CLASS

# interplay

My professional dance training focuses on sequentiality and use of weight, creating a soft, agile and powerful body. We will be working with floor and  standing material, shifts between outer and inner movement motivator and trajectory as a focus.
My class is very physical and offers a playground to challenge and hopefully surprise ourselves. Movement, be it
floor work or standing material, is approached as directing and streaming an energetic flow, respecting a natural trajectory and alignment. This allows us to be energetic and, as well, to gain speed, if so wished, in the most  enjoyable, efficient, organic as well as healthy way – be it in minimal or expanded movements flying through and  eating the space. As much as I love the clarity of lines, my work is never about creating “shapes”. It focuses on weight and the  stream of breath as generators of movement; on how to utilise these in an ongoing interplay between release,  recovery and a conscious act of directing. In this work we explore ways to activate and fully reconnect to our agile and powerful body.

ABOUT

Andrea Hackl is based in Austria and the Netherlands and works as choreographer, dancer and teacher as well as video artist. Her work cherishes the power and poetry of dance & its physicality & is, most of all, a celebration of life.
She has danced with companies & choreographers like Jasper van Luijk, Cascade Dance Theater, Emanuel Gat Dance, United C, Suzy Blok & Fabian Chyle and toured major venues and festivals world- wide.
She’s inspired by cross-pollination & interdisciplinary work, by seeing how different fields can nourish and enrich one another. Her understanding of dance & movement got formed, enriched and deepened by conventional techniques as much as somatic and sensorial work. Andrea cherishes improvisation in collaboration with musicians and has produced work in collaboration with scientists, mostly addressing the subject of human-nature relationships.
Over the last years, she has produced various films, presented in Europe, US and Asia and has been exploring the
medium of installation and hybrid installation performances.

website: www.andreahackl.com