Thursday 17 December, 17:45

Gaga Dance Workshop

Mermoz Melchior, a dancer of the Batsheva Dance Company, leads a Gaga dance workshop introducing Ohad Naharin’s movement language. The session explores body listening, sensation, imagination and the pleasure of moving, inviting participants of all levels to investigate mobility, energy, presence and spatial relationships. In resonance with the pulses and rhythms of the Kósmos! programme, the workshop offers a direct, intuitive way to inhabit Mediterranean and Near Eastern musical material through inner impulse and corporeal vibration.

In French.

Avenue de Miremont 46,
1206 Genève
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