Level: Dancer/ Advanced mover

We start the class by opening channels of awareness and connecting to our partner by manipulating, testing and speculating with his/her structure and weight. We like to focus on an organic way of partnering, based on action/reaction principles inspired by contact improvisation and fighting styles. Another important aspect of our class is the constant change of the level of activity for both roles. We learn how much resistance, power and direction is needed to reach our maximum together by investigating with the given tools, and finally learning fixed partnering material at the end of each class.

Marion Sparber comes from South Tyrol, Italy, and has completed her professional dance training at the Iwanson and Varium school. For 15 years she has worked in Italy, Spain, Russia, Costa Rica, Switzerland, Greece, Poland, Portugal, the USA, Guatemala and Germany as a dance teacher, choreographer and dancer. Marion gained stage experience in the ensembles that followed: Physical Momentum, ADN-Dialect, Stella Zannou, Sonia Rodriguez and Wee-Dance Company.

Alan Fuentes-Guerra is a Mexican dancer and teacher. He trained at EPDM and SEAD. There he was part of the company 'Bodhi Project', which toured with some pieces nationally and internationally. He has worked on choreographies with Sita Ostheimer, Etienne Gilloteau, Cecilia Lugo, Miguel Mancilla, Francisco Córdova, and Marion Sparber. He has performed and taught throughout Europe and North America. His last debut is the play 'Myth' by Karolin Stächele in Freiburg.