Workshop "Exploring Body Awareness with Sensory Stimuli (Smell, Taste and Touch)"
November 3, 9am-1pm.
(facilitated by BA in Drama and Specialist in Stage Direction, Beatriz Afonso Santos)
The workshop invites to explore different expressive possibilities using corporal awareness exercises and physical theater techniques. It is an introduction to different tools for creating artistic manifestations using sensory stimuli and it approaches possible ways to create links with the public through smell, taste and touch (avoiding to focus only on the sight and hearing). The workshop will be divided into two parts: 1- Exercises to connect with the body and to recognize the space and the others. 2- Exercises to develop the body language using sensory stimuli (there will be individual, couple and group improvisations)
Workshops registration:
(Please, notice the registrations formularies are in Portuguese and the whole event will be conducted in Portuguese. If you want to register for a workshop and need help with translation, please, send us and email to festivalellas@gmail.com )
Each workshop costs R$40,00, and there is a promotional value of R$100,00 for the three workshops.
ELLAS gives the opportunity to 4 local women artist in a vulnerable economic situation to participate in the workshops without paying the registration fee, but, in exchange, we ask some help with the logistic during the days of the event.**
Workshop “Knowing my body”- feminist Self Defence-:
November 4, 9am-1pm
(Facilitated by Lauren Souza (Brazil) Bachelor in Physical Education by Unicamp and master in Education by UFSCar)
This workshop intends to provide a safe space to reflect and experience our body and our movement under the bias of female self-defense. Understanding self-defense is much more than knowing how to execute a fighting movement, it is an invitation to think about our relationship with our body, with our self-esteem and self-confidence. A simple change of posture and in the way we look at other can give us a state of alertness and security as we walk down the street, at any time we want and wearing whatever we feel like wearing. The workshop also introduces some techniques of short and long-distance fighting in order to think about different situations of danger. Emphasizing that all of us, regardless of body strength or movement dexterity, can have strategies to defend ourselves or escape from a situation of danger.
Workshop: Angola: Capoeira’s Mother
November 4, 3pm -6 pm
(Facilitated by Gabriela Pardim Capoeria trainer in Escola de Capoeira Angola Resistência)
Capoeira is a fight for freedom. Its origin shows that where there are forms of oppression, there must be people generating new values to transform social behaviors, and fighting for the respect of different individualities.
In this sense, women are trying to fight gender distinctions. Thus, the women in Capoeira have been opening the feminist debate, because they are clashing daily with values built on foundations of masculinized relation.
Capoeira Angola is a rich blend of several elements: music conducts the ritual, dance is part of a game, the game is a performance that camouflages the fight, spirituality ensures the balance of the particulars, ethics express how we understand the world, the martial art is lightness, and all these pieces together create the wheel of life and Capoeira. The workshop will introduce us to some Capoeira movements and musicality, followed by a discussion about the sensations experienced in our bodies.
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Gabriela Pardim (Brazil) Gabriela has been practicing Caporira for 20 years and currently she is a Trenel (trainer degree) part of the Escola de Capoeira Angola Resistência (Capoeira Angola Resistance School, under Mestre Topete guidance). In 2008, she produced the event "Encontro de Mulheres" (woman encounter) reuniting the women of the Capoeira Angola Resistance School to promote politically the theme "Women and Capoeira", the event had workshops, talks and debates. She is part of the "Group of Dances" -Traditional dances- Maculelê, Dança Guerreira, Dança do Fogo, Samba de Roda and Puxada de Rede. Between 2009 and 2014, she joined the Urucungos, Puitas and Quijengues Popular Theater and Dance Group, a group focused on popular artistic manifestations from São Paulo and Pernambuco. Between 2010 and 2012, she was part of the Berimbaus Orchestra Navio Negreiro. In 2012, she promotes the Project Itinerários do Saber Musical (Music) - Institute of Arts - UNICAMP. Between 2014 and 2016, she held as deputy position inside the Material Heritage Department of the Council of Culture of the city of Hortolândia / SP. In January / 2017, she starts sharing her work of Capoeira Angola in the Espaço Garatuja Terrace and joins the Collective "As Mina que Faz", getting in charge of the production of fairs, workshops and festivals.
Beatriz Afonso (Caracas-Venezuela) Director and actress. Bachelor in Dram and Specialist in Theater Direction from ESADT-University of Kent (England - Madrid). Co-founder of the group Áncora Teatro in Spain (2007) and the group 3 Estaciones (Spain-Australia 2011). In 2014 she began the research and creation of the solo "Theater Recipes" (sensorial theater) that she developed between Spain, Brazil and Venezuela. She has worked as a performer, teacher and director in Venezuela, Spain, Brazil, Australia, Canada and Mexico. She has completed her training in Europe and Latin America with courses focused on physical theater (Clown, anthropology of the movement, Comedia dell Arte, neutral mask, intervention-performance, Schinca technique of body expression, body mimesis and object dynamics, Suzuki method). She focuses her research on different lines of body awareness and expressivity and in the relationship between femininity and masculinity in women. She facilitates workshops of body language-stage creation focused on sensory stimuli. She also works as a creative writer and content editor.
Lauren Souza (Brazil) Bachelor in Physical Education by Unicamp and master in Education by UFSCar. When she was seven years old, she started training Judo, and became a federated competitor until college. She has also trained other fights like Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai, Boxing and Capoeira. She currently works as a judo teacher for children in Preschool-Primary School and works as a masseuse.