ProfitrainingJorge Bascuñan

1. Could you tell us what you mean by floor work? Are we working with set material or phrases on the floor?

I will use the floorwork in different scenarios: phrases on the floor and also as a start point of a guided improvisation, leading us to explore the space in different levels.

2. Could you tell us what skills for professional dance / performance we are practicing in the class? Maybe this relates to what you mean by available body?

An Available Body means that we can be moved by feelings and emotions that could guide our dance, and we can be open to play with those materials in different dynamics and complex constellations. I often start the class with simple tasks and ideas that could be initiated through physicality (e.g pushing and pulling ormodulations of those) or emotional states (e.g “a wake up” quality of movement). I will add layers and tasks to build up complex systems. Each participant will decide the level of complexity they engage with. 

Jorge Bascuñan is a Brazilian Multidisciplinary Artist, Teacher, and Choreographer, currently based in Berlin. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Physical Education, and he is certificated in Cinematography and Actor’s Direction both at his hometown, São Paulo. Since 2012 he is co-director of the ‘Baillistas Collective ’of Photography and Multi-art, and director of Ìdrima, a collective of performance and contemporary art. In 2016 he moved to Germany where he concluded the master’s program in contemporary dance education (MA CoDE, HfMDK, Germany).
His dance training includes floor work, martial arts, contact improvisation, and dance theater. Bascuñan reveals his multidisciplinary experiments, mixing photography, video, drawing, sounds, and text with research on movement, questioning the meaning of a socially constructed body, focusing on translations of somatic practices, seeking to re-signify symbolic aspects of a contemporary corporeality.