KDF professionals
12.07 – 21.07 (27 hours)
Kalamata Municipal Stadium
Edivaldo Ernesto
DEPTH_MOVEMENT
This is an intensive, dense and dynamic group workshop about energy and constantly challenging your limits. Ιt is about pushing those boundaries over and over again and understanding what defines you as a dancer. Allowing the environment to influence your dancing skills, refining tools to create new movement qualities and rhythms. Digging deeper inside the range of your own personal dance vocabulary, becoming anyone or anything. Working with partnering and multi-directional micro-narrative movement to transform as a whole group. Learning how to effectively be unpredictable, how to recycle energy, how to use the body as your primary tool.
Edivaldo’s approach guarantees a new process of study, where he works both as a teacher and guide, aligning with your learning journey, and fully supports you in order to digest the work that will get you to a completely new level.
Edivaldo Ernesto is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, and improvisation expert. Born in Mozambique, currently based in Berlin, he is deeply influenced by his Mozambican background and by West African traditional dance. He has performed numerous times with David Zambrano, and the Sasha Waltz & Guests company as a guest and permanent member. He has collaborated with Linda Kapetanea and RootlessRoot on the duet Half the Truth, with Oscar-winning composer and pianist Volker Bertelmann, also known as Hauschka, on the creation of the project An Encounter of Improvised Music & Dance and with trumpet soloist Marco Blaauw on the project I Can’t Breathe, for which he received the 2020 Best Dancer Award from the jury of the Italian Danza & Danza Awards. Ernesto is the creator and developer of the Depth Movement and Next Level workshops, as well as the solo choreographies Tears, Brace, Access to the Road, and Error. He has taught and performed across Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Asia.