November 13/15: Carla Alcántara
Photo credit: Mauricio Hernández
Class Description:
Movement is a powerful tool to connect with our inner selves and the world around us. This class will start by warming up our bodies deeply from the inside out, awakening our senses through conscious movement, conditioning, and alignment. We will use rhythm as an important part of our investigation while we discover endless possibilities of expression within our bodies. We will explore the vertical and horizontal planes through mindful transitions using levels as an important tool for our dynamic bodies. We will use the floor to swing, pull, slide, anchor, turn, suspend and invert through guided phrases that allow us to explore our tridimensional bodies and through an inspiring group connection experience.
Carla Alcántara is a Mexican dance and visual artist, emerging choreographer, and educator. Born and raised in Mexico City and moved to Vancouver on the ancestral unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples in 2021. Director of TEMPO Dance & Visual Art, a company that collaborates by project with different artists. She holds a bachelor in Communications Science from Universidad del Valle de México and was an exchange student at Santa Fe University of Art and Design, New Mexico (USA). Graduated from the Center of Dance and Scene Production of Baja California, a program funded by the contemporary dance company “Lux Boreal” with whom she stayed as a resident dancer and photographer for three more years.
Carla has performed and collaborated with companies like “Lux Boreal” (Tijuana), “8 Proyecto GATO” (Mexico City), "La Silla Danza" (Tijuana), “ARCOS Dance (Austin, TX), "Nohbords" (Mexico City), and in festivals like “Without Walls” (San Diego, Ca), SIBU International Dance Festival (Malaysia), “Cuerpo al Descubierto” (Mexico City), "Trolley Dances"/ San Diego Dance Theatre, “Cuerpos en Tránsito” (Tijuana), among others.
Her passion for teaching has let her share her practice with people of all ages for over eight years, guiding students through technique and imaginative and creative pathways to develop their artistic selves. Nowadays, she gratefully teaches at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Vancouver Beauty Dance World, and occasional workshops.