Modern V

photo by Martin GAvica

This class is about pursuing the knowledge of our relationship with the floor, based on the training technique developed by the Colombian artist, Vladimir Rodriguez and his company "Cortocinesis". We will explore the infinite possibilities of movement throughout the floor and understand many principles like inertia, centrifugal and centripetal energy, expansion, suspension, strength, resistance and circularity, all of which will sustain and generate new skills and abilities for moving, sliding, turning, jumping and falling in the floor in almost any direction and using almost any part of our body. We will aim for a continuity and a sustained muscular and skeletal consciousness in order to learn how we can transfer, gather and spread our weight anywhere in our body, how the mechanics of each muscle and bone work, and how all our body parts can cooperate to move more efficiently, safely and smoothly.

Omar Carrum is a founding member of the internationally touring dance company, Delfos Danza Contemporánea, where he continues to serve as a choreographer, dancer and teacher. He has been a featured performer in over 60 works of dance, theater and opera, working with an international roster of choreographers performing in some of the world’s most prestigious theaters and festivals for dance. In 2000 he was awarded as the Best Male Dancer at the 21st Annual INBA-UAM International Choreographic Competition. As a dancer, he has been the recipient of the FONCA grant (National Fund for Culture and Art in Mexico) in 1995 and 2001, and the FOECA grant (State Fund for Culture and Art in Mexico) for artistic development in 2001. In 2009 he became recipient of a 3-year FONCA “Scenic creators with trajectory.” In 2009 he became the first Mexican choreographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship to develop his project Armoire for hate, fragility and uncertainty. In 1998 he co-founded, with Claudia Lavista and Victor Manuel Ruiz (Artistic Directors of Delfos), La Escuela Profesional de Danza de Mazatlán, which has emerged as one of the leading dance conservatories in Mexico and Latin America.