BLENARD AZIZAJ
Deep and Chaotic

2nd Week – 2 hours/day
17:00 – 19:00

The workshop addresses the “animal” instinct within us: dynamic movement, sharpness, speed; forms assuming attack position. The class paints, through dancing, an imaginary landscape using the body’s sensibility as a brush: constantly constructing and de-constructing movement, roughening it up in order to refine it by making it real.

The warm up consists of small tasks build through improvisation to build a common energy. The state of mind becomes a state of body. The small tasks will slowly transform stories and they will, in turn, end up in a high-energy dance combination: a complete narrative of mapping real movement.

Blenard Azizaj was born in Albania. He graduated at the National State School of Greece, as a dancer, dance teacher and choreographer. He has worked and collaborated with Sasha Waltz & Guests (Berlin, Germany), Akram Khan Company (London, England), Linga dance Company (Lausanne, Switzerland), Hellenic dance Company (Athens, Greece). His career involves, touring and performing in big international dance festivals around the globe. He is also teaching his dance technique in big dance companies in dance and theatre academies, and in several dance studios around the world. His past collaborative and his own choreographic pieces were Needs (2012, Italy) and Fleeting Feathers (2015, Netherlands).