Profitraining Laura Ahumada García

Grounded Acrobatics
This class will explore the principals of gravity, groundedness, and flow, while moving us through acrobatic elements. Inspired by Flying Low, we will use spirals to move in and out of the floor, while contracting and expanding the whole body or different parts of it in order to create smooth pathways. Using our experience with Release Techniques, we will approach acrobatic elements like lifts, balances, handstands and aerial jumps, to introduce dynamics and risk taking, while also working with gravity, momentum, and falling to aid in our exploration of flow.

Q&A

Questions from TPRM:

What makes this class a training for dance professionals? The training is created for dancers who have done similar practices and for those who are comfortable being in a physical and dynamic class.

Is this an improvisation class, a class where we learn phrases, or both? The class invites dancers to explore a wider range of movements and expression while emphasizing strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Dancers are able to find their own fluidity in their movements through improvisation tasks and set material.

Biography

South American Performer, Improviser, Inter-arts Collaborator, Site-Specific Artist and Educator currently completing her Master's (MACoDE) in Frankfurt. A 2019 graduate of London Contemporary Dance School Laura has worked with Divadlo Studio Tanca, Martin Kilvady, Milan Tomasik, Stanislav Dobák (Ultima Vez) Lívia Méndez Marín Balážová (Ultima Vez), Peter Mika, Stanislava Vlčeková, to name a few. In 2021 she completed the 5 weeks training of Flying Low & Passing Through with David Zambrano. Her dedication for teaching, dancing and performing comes from her silliness, spontaneity, absurdity, simplicity, latin fire and finding togetherness in dance. Teaching dance professionals since 2019, she offers regular classes and/or workshops at unlearning festival/Ponderosa (Stolzenhagen), Urbanraum (Berlin), POP! Ponderosa Off Spring Program, Flow Berlin, Sala Piso Tres (Santiago de Chile) and London Contemporary Dance School (London).