CORDE LISSE

Corde Lisse – Skilled/Advanced

12pm – 1.30pm – Week 1
Space B, chandelier 1 – Tutor Gaia Santuccio

In week 1, I will share exercises alongside some short and longer sequences to help you improve and better understand the art of rolling. Roll ups, roll downs, rolling on the spot and entries into S-lock that I have found through my creative research, starting from the ground and moving up.

I would also like to share a methodology called Rope manipulation – speaking knots, that I have developed since my Master studies at DOCH, where the knots become opportunities for new pathways.

My objective is to stretch the technical knowledge we have of our practice through personal experience and spur us into thinking in terms of knots instead of tricks.

Pre-requisites: Participants should be comfortable with inverting straight arms. It is necessary to know at least one way into S-wrap, holding a back balance and have a good level of endurance in the air to deeper explore during the creative investigation. Basic knowledge on C-shaping is advised.

4.15pm – 5.45pm – Week 2
Space B, chandelier 1 – Tutor Gaia Santuccio

In week 2 I’d like to share ‘A dialogue between floor and air’ – a practice borne out of necessity during the pandemic where training at reduced height gave me a new perspective of my practice.

In these sessions, I’ll guide you through some tasks extrapolated from my own research by which opened the doors to a whole new world-way to relate, both physically and mentally, to the apparatus.

Acquiring new tools for research and the dialogue between floor and air are core topics can also help in navigating the gap usually present when we go from the ground to the air.

Pre-requisites: Participants should be comfortable with inverting straight arms. It is necessary to know at least one way into S-wrap, holding a back balance and have a good level of endurance in the air to deeper explore during the creative investigation. Basic knowledge on C-shaping is advised.

Corde Lisse – Improvers and up

Week 1
2.30 – 4pm
Space B, Chandelier 1 – Tutor – Gaia Santuccio

Week 2
2.30 – 4pm
Space D, central ‘mother truss’, closest to stage – Tutor – Gaia Santuccio

Pre requisites: Participants need to be able to climb, invert and know how to do a hip lock. Most especially, it is important to be interested in learning technique through conventional and unconventional approaches, as well as being comfortable with and excited about discovering new pathways.

Technique and tricks are the words of our circus language, words necessary to be able to create. Without this vocabulary, it would be impossible to navigate our apparatus and to make sentences.

This session comprises an introduction to some tricks and short sequences that I have generated and investigated over the years through my creative methods. We’ll break them down and try them on the floor before taking them up into the air, through a progressive process that allows participants to get a better understanding of the movement and the appropriate technique to succeed.

Corde Lisse – Intermediate and up

Week 1
10.15am – 11.45am
Space B, Chandelier 1 – Tutor –Gaia Santuccio

Week 2
12 – 1.30pm
Space E, central ‘mother truss’, closest to main doors – Tutor –Gaia Santuccio

Pre-requisites: Being able to invert and having a basic repertoire on the rope is a must. Most importantly, it is necessary to join with an open mind and a passion for research as we will learn alternative ways of moving with the apparatus and dive into a personal, intimate choreographic exploration.

In these sessions, we’ll look at a variety of tricks and sequences that I have generated and investigated over the years through my creative methods; we’ll break them down, and work through a progressive process that allows participants to gain a deeper understanding of the movement and the appropriate technique to succeed.

Complimenting this work, we will also dip into another area of my research, ‘A dialogue of floor to air’ enabling us to better navigate both our apparatus and the gap usually present when from the ground we go to the air.

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