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Roller-Coaster" has been a creative style & aesthetics to make from the body sensations a dance, performance, or any creative work.
This work was developed from MFA Creative Practice from Trinity Laban Conservatoire.
Below you can find the Roller-Coaster timeline (from elder to now) since its foundation.
Julia Testas
ROLLER COASTER:
A WORKSHOP ABOUT MAKING PROCESS
May 2021 - @interculturalroots
This event will present to you the Dissolving Technique: a somatic dance and work methodology developed by Julia Testas during her MFA studies at Trinity Laban. Dissolving is a sum of practices that Julia has structured in order to disintegrate the belief that the mind is split from the body. It envisions the integration of the self-using breath combined with a series of energetic exercises as a tool for activating deep relaxation and creativity. You will be invited to experience this praxis and dive into the creative process of Julia Testas in the making of her artistic work.
After the Dissolving Workshop, Julia will be showing her most recent piece of work, the "Roller Coaster" short film, devised by herself and produced by Catharina Conte. The performance presents a poetic collage of images that portrays the velocity of life and the inner sensations it evokes.
On the final part of this workshop, the participants will be encouraged to devise their own material using the Dissolving Technique as a path to the creation and presentation of a scratch piece to one other. They will be provoked by the film's main theme and inspired to take a journey inside of one’s body-mind where life often goes faster than we can handle.
Take-away Benefits:
- Gain awareness of your body and its somatic processes
- Boost your creativity through the breath
- Experience the integration of body-mind
- Enhance the connection with your inner sensations
- Get inspired and devise your own artistic material
- Improve your energy levels and strengthen your immune system
ROLLER COASTER:
AN HURRICANE EXPERIENCE
March 2021 - @latinxfestival
Choreographing Roller-Coaster to tell someone else history through images and sensations:
Act 1 Re-editing from previous film from November
Act 2 Starring Catharina Conte as "hurricane" from 4 months creation process in distance
ROLLER COASTER:
A SHORT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT EXPERIENCINGÂ THE PAST
December 2020 - Intercultural Roots Festival
ROLLER COASTER:
AN ADVENTURE FOR TIMES LIKE THESE
November 2020 - The Actors Centre
ROLLER-COASTER:
INSTALLATION + PERFORMANCE
July 2019 - Trinity Laban
The performance was based in the work of Dissolving, experienced and gathered during the MFA Creative Practice at Trinity Laban in Laurie Grove theatre.