Contact Improvisation dancer, facilitator, performer, and independent artist with background in somatics, Contact Improvisation, creative writing, and various improvisation methods studied across the globe. Adrianna graduated with a Dance and Culture degree from University of Surrey, UK and Next Choreography course at Siobhan Davies Studios, UK, and is a certified DanceAbility teacher.
With her work Adrianna traveled, performed, and shared with many diverse audiences in India, Thailand, Romania, Poland, Moldova, United Kingdom, Singapore, India, and more. Examples of some of the collaborations include: Stopgap Dance Company (2013-2015), Candoco Dance Company (2016), Curba de Cultura (2018), Swaraj University (2020), Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (2021), Moksha Contemporary Dance School (2021), Contact Improvisation Residency and CI@50 Conference in Oberlin, Ohio (2022).
Adrianna is interested in embracing artistic practices from different cultures into a creative process, and looking at the trans-disciplinary potential when working with text, image, sound, and movement. With her work she aims to develop a better understanding of an artistic ensemble as interdependent on the exchange of attention, perception, judgment, and decision-making of its members. She is also curious about working with instant composition in performances and pushing the boundaries of spectator-performer relationship through participatory and experiential pieces.
Contact Improvisation Festival - Classes
Polarities of dance
Starting from the practice of skills that safeguard the body in landing, bearing weight, and organizing the structure in transitions, we will collectively research ideas of playful challenging of each other to create surprising situations that train alert, focused attention and responsive bodies. We will build and deconstruct movement patterns in order to continuously enrich and enliven the spirit of improvisation. Through the qualities of recoiling and re-bouncing we will generate plasticity in the body and simultaneously allow the exploration of surprise, redirecting, unpredictability of upper and lower dancer, alive and unrehearsed movement while dancing with others.
Inspired by the principles of Contact Improvisation and Capoeira.
These sessions are suitable both for beginners and for experienced practitioners, who wish to experiment and develop their practice.