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On this creative practice, choreographer Ana Pi invites 20 young dancers (18 years and older) to experiment the tonicity of joy as a tool for new dances and imaginaries. Drawing from her recent group piece ATOMIC JOY (2025), the participants will be in touch with poetic choreographic guidelines, attitude and physical vocabulary of this work.
Through playful and rigorous exercises of rhythm, presence, tension and listening, the dancers will be lead to create and connect new and unseen images. Between radical autonomy and collective choreography « Joy is not a metaphor » focuses on the power of memory and disobedience, in order to amplify together a repertoire of freedom as we move. This workshop offers a glimpse from Ana Pi's research « CORPO FIRME : peripheral dances, sacred gesture » on Transatlantic African Diaspora traditions of movement and meaning.
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Some experience in urban dance preferred.
