GN | MC
Guy Nader | Maria Campos
“Partnering – Creation Tools”
August 10 – 14, 2026
14.30 – 16.30 H
Advanced
17.00 – 19.00 H
Professionals
Muffathalle Studios
Zellstraße 4
Studio D
In English
With their Barcelona-based company GN | MC, Guy Nader and Maria Campos have developed their own artistic language, which is both a search for sophisticated physicality and precision in movement. Partnering allows them to explore new ways of approaching relationships between two or more bodies. In doing so, they push the body to its limits in a highly virtuosic way.
This workshop is based on partnering and contact work and the movement vocabulary developed through GN|MC creation’s processes and research. Using different tasks and points of departure that generate movement, participants explore how different bodies work together through complicity.
Participants will study various ways of carrying a partner, giving and receiving weight, finding a shared axis, counterbalance, balance, and moving together in space by using one another. The work focuses on developing trust, attentiveness, and a willingness to take physical risks.
Participants will study partner movement sequences from earlier GN | MC works and create new material through concrete physical tasks. Through observation and exploration of mechanics, the workshop aims to expand pathways and approaches to understanding movement and the body.
Guy Nader and Maria Campos are Lebanese and Spanish artists who have been collaborating since 2006. Their works have been shown at various festivals and venues around the world. GN | MC have been invited as guest choreographers to create for different companies, such as EnKnapGroup in Slovenia, Eva Duda Dance Company / Movein Mission in Hungary, tanzmainz in Germany, and XieXin Dance Theatre in Shanghai, China.
GN | MC were awarded the German theatre prize DER FAUST 2017 for their work FALL SEVEN TIMES, created with tanzmainz at Staatstheater Mainz, and they received the City of Barcelona Prize in 2019. GN | MC have also been awarded three prizes at the XXVIII Premios Max de las Artes Escénicas 2025 for NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS: Best Choreography and Best Female and Male Dancer.