KONSTANTINOS GERARDOS
Contact Improvisation
“Weightless body”

1st Week – 2 hours/day
17:00 – 19:00

This workshop will explore the ways and strategies through which we can share our weight with our partner.
Using the architectural structure of our body and the dynamic that develops between the two bodies in contact, we will discover the ways through which we can lift and carry our partner in space during the dance.

- How can I offer my weight without becoming a burden?
- How can I absorb thrust moments created by the momentum developed by the bodies in motion particularly during a lift?
- What is the safest way for landing and how the body is organized during the fall?

Questions to be explore during the workshop "WEIGHTLESS BODY"

Konstantinos Gerardos

He was born at Halkida Evia and studied dance in Athens at the State School of Dance. He graduated from the Professional School of dance of the Municipality of Stavroupoli in Thessaloniki. He has worked with many choreographers both in Athens and Thessaloniki, as a member of the dance theater of NTNG.
Founder of VIS MOTRIX dance company he is artistic director and main choreographer of the company. He has collaborated with NTNG, the National Theatre as choreographer and has directed theater plays.
Since 2004 vis motrix dance comany has its own studio in Thessaloniki, VIS MOTRIX PERFORMANCE STUDIO, for dance classes and dance and theatre performances. The last 17 years he is dancing and teaching Contact Improvisation both in Greece and abroad.
"Through this dance I found out how to learn and discover all over again the dance."