Margherita is a professional dancer, choreographer and a qualified Gyrotonic Expansion System® and Pilates teacher. Formed as dancer at the Folkwang Hochschule, Essen and Limon Company, New York and graduated in choreography at D.A.M.S., Bologna University whit a retrospective of Jose Limon.She has been dancing for more than ten years with several dance companies in Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands and the United States.
Currently she is living in Amsterdam working as teacher and choreographer. In 2005 Margherita open her company of Pilates and Gyrotonic and she has been teaching apparatures and pilates mat in her two studios in Amsterdam. From 2007 together with an international team, she developed a three dimensional methodology call KinetiCode®, specially develops for improve abilities of dancers and athletes.
Her modern dance class focuses on fusing a classical modern dance and discovering the expressions behind a vocabulary of movement. Begin with floor and strengthening techniques, and then learn techniques of modern dance styles taken from Limon, Pina Bausch dancetheater with Margherita's personal style added. Learn how to improve your technique and choreography skills, moving organically in relation with the centre, though a flowing and challenging not-stop energy.
“I wanted to express something that I couldn’t express with words at all. Something I have to say urgently, but not verbally. These are feelings, or questions, I never have an answer. I’m dealing with something that we all sense, that occupies all of us in a similar language.” (P. Bausch,2004)
NIEUWE LES op Dinsdag va 27 sept 2011 20.30-22.00 uur: Contemporary Ballet int.
The class is dynamic, fluid, focusing on musicality, body movement & structure.
It is ideal for contemporary, modern dancers that want to improve technique skills.
The contemporary ballet class re-evaluates principles of classical technique, focusing on strengthening the dancer’s awareness of his or her own natural alignment.
The class is divided into two parts: the barre and the centre.
Exercises at the barre emphasize on isolating and releasing the joints in order to strengthen the dancer's centre and support proper body placement.
Body placement becomes functional and fluid, rather than stiff and held, making movement more natural.
The second half of the class, developed in the centre, continually challenges the dancer to use the placement and release discovered at the barre as a source of strength and individual dynamics.
Training in the centre guide the dancer to move with a greater sense of freedom and expression to use momentum, finding a logic and flow in a sequence, realising tensions, enjoying shift of weight, motivation and awareness. The dancer will gains a stronger sense of confidence to take space and go beyond technique.