The artist group of the Fraktalwerk Project Space (Fraktalwerk Projektraum) is pleased to invite you to participate in the dance workshop “Entangelments” under the choreographic direction of Libertad Esmeralda Iocco. The project “Entangelments. Language of Angels. Gestures as mediators between cultures” connects art and cultures and creates meeting spaces for society, art and religion. Our invitation is addressed to all dance enthusiasts from the age of 16. We especially invite interested people to participate who speak and understand sign language – whether deaf or not, with or without dance experience.
What is the dance workshop about?
In the workshop, hearing and deaf people will work together especially in movements and in dancing with gestures, signs and free movements. The “communication” therefore takes place outside the explanation units almost exclusively through mutual observation. It is more about togetherness through joint gestural movement than through communication of knowledge. So it is about a special dance experience, not about learning movements or something similar.
Angels are messengers of daily life who bring information from “unknown worlds”. What do these messages tell us? How can we translate them with our bodies through dance?
The gestures of angels will be explored with reference to sign language and gestures we use every day. We invite you to creatively explore and use gestures while dancing.
Libertad Esmeralda Iocco is an Argentinian dance artist and dance teacher. She has developed choreographies in several projects together with people with and without dance experience. It is important to her to work together in a warm and participatory environment. She strongly believes that from the “non-existence of experience” resources and aesthetic elements can emerge that enrich the poetics of dance and strengthen the knowledge that is present in people. She is interested in getting to know the poetic languages that are hidden in everyday life and that have no technical and systematic designation.