Nina Dipla conducts the workshop by her original method which has been developed from Pina Bausch’s. Lying on the floor, you simply listen to the voice of your body by searching the center of the body and gravity in silence. Then you will move on your feet engaging in the space by being truthful to yourself without disturbing others. Developing your movement faster and faster, you finally try to transcend the limits of your body and mind. Nina leads you to concentrate on the center of gravity, energy, respiration and the quality of the movement. It’ s important to use the space fully and search for smoothness and harmony.

Parfois je tombe dans les mers,
vague furieuse je déborde
je tombe aux mains des ignorants
qui m’ achètent à bas prix
Parfois je monte vers les cieux
et je deviens la roue du destin
Parfois je m’ enfle avec la lune,
parfois je tourne avec le soleil
(Omission)
Parfois océan, parfois lac,
Parfois sultan, parfois esclave,
Parfois printemps, parfois rose
de main en main je m’ effeuille
Il n’ y a ni relais ni halte, ni corps ni être
humain
À part Dieu en somme, il n’ y a rien
alors dites-moi ou je tourne ?

E.Roumi

Nina Dipla was born in Thessalonique,Greece. She studied at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, where she received her diploma in 1993. She became a member of the Folkwang Tanz Studio (FTS) where she danced for, among others, Pina Bausch in the Right of Spring. Since 1999 she has collaborated as an interpreter for multiple choreographers, composers, and scenographers. She was an assistant to the Tanz Wuppertaler Theater (Pina Bausch) for the reprisal of Tannhäuser. Nina currently lives in Paris teaching contemporary dance and gives stages in France as well as abroad (Germany, Greece, Slovania). She is in collaboration with the Ateliers de Paris at the Cartoucherie as well as Josef Nadj since May 2008 (choreographic stages with AFDAS).

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