Sparrow Dance

VERTICAL DANCE DAYS - COPENHAGEN
summer adition

13 - 14 august 2022

two-day workshops, TALKS, INTERNATIONAL GUESTS, gathering

AFUK SCENE Enghavevej 82B, 2450 København SV, Danmark

on the progrram

Workshop

Saturday & Sunday 10:00 - 16:00
Workshop with Roel Seeber (USA), Bianca Cabrera (USA) and Esther Wrobel (DK/IL)
Price including a common lunch.
Sign up - https://www.afuk.dk/foreninger/hold/
Theme: Surface
Description: This two-day, vertical dance workshop will explore movement through the lens of “surface.” Starting with contact improvisation, we will focus and heighten the awareness and sensitivity of the surfaces of our bodies and the way we contact the surfaces around us. Whether those surfaces are the floor, the wall, the harness or other bodies, we will embark on a playful exploration of the world around us. Using the rope and harness, we will move on the wall on the floor and in partnership with other dancers.

About the artists:
Bianca Cabrera (they/she) is an Oakland,CA based director, performer and educator. Cabrera has directed the dance company Blind Tiger Society since 2012, touring throughout the US. Her two decade performing career includes work with KT Niehoff/LingoDance, Jo Kreiter/Flyaway Productions, Kim Epifano/Epiphany Productions, Ben Levy/LevyDance, among many other artists.

Roel Seeber is an Oakland based dancer and artist who holds an MFA from the University of Washington. For the past thirteen year he has dedicated himself to vertical dance or rope and harness-based dancing primarily with Bay Area vertical dance pioneer BANDALOOP. With BANDALOOP he has toured and performed all over the world including for the 2016 American Music Awards with P!NK

In- between
SYmposium / gathering

Saturday 16:30 - 19:00
(Free entrance)

ON THE PROGRAM
16:30 - 17:00 Arrival / snacks
17:00 - 17:30 Between commercial and Art
Speaker: Ida Frost
Description: How can we combine an artform with a commercial form? And what does it at all mean to be an artform and a commercial form. Is it the money contributor, that defines what is what? Can we and if so how do we stay in and with our craft in the meeting with an already given aesthetic, dramaturgical line or functional requirement.

17:35 - 18:05
Theme: Microgravity - Space travel storytelling towards agency and empathy.
Speaker: Esther Wrobel

Description: In microgravity, Vertical Dance is used to share astronaut like experiences with participating audience. The choreography is considered to be an Action Performance which means that it is - A choreography of a participatory experience where the body and imagination are put into action*. The project is also a study case of cross disciplinary research and art work. We will also discuss, how can a creative discipline become a tool for asking and answering questions? and for meeting other disciplines and artists ?
18:05 -19:00 Bar is open/ Let's hang out and talk
There will be snacks

About the speakers:
Ida Frost is a diverse dancer and physical performer. With a background in gymnastic, she is now working as a professional dancer, performer and acrobat. Her movement interests flow from urban house grooves, to contemporary softness into installation art and acrobatics. No rules, no boxes, just expression, curiosity, humor and the trust of a diverse movement journey in all aspects of life.

Esther Wrobel is a Copenhagen based dancer/ researcher/ choreographer and artistic director of Sparrow Dance. Received the Danish Arts foundation award for outstanding creativity in the performing arts field. Holds an MFA in Dance & Participation Danish National School of Performing Arts. Graduate of the Mathe Asher School of Performing Arts in Gaathon Israel 2001. Vertical Dance has been her primary discipline for creation for the past 12 years.
*MFA THESIS - Tiny Astronaut- Looking for Awe and Wonder finding Curiosity (Esther Wrobel 2021)