SPRING 2025 INTENSIVE [2]
[ APRIL 21-26 2025 ]
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🇫🇷 SPRING INTENSIVE [ 1 ]
[ APRIL 21-26 ]
📍Micadanses, Paris (Studio Biped)
LEVEL: Open to intermediate and professional dancers.
Minimum age: 15 years old.
This intensive is designed for dancers who are already trained. Prior dance experience is required, though familiarity with Graham Technique or Practice is not mandatory—however, it is welcome.
Monday April 21-Friday 25 (Studio Biped)
10h-11h30 Graham Technique
11h30-12h30 Graham Workshop
15 mins break
12h45-14h Practice (Yuval Pick)
14h-15h Repertoire Yuval Pick
Saturday April 26 (Studio May B)
9h-10h Practice warm up
10h-11h Graham warm up
11h-12h rehearsal
12h-13h public presentation
The guest artists will award several scholarships:
• 1 Scholarship for a Martha Graham School intensive in New York City (Summer Intensive 2025)
• 2 Scholarships for a Graham For Europe event in Paris (e.g. a cross-practice weekend)
GRAHAM TECHNIQUE
"The body is trained, disciplined, honored and, when the time comes, trusted. Movement becomes clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies" (Graham, 2004)
Developed by Martha Graham, a pioneering American dancer and choreographer, this modern dance method is based on the principles of contraction and release of the body. The use of breath enables the body to be fully felt and used in dance.
The session is generally divided into three phases: on the floor, standing and through space. Graham enables dancers, or more broadly anyone with a passion for dance, to explore deep emotions.
Practice (Yuval Pick)
For several years now, Yuval Pick has been developing a method that informs his dance, his pieces and the daily practice of the dancers in his company. It is centred on five fundamental ideas:
• The rotation of the body, placing the body in an imbalance that allows it to modulate and invest space,
• Weight transfer and rebound,
• Movement from the centre to the periphery,
• The ‘space between’ as a space for play,
• Each movement is an action motivated by an intention.
This enables us to broaden our physical and creative potential: the method is both a learning tool and a way of sharing our expressiveness with others through precise exercises and improvisation guided by images.
Repertoire Yuval Pick
Noémie will teach sections of Choreographer Yuval Pick’s latest work “Into the silence”. In this piece, Yuval makes visible the rich and abundant aspect of a dancing body. Inspired by Jean-Sébastien Bach’s Goldberg Variations, he wishes to develop a compositional and sensory approach that responds to the intervals produced by Rosalyn Tureck’s sensitive interpretation.
Classes will focus on exploring the two techniques side by side, to uncover their links, connections and echoes. Workshops will also be offered to explore repertoires of both choreographers who created those innovative dance methods.
FACULTY
Tancredo Tavarez
Born in the Dominican Republic, Tancredo Starts his dance instruction and professional career in 1984, under the tutelage of Eduardo Villanueva. He leaves Santo Domingo in 1988 under a one year full pedagogical scholarship with the school of Ballet Nacional de México (today the Centro de Danza Contemporanea CENADAC, in Querétaro, México); at its term Tancredo is offered a full scholarship at the Martha Graham School, and shortly after is integrated in the Martha Graham Ensemble (today’s Graham 2). In the autumn of 1989 Tancredo is invited to join The Martha Graham Company, where he danced major works of the Graham repertory until an accident late 1993 abruptly interrupted his stage career. Subsequently Tancredo was invited by Diane Gray to integrate the faculty at the Martha Graham School, followed by Denise Jefferson’s invitation to join the faculty at the Alvin Ailey School, where he was also trusted a class for the Actors Studio and another for teenagers at The Professional Performing Arts School-PPAS; Tancredo was also invited in the dance faculty at Lehman College (City University of New York-CUNY).
In 1997 Tancredo moves to France, where he obtains a dispensation for the Diplôme d’etat as a dance Teacher due to his confirmed experience in the field, and is invited into the faculty at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional du Grand Avignon where he taught the Martha Graham Technique until 2003. In 1999, he became a beneficiary of the Certificat d'aptitude option danse contemporaine (Ministère de la Culture Française). In September 2004, he was invited by Maurice Béjart and Michel Gascard to join the teaching faculty of the Ecole-atelier Rudra Béjart, a position he held until 2021.
Presently Tancredo resides in Paris as a freelance Teacher of the Graham Technique and Personal Trainer.
Jean-Baptiste Ferreira
After graduating a bachelor's degree in physical activities and health in 2012, Jean-Baptiste began his formal dance education in Paris, at the IFPRO. He then went on to study at the Martha Graham School and perform Graham classics along with various contemporary works as a member of Graham 2. In his last year of training, he received the Ooi-Meland Award for most promising international student.
Since 2018, Jean-Baptiste has taught Graham technique in Paris at the IFP Rick Odums, the National Conservatory of Music and Dance (CNSMDP), the Paris Boulogne-Billancourt Center of Higher Education for the Arts (PSPBB), CDCN La Briqueterie, Goubé European Dance Center, Institut Stanlowa and Studio DTM, to dancers of various ages, levels, backgrounds and aspirations.
Noémie de Almeida Ferreira
Noémie trained at the Conservatoire de La Rochelle and then joined the Atlantique Ballet Contemporain. From 2016 to 2018, she continued her training by joining the Ballet Junior de Genève (BJG). At the same time, Noémie decided to keep a solo, created at the end of the BJG, and to continue its creation. In October 2018, she joined the CCNR/Yuval Pick as a freelancer for the creation of Vocabulary of need. She became a permanent dancer in May 2019. In addition to performing the company’s entire repertoire, Noémie teaches Yuval Pick’s Practice Method to both professionals and amateurs.
COST OF THE PARIS INTENSIVE [ 1 ]
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LEVEL: Open to intermediate and professional dancers.