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summer | main event
running from the 1st to the 30th of july 2023
© erik elizondo
© dimitri kalaitzidis
b12 summer main event
— // —location: eden***** studios
Erik Elizondo Campos & Dimitri kalaitzidis
los little guys
little loco(motion)
This workshop is open to all types of bodies and experience levels with movement. we will focus on elements of physical investigation, based on the study of movement improvisation, to discover the range and complexity of our physical potential. Starting from a foundational connection to the floor beneath our feet, we will constantly be adding impulses and accumulating complexity through the layering of focus in our body as a means of improvisation. As the body becomes more stimulated and even overwhelmed, the focus will be to transition this energy into playfulness, in order to create new movement patterns, break old habits, and activate specific areas of the body which may be blocked. Once we begin to enter this trip, and we have enough time for each person to find their own rhythm, we will begin to take these structures and add additional levels to coordinate and rethink how to move through space. The goal of this workshop is to offer a different perspective on how to enter into an improvisational practice by challenging the body, the mind, and the connection between the two; how to bring more consciousness, clarity, and variation into the way we mobilise, and how to use this information to continue developing and enjoying our individual research. The workshop is directed towards experimentation and, while we will be guiding and providing tools to take away from the experience, our main aim is that the group feels encouraged to try new things and find pleasure in movement.
please be aware of our early bird special offer for this workshop! you can apply for this offer up until the 24th of march 2023. after the 24th the regular workshop fee applies. applications are accepted up until one day before the workshops starts.
biography / Erik Elizondo Campos
Erik Elizondo is originally from Monterrey, Mexico. He graduated in 2017 from SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, in Austria, with a focus on Contemporary Dance Performance. He began his dance career as a dancer in the company Teoría de Gravedad, directed by Aurora Buensuceso and Ruby Gámez. He later became part of Inside the Body Performing Arts directed by Aladino R. Blanca. His professional experience includes collaborations with Gavin Webber and Grayson Millwood, Beto Pérez, Cinthya Dueñas, Francisco Córdova, Raúl Martinez, João Cidade, Marion Sparber, Michikazu Matsune, Barnaby Booth, and Milla Koistinen. As a part of his performance education, Erik participated in a residency in 2013 with the physical theatre company KiM Kosmos in Movement, directed by Elías Cohen in Olmué, Chile, and was also part of the intensive performance program Smash#4 in 2014 in Berlin, Germany. At the end of 2017, together with Dimitri Kalaitzidis, he founded Los Little Guys; making creations, residencies, classes and workshops in Germany, Mexico, the United States, Canada, Ecuador, Peru, Great Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, India, Malaysia, Austria, Italia, Hungary and Iceland.
biography / Dimitri kalaitzidis
Dimitri Kalaitzidis is originally from Massachusetts, USA. He graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of the Fine Arts, with a focus on Contemporary Dance, where he performed works by Bill T. Jones, Merce Cunningham, Seán Curran and Pamela Pietro. Later Dimitri joined the company The Bodhi Project at SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, where he worked with choreographers Sita Ostheimer, Mala Kline, Rosalba Torres, Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, and Emanuel Gat and toured Europe, Israel and South Africa. Since, Dimitri co-founded Los Little Guys in collaboration with Erik Elizondo. Having created their own scenic work and developed their own movement investigation, they have performed and taught throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia in places such as Dock11, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, b12 Berlin, Gibney Dance, Dansekapellet, Marameo, VERVE of Northern School of Contemporary Dance, A Cielo Abierto, Encuentros Mutantes, Lux Boreal, Iceland Dance Company, SUB.LAB WORKSHOPS, nunArt Guinardó, Nritya Shakti and Circuit-Est Centre Chorégraphique, among others.
company info
los little guys
los little guys is a mexico-usa based project that was founded by erik elizondo and dimitri kalaitzidis in 2017. since their foundation, they have engaged in residencies, created and performed original and collaborative work, and offered classes and workshops throughout north america, europe, and asia. primarily utilising improvisation as a method of movement creation, the motivation behind their work is to continuously find ways to reeducate the body through the interaction between imagination and physical space. the name los little guys was conceived from the desire to always allow playfulness to be a part of their practice. They have had the pleasure of sharing their pedagogic work at places such as Dock 11, SUB.LAB Workshops, Iceland Dance Company, Tripspace, VERVE Northern Contemporary School of Dance, Marameo Berlin, nunArt Guinardó, A Cielo Abierto, Sharing Training Milano, New York University, Gibney Dance, Boston Conservatory, Circuit-Est Centre Chorégraphique, Talleres Al Margen, Encuentros Mutantes, El Entresuelo, and Nritya Shakti.
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