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AÇORES EM DANÇA 

Beatriz Oliveira 

Born in São Miguel, an island where wind and sea shape bodies and destinies, she began dancing at the age of 4, guided by teacher Ana Cymbron. She grew up immersed in movement, rhythm, and discipline, completing the Royal Academy of Dance certification at 18. At 15, she crossed oceans to dance in Macau, participating in the 7th International Youth Dance Festival, a moment that profoundly expanded her artistic horizons. At 18, she chose to embrace dance as her path and moved to Lisbon, where she earned her degree from the Escola Superior de Dança. Her journey continued to Tilburg, at Fonty’s Dance Academy, and Amsterdam, at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, where she immersed herself in new languages of creation and presence. Since 2004, she has been exploring movement as a field for healing and research, engaging with various methodologies, including Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering, Yoga, Alexander Technique, and Feldenkrais, across several European countries.

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DANCE

in Faial - Azores

with Beatriz Oliveira

Also known as "Dance Initiation", the main goal of this lesson is the integrative development of the child. For that, the proposals is to create a playful, expressive and creative environment where the child discovers and experience new forms of movement, that develops the motion of their body, with static and dynamic balance, through the methodologies of "Rudolf Laban"

Ballet is a style of dance known for its beauty, lightness, and gracefulness. It is a well-defined discipline and is based on two major principles: en dehors - legs and feet must face outwards - and the "five positions" of the arms and legs that begin and end every step. Contemporary Dance aims to create a space for experimentation and knowledge of the various possibilities of body movement and the discovery of each participant's spontaneous and creative movement. This modality develops the technique (of Ballet and Contemporary Dance), the expressiveness and creativity of each student and promotes the alignment of a correct body posture, muscular strength, flexibility and the ability to improvise, interpret and compose choreographies, developing discipline, motor coordination and elegance.

NIA, in Portuguese means Integrative Neuromuscular Action, created in 1983 by the couple Carlos Rosas and Debbie Rosas, consists of an artobic and therapeutic practice, with very positive results for our health and well-being. The Nia Technique includes a cardiovascular program that mixes movements from Dance (Modern Dance, Jazz and Isadora Duncan), Martial Arts (Tai Chi Chuan, Tae Kwon Do and Aikido) and Therapeutic Arts (Yoga, Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais Technique) . Classes consist of the execution of assembled choreographies, with varying rhythms and intensities, which gradually involve the use of the entire body. They also explore the ability to improvise, strengthening body awareness, awareness and creativity. 

"Ecstatic Dance" is based on free movement and invites us to dance with authenticity, in a very spontaneous way. On the "dance floor" the proposal is not to talk but to surrender to the music, with barefoot, through an inspiring sound journey of various rhythms, which will take us to various places of our own body and our own being.

We begin by warming up the body, calming the mind and energizing our state of presence. The improvisation technique comes in, where we are invited to progressively seek and find a connection with the other through an initial exploration of tools such as: solo improvisation, structured improvisation and contact improvisation, accompanied by live music, which takes us on an inspiring and creative journey. An integral part of the work will be the concepts of group energy, attention to others, spatiality and the exploration of movement. 

How do I insert myself into the scenic space? How do I start a composition? What is my role in the group with which I interact? These are some of the questions we will try to find answers to during each proposal. 

+ INFORMATION 

serdanca.estudio@gmail.com

926 141 759

GIRO DANCE FESTIVAL

GIRO Dance Festival is born in 2021, with the will to shake Faial island and enrich its socio-cultural experience through an interdisciplinary program. The main goal is to cover several aspects of dance, the circulation between different spaces of the island, moving people and consequently different audiences, addressing the relationship of dance with multiple arts such as music, theater, photography and video, including workshops, performances, cinema, exhibitions and installations. 

GIRO DANCE FESTIVAL - PROGRAM OF THE 1ST EDITION

GIRO DANCE FESTIVAL - PROGRAM OF THE 2ND EDITION

GIRO DANCE FESTIVAL - 3RD EDITION

"Daughters of the Water" is a four-day gathering of sensitive experiences inspired by Nature and Water for women from the island and beyond. It is a movement of activism for the waters, stimulating the connection with our own energy and with the energy of nature, using water as the guiding thread of our own Art of Dancing in Life. (Violeta Lapa) Program - Oceans and Flow 1-4 Sep I "Daughters of Water" Meeting 5 Sep I Marina do Mar Concert I 23:00 I Oceanic 6 Sep I Ocean Talks I 18:00 I Casa Manuel de Arriaga This event is produced Oceans and Flow, by Violeta Lapa, and the partnership of the GIRO Dance Festival, by Beatriz Teves Oliveira.

Fotografia - Peregrinus Studio I Oceans and Flow Azores Atlantis 2022

+ info

www.oceansandflow.com

encontrofilhasdaagua.info@gmail.com

girodancefestival@gmail.com

29 May I 21h00 

Performance “Serei uma Barata?”

by Maria João Gouveia 

Faialense Theatre 

Co-organized by 

Giro Dance Festival 
Câmara Municipal da Horta 

Photo - Madalena Correia 

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PROJECT "AZORES IN DANCE"

Supported by "Governo Regional da Cultura - Direcção Regional da Cultura", the Project “Azores in Dance” introduced, from 2009 until 2016, Dance Workshops and Performances in the nine islands of Azores. The principal aim of this project, besides the aim to create a greater link between each island of Azores through Dance, was to extend the practice of this art form through Creative, Contemporary and Improvisation Dance and was aimed at children, young people and adults. 

Each workshop and Performance was organized and taught by Beatriz Oliveira. 

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DANCE IMPROVISATION

When using available resources to develop something new by acting in a immediate and spontaneous way, you could say that it was adopted the technique of improvisation. In improvisation, invented connections are allowed, since this one’s satisfy your aim. Improvisation facilitates action and prints an enormous freedom of choices, some of them unconscious, that emerge from the necessity of execution without limits. Being a very personal act, this technique, applied in Dance, is the result of the widespread mentality in the twentieth century, where freedom of expression tried to find an area of contention, reflected in art, in appreciation of individualism, with the acceptance of different personalities and ways of expression. If the principles of freedom broadcast by choreographers of the twentieth century caused disagreements and conflict of ideas of generations, now seeks to be awake to constant change of forms and styles. In our days experimentation is the watchword for new discoveries and new means. Currently many choreographers use improvisation as a tool for composition using various methods for creating choreographic material, such as Steve Paxton (1939, Los Angeles)and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (1960, Mechelen). In the performances of the Project "Azores in Dance", Beatriz is also using the relationship between composition and improvisation, where a fixed structure and improvisation interact harmoniously, creating a connection between the familiar and unfamiliar material.