Workshop contemporary dance

ZOO
Workshop
Gabriella Maiorino

“There is a very specific smell in zoos. It’s scandalous and it makes you suffer. With ZOO we celebratethe predominance of instinct and magic on the phenomenon we are able to understand and classify withappropriate categories and unambiguous words.
The animal or our “wild side”, is seen as an insult, the monster that appears in places where we don’texpect it to be, or as perfection, in the form of the mythical animal - beautiful, proud, noble and powerful(the inverse of the dirty beast), that is linked to superior forces or gods, in a relationship that we can only witness from our compromised point of view as humans.
We also dwell upon the base elements in an animal’s panorama, on the ones living, moving and crawlingin the ground; the ones we trample, mutilate, torture, violate and rape due to our infinite fear of them, orfear of us mirroring them.”

15th and 16th March 2008
DWA studios
14.00 to 19.00 (20 min. break)
70€ for two days
40€ for one day.
Open to dancers of all levels

If you would like to join please contact Cristina Leitão at
workshopgabriellamaiorino@gmail.com

For more information about ZOO check www.danswerkplaats.nl or www.myspace.com/gabriellamaiorino