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b12 summer main event
— // —location: eden***** studios
laura beschi & alessio scandale
betweenus partnering practice
Betweenus partnering practice
We begin with a partner warm-up, where we actively engage with our partner’s body to create space and mobility. By exploring and understanding weight and structure, we learn how to connect IN A body/body relation and discover the most functional ways to interact. Next, we move into a more active training phase, designed to strengthen the body’s structure and prepare it for dynamic movements and lifts. The goal is to build a solid physical foundation, allowing participants to approach the following steps with greater confidence and ease. We then incorporate playful games to heighten attention, adaptability and intuition. To boost creativity, we explore improvisational tasks that sharpen listening skills and encourage expressive freedom. We dedicate time to learning technical elements from various disciplines such as contact, partnering, martial arts and acrobatics. These elements are broken down step by step and adapted to different levels of experience, allowing participants to develop effective strategies for collaborating with a variety of partners. Throughout the workshop, we encourage participants to switch partners, as working with diverse bodies becomes a powerful source of growth and enrichment. Finally, we focus on learning a duet that integrates everything practiced during the workshop.
the description reflects an artist’s idea which was developed at the time it was submitted to b12. it may have changed by the time the workshop or the performance project is starting. please stay flexible. thank you!
biography / laura beschi
Laura Beschi is an Italian artist based in Berlin. She developed an early passion for the performing arts and graduated from SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) in 2017. Since then, she has collaborated with renowned international artists and companies, such as Michikazu Matsune, Anna Katalin Nemeth, Tanz Company Gervasi, Roman Baca, and Nicola Galli Performing Arts. Until the end of 2024, she was an established member of the Berlin-based company Cie. Toula Limnaios, where she created and performed numerous works. Her career has taken her across Europe, North, Central, and South America, the Middle East, and Russia. Beyond performing, Laura is deeply invested in artistic exchange and research. She co-founded BetweenUS partnering practice alongside Alessio Scandale and developed her personal practice, Sparkling Bodies, which explores the depth and dynamism of movement.
biography / alessio scandale
Alessio Scandale is an Italian dance artist born in Varese, he graduated in 2016 from the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) Austria. Since then, he has been deeply engaged in the exploration of movement and partnering dynamics through the BetweenUs project, which he co-created with Laura Beschi. He has performed with notable artists and companies, including Ariella Vidach AIEP (Italy), Daniele Ninarello (Italy), Zsuzsa Rozsavolgyi (Hungary), cie. Willi Dorner (Austria), Alix Eynaudi (Austria), The Loose Collective (Austria), and Tanz Company Gervasi (Austria). In 2018, he relocated to Berlin, joining cie. toula limnaios as a permanent member until 2023. He created and restaged several works, which toured in Germany, Italy, Greece, Finland, Georgia, Jordan, Chile, Canada, Panama and Nicaragua. In 2024 he started collaborating with Sasha Waltz & Guests.
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BETWEENUS
Dancing together can be a magical experience where everything flows spontaneously and the connection is so deep that it feels like reading each other’s thoughts. BetweenUs is the space created when dancing together, where the priority is to express confidence, listening, and respect so that each person feels comfortable and able to give their best. When the BetweenUs connection is strong, dancing together becomes more fun, easier, and more fulfilling, leading to better results. The practice is intense and energetic, ranging from studying partnering and contact elements to exercises for strengthening and mobility for expanding awareness and movement quality. Improvisation will be the tool for developing listening, intuition, communication and creativity. Additionally, learning stimulating duets will provide an opportunity to have fun and put the experienced knowledge into practice. The focus will always be on the quality of interaction, creating an harmonious connection with the partner, valuing each person’s uniqueness and encouraging the use of feedback as a tool for mutual growth. The goal of this practice is to enhance awareness, listening, and technical skills, in order to gain more confidence in dancing together.
please be aware of our early bird special offer for this workshop! you can apply for this offer up until the 24th of march 2025. after the 24th the regular workshop fee applies. applications are accepted up until one day before the workshops starts.
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