Sandra Marín Garcia
“Crystal Pite’s Tools & Vocabulary”
August 11 – 15
11.30 – 13.30 H > Professionals, Studio A
14.00 – 16.00 H > All Levels, Studio A
Language EN
Under the direction of internationally renowned Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, Kidd Pivot’s distinct choreographic language – a breadth of movement fusing classical elements and the complexity and freedom of structured improvisation – is marked by a strong theatrical sensibility and a keen sense of wit and invention. The dancer and choreographer Sandra Marín Garcia was a long-time member of the company Kidd Pivot.
Her workshop will consist of an improvisation that will offer Crystal Pite’s tools to be able to access her work and vocabulary when learning fragments of her repertoire. The improvisation will be based on kinesthetics, establishing a dialog between intuition and the intellect. Participants will explore the different possibilities of the body and the relationships that can be established with the surroundings.
In the All Levels class different structures and games will be shared to be able to experience and tap into different sequences from Crystal’s work.
After the guided improvisation, the Professional’s class will lead into learning a fragment of a solo from Crystal Pite that will focus on how the tools introduced can transform into conveying a narrative of the body.
Sandra danced with various companies such as the Polish Dance Theatre, Theater Vorpommern in Greifswald and Stralsund, Theater Dortmund, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Cullberg Ballet, Netherlands Dance Theatre I and Kidd Pivot. During this time, she worked with renowed choreographers such as Johan Inger, Paul Lightfoot, Sol León, Mats Ek, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Marina Mascarell, Jiri Kylián and Crystal Pite. In 2010, she started working as a choreographer and lecturer; since 2022 Sandra has been head of the choreography department at the Conservatori Superior de Dansa of the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona.