La Caldera offers professional technique classes in collaboration with APdC (dance equity), open company trainings, summer crash courses, workshops and labs. Its main goal is to increase the movement of practical and theoretical knowledge to get close creators and different ways to approach the artistic practices.

The Labs and Workshops follow a thematic axis and all the activities orbit around it. This year theme is Dialogue between Chaos and Orderliness, between movement and dramaturgy.

Labs: A tool, theoretical and practical that allows the creator keep developing and nourishing his work.

Workshops: Thematical Crash courses to handle tools to the professionals. Both, theoretical and practical. At the end of each course there's an open Master Class.

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TECHNIQUE CLASSES FOR PROFESSIONALES APdC - La Caldera 2011 L/X/V from 9:30am to 11am

Bebeto Cidra
from 10th January to 28th February
Sonia Rodríguez
from 2nd March to 29th April
Lipi Hernández
from 2nd May to 29th June
Anna Rubirola
from 19th September to 31st October
Cecilia Colacrai
from 2nd November to 30th December
 
OTHER TRAININGS
IYENGAR YOGA
Susana Castro

Every tuesday and thursday from 9.30am to 11am
 
LABS 2011

This year we have proposed to the dramatist Guy Cools (Belgium) two labs which its main goal is to handle dramaturgy tools to the resident artists and follow their process.

LAB 1. with Guy Cools from 11th to 15th April 10am - 2pm
LAB 2. with Guy Cools from 30th May to 3rd June 10am - 2pm

Creative development for choreographers and their artistic collaborators.

The workshop will offer the participants practical tools and exercises to reflect upon, to evaluate and eventually to transform and improve their creative process. Using the cross, circle and labyrinth as graphic symbols, I will introduce the essential polarities of the creative process: perception, articulation, intuition, experience. In the workshop we will focus on perception (what to look for), articulation (how to express oneself best in order to get what one is looking for) and interdisciplinary practices (looking at how artists work in other disciplines and finding creative ‘translations’ of this toward one’s own practice).
One or more session will deal specifically with the potential function of dance dramaturgy within the creative process. I will discuss the role of the dramaturge in this process, a.o. as witness, moderator and editor and I will illustrate dance dramaturgy as a creative, somatic praxis, using a number of case studies from my own practice with a.o. Les Ballets C de la B, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan.
The final goal of the workshop is to gain a different, renewed perspective of one’s own creative and choreographic process and methodologies.

 
WORKSHOPS 2011

Victoria Szpunberg Dance and writing. A feedback process.
from 14th to 18th February from 10am to 2pm.
This workshop main goal is to experiment the relationship between dance and dramaturgy; between the body (its presence and its action) and the dramatic sense that adopts. The aim is allow the participants create dramatic departing points from their own compositions and analise their expeienced sense of movement.

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Tijen Lawton Energy and intention accuracy.
from 4th to 8th April from 10am to 2pm
The understanding of the body is stablished from the ground and we move from there. There's a constant duel between the control and the risk, the structure and the impulse. The use of a conscient shape, the muscualr instinct and the muscular freedom to create the accuracy and intensity of the movement, filling the open space with energy.

This workshop is included in the activities organized by cia Les filles Föllen for the project Unter der schönen Haut (premiere 16th June at Antic Teatre Barcelona).

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Lali Aiguadé From gravity to lightness
from 12th to 16th of September from 10 to 2pm

This work is based on how we use the basement where we dance, giving meaning to our ground support, feet, as the
foundation of our movement. The strength is in our feet and legs to free the body to express for itself. The kind of movement
worked at class is fast, but doesn't forget the detail. Also the movement continuity is very important, the feeling of our
inexhaustible body energy never ends even when we're standing still, there's movement. In the class we'll work the
repertoire of the latest piece of Akram Khan company, Bahok.

