographer or
dancer in someone else's work.