Surrendering into movement
Soft acrobatics & partnering with Yotam Peled
The workshop is an exploration of the virtuosity of the body and the potential to take risks through testing different forms of mobility. The seminar integrates movement sequences from different movement methods, such as Tai-Chi, Capoeira and Flying-Low, aiming to prepare our core and build our relation to the floor. The sessions focus on expanding our technical skills, learning to approach the floor with ease, and travel the space through the release of energy and effective dynamics.
Through a technique-based warm-up and guided improvisation tasks we practice the mobility of our spine, softening and articulating, guiding and following different body parts. In the course of the practice we learn and practice different acrobatic drills, maneuvers and phrases, with a sustainable approach, as well as repertoire from Yotam's creations which integrates floor acrobatics in fluid movement, and playful partner-work inspired by wrestling and kung-fu techniques, working with counterweight and soft manipulation.
Dates and times: 15th & 16th of June, from 1 pm till 5 pm
Venue: 4fT - Tanzplattform Leipzig, Erich-Zeigner-Allee 64e, 04229 Leipzig
Price: sliding scale, 60 - 160 € for both days.
Registration: yotampeled@gmail.com
Video-Trailer "Contemporary Acrobatics Workshop":
Yotam Peled is a choreographer, performer and teacher born in Israel in ‘89. He practiced fine arts, athletics, and Capoeira since childhood, and at 21 received education in contemporary dance and circus.
In 2015 he relocated to Berlin, and since then has been working as a freelance performer and maker, creating under the ensemble ‘Yotam Peled & the Free Radicals’. His creations include: ALPHA (2019), migrena2x2 (2021), fauna futura (2021), HEIMAT (2021), GET A GRIP (2021), Where the Boys Are (2023), FISTS TO FLOWERS (2023). Yotam was a resident artist in: ‘THINK BIG’ / TANZtheater International festival Hanover, TalentLAB#19 / Grand Theater Luxembourg under the mentorship of Hofesh Shechter, the Choreographic Center of Heidelberg, TanzLabor / ROXY Ulm, Skopje Dancer Theater, Tanzhaus Zürich, PimOff Milan, Altofest Naples and developed work for Theater Strahl Berlin and in Fabrik Potsdam as part of EXPLORE DANCE project.
Yotam has been a guest teacher in Fontys Academy of Arts, Folkwang University of Arts, Dock11, Munstrum Theater, Cie. Hors Surface, Cooperativa Maura Morales, Overhead Project, PRISMA festival, IWANSON Munich and numerous festivals and dance studios in Europe and Asia.