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Yahn Lheureux Improvisation immediate composition and Interpretation.
from 26th to 30th September

Yann Lheureux begins its dancer’s career in 1986, by creating street shows of dance Hip-hop. He obtains in 1987 and 1988, the « solo international First prize « (Turin and Béthune) during the Choreographic Meetings of the French Federation of Dance. Awarded a diploma in Body Mind Centering (Amberst / USA), Yann Lheureux intervenes as trainer and manages training courses with numerous public, in France and abroad. From 1990 till 1994, he works in the Companies Monbin Danse, Sylvie Deluz, M.Dooge, C.Sapin, Didier Théron. The same year, the Company Yann Lheureux is created in Montpelier. From 1995 till 1998, he dances with Philippe Saire, Hervé Diasnas … During performances, he dances with Marc Thomkins, Urs Stauffer, Vera Mantero, Thierry Bac, Mathilde Monnier, Julien Hamilton, Bar Philips... In June, 2003, the Company invests the Atelier in Montpelier: a place of creation, choreographic distribution, research and education. This setting-up begins its structuralization as well as the artistic questioning of Yann Lheureux concerning the crossings of writing and the notion of territory. A theme which will be declined from then on under various forms and in all his creations. Since, he conceived and carried to the public of numerous pieces, both in France and in the International. CORPUSMEDIA 2011 supported by Euroregion

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SUMMER CRASH COURSE 2011
Susan Klein Klein Technique
from the 1st to 12th August - 11am to 2pm
In keeping with this year's theme at La Caldera of chaos and orderliness, this year's Klein Technique™ workshop will focus on the integration of energy and structure in the body. Energy represents movement and structure stillness. Energy is change into the future, representing our potential, and structure is the now, the present, where change can only take place. Chaos offers the opportunity to change and orderliness structures that change. In Klein Technique™, the body can be talked about, analyzed, and intellectually understood, and our goal is to make change in the functioning of the body. Towards this end we will focus on working on the level of the bone. The bone is the deepest, densest structural tissue of the body that conducts the most energy. Through using clear directions and learning to use the deep muscles of postural support (the psoas, the hamstrings, the pelvic floor, and the external rotators) the bones are brought into connection, and the body is brought into order. By working slowly and thoughtfully we bring movement and the subtleties of movement up to consciousness, so it can be analyzed, ordered, and integrated into the good functioning of the body. www.kleintechnique.com

Susan Klein has been developing and teaching Klein Technique™ since 1972 teaching daily classes in New York City at her studio The Susan Klein School of Movement and Dance. Since 1989 she has been traveling throughout the world teaching intensive workshops in Klein Technique™. Klein Technique™ is a result of a serious knee injury and developed out of Susan’s personal journey to get well. It serves as a way for people to work through their individual injuries, to understand and improve the workings of their bodies, to heal themselves and become better dancers. Her main influences in developing her work are Irmgard Bartenieff, Dr. Fritz Smith, and Professor J. R. Worsley. Susan has a private practice as a Movement Therapist, Certified Zero Balancer, Senior Zero Balancing Teacher, and Traditional 5 Element Worsley Style Acupuncturist, L.Ac., B.Ac.(UK), M.Ac.,(USA), Dipl. Ac.(NCCAOM). www.kleintechnique.com/instructors-sk.html

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Roberto Olivan Instinct as a movement source
from 1st to 12th August - 5pm to 9pm
He proposes a dance that relates to speed and accuracy. The workshop final goal is to support and help to be fearless to the movement in a specific context. Specially working with our animal instinct and our own creativity to develop and find out the infinite movement possibilities.

Born in Tortosa, he started his studies at Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, and continued his training at P.A.R.T.S. (Bruselles, Belgium). He has danced with ROSAS (director Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker) all over the world befor becoming a resident choreographer at HET NET theatre (Belgium), where he created his first choreographic piece.
He is the artistic Director of the Internacional Contemporary Dance festival from 2004.

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Joaquim Sabaté Tibetan massage workshop
Sunday, 31st July from 4pm to 7pm

Joaquim Sabaté Intensiu de masatge Tibetà
from 1st to 5th August from 3.30pm to 8.30pm

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Check always our web to confirm schedule. All this informations can suffer last minute changes. La Caldera cand modify and/or cancel any of these events. If you need more information or you want to take part of a course send an email to aula@lacaldera.info