Summer Intensive course for seniors / Gabriela Aldana

In this senior intensive course that is led by Gabriela Aldana, we examine and strenghten our own unique way of moving and dancing. We will listen to what will move us from within and what invites us to connect to each other and to the world around us. We will let the movement grow into a dance - and maybe into a sound. Everyone is free to express themselves in their own way. The course will move outside from the studio to the nature nearby. We will let the nature give us space to sense and explore ourselves and the surroundings together.

This intensive course will take place outdoors (in case of rain, we will dance in a studio). The first class on 1st of June will begin at Cable Factory and we will move outdoors together. The locations of the next classes will be releaved during the first time. If you are absent, please do not hesitate to contact the course producer Elina. If the class will take place inside, you will be informed about it the evening before.

Gabriela Aldana is a Chilean-born performance artist, choreographer, dancer, sound artist and poet based in Finland. Her artistci work, spanning over 28 years, explores the connection among everything in nature, in the inner nature of the body, in the cellurar and intra-cellural space, in the embodied awareness about lifecycles, which often stand in opposition to the contemporary society's structures.

In Gabriela's work, movement, senses and perception are at the core foundation from where also her work with sound, voice and writing emerge. Her current practice is an ecosomatic movement practice. Through her art, she creates experimental spaces that emphasize ecology, participation, presence, a strong sense of nature, belonging and connection. Gabriela's artistic perspective is also shaped by her life experiences: growing up and coming of age in Chile under dictatorship, migration, motherhood and he work as a teacher and community facilitator.