HIGHER with Michele Rizzo

Did you ever feel the urge to dance in the museum? You can! On March 1^st, Michele Rizzo teaches a dance workshop in the Teijin Auditorium. The participants are guided with very specific focus into simple yet accurate activities such as dancing on the beat, dancing alone and dancing with others attempting to reach a state of flow.

By displacing trance and techno dance from the club environment into the museum, the HIGHER workshop offers the opportunity to experience dance in a hybrid formula between recreational and technical.

Good coordination, stamina, musicality, and curiosity towards techno and trance dancing are required for this workshop. Experience is not obligatory, but sneakers are!

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Michele Rizzo (b. 1984, Italy) is a choreographer and visual artist whose work explores processes of transformation and transcendence. Trained in visual arts as well as dance, Rizzo studied at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, where he often teaches choreography and movement research. He has participated in residencies at the International Choreographic Arts Centre in Amsterdam, Q21 Museum Quarter in Vienna, and Live Works Centrale Fies in Trento. His work has been presented and performed at venues and festivals including URB Festival, Helsinki; Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis; La Briqueterie, Paris; Santarcangelo Festival, Rimini; Short Theater, Rome; Festival DDD, Porto; CAMPO, Ghent; Triennale Teatro dell’Arte, Milan; and Actoral, Montreal.