Designed for individuals interested in body arts, this class will explore the parameters that guided the creation of the performance Eu não sou só eu em mim (I’m not just me in myself). The proposal traverses multiple layers — dance, hacking, technique, behavior, and language — investigating choreography as a phenomenon of scattered causality and considering dance as both a behavioral technology and a form of language. Alejandro Ahmed will share the approach of ‘Grupo Cena 11 Cia. de Dança’, based on the idea that shared knowledge is the greatest force for bridging asymmetrical associations. Rooted in collision and confrontation, it fosters knowledge exchange, calls for new skills, and points toward possible futures, promoting a present open to self-recognition through the gaze of others.
Alejandro Ahmed
Alejandro Ahmed is the resident choreographer, artistic director and dancer of ‘Grupo Cena 11 Cia. de Dança’. As a self-educated choreographer, his work developed as an answer to the necessity that he had to integrate his particular views of the world and the dance that he had been experiencing. With Cena 11, Alejandro Ahmed has promoted the development of a technique where the objective is to create dance which focuses on the body, that is, dance where a particular body is better capable to process the ideas contained in the movements. He has termed this technique ‘physical perception’ and it is one of the main structures of his work. His attention focuses on the limits of the body and the possibilities that it can offer towards the transformation of the body of the other.