Somatic Sabor with Marina Magalhães
Sunday, February 12 & 19
1:00-3:30 PM
Stomping Ground LA. 5453 Alhambra Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90032
Sliding Scale: $15-30/class
Note-- your registration is only confirmed upon receipt of payment. There are limited spots and registration is on a first-come first-served basis.
If you have any questions, please email Hannah at hannah.h.joo@gmail.com.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Somatic Sabor is a brand-new dance workshop from seasoned dance-maker, Marina Magalhães, that revels in the intersections between modern/post-modern dance and social dances of the Latin & African diasporas. Threaded by elemental principles--rootedness (earth), fluidity (water), breath (air), and rhythm (fire)--these dance traditions are brought together harmoniously and playfully, allowing dancers to experience new and exciting possibilities for movement in their bodies. Where somatics meets sabor, ritmo meets floorwork, and rigor meets play... meet us there!
Please note--this is an intermediate/advanced-level dance class and prior dance experience (especially in modern/post-modern styles) is highly encouraged.
ABOUT MARINA
Marina Magalhães is a border-crosser, bridge-builder, and dance-maker from Brazil living on unceded Tongva land, currently known as Los Ángeles. Her choreography has been called, “stirring... hypnotic,” by the LA Times and, “riveting... a physical and emotional feat,” by South Africa’s Creative Feel Magazine. Magalhães is a recipient of grant awards from Creative Capital, MAP Fund, Doris Duke Foundation, California Arts Council, as well as the LA Weekly Theater Award for Best Choreography. She has shared her work at The Ford Amphitheater in LA, Bowery Ballroom in NYC, CounterPulse in San Francisco, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin, Centre Chorégraphique National in Montpellier, The Wits Theatre in Johannesburg, and nightclubs and living rooms around the world. As a performing artist, she has worked long-term with CONTRA-TIEMPO and Viver Brasil dance companies, and has been a featured guest artist in works by Maria Bauman, Bessie Award-winning choreographers Joya Powell and Marjani Forté-Saunders, and the legendary Bill T. Jones. As a community-rooted teaching artist, she has led countless pedagogic initiatives dedicated to sharing dance as a tool for healing justice—most notably, the beloved former Dancing Diaspora platform. As an academic-interventionist, she has taught at UCLA, UC Riverside, Cal Poly Pomona, and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Scripps College. Magalhães holds a B.A. degree from UCLA’s Department of World Arts & Cultures/Dance and an M.F.A. degree in Dance from University of the Arts. For more info, follow @marinamagalicious on IG.