Alessandro Rivellino

Brazil

巴 西

Where is the intersection of dreamland and awaken realm at this big reality called Dream?

Alessandro Rivellino?

What to say?

I have been living dance and contact improvisation in a surrendered way as a dancer for 20 years (if i do not count my childhood) and as a teacher for 15, and I had the opportunity to travel to at least 30 different countries, offering classes, intensive courses, workshops, residencies and Jams with different and experienced colleagues and at many festivals, what probably gave me a good "floor" to start with 'not knowing with certain quality' ...

I come from different dance schools at the somatic level and movement research, today I see that I have danced and taught a great part of my life and yet I feel that, in a way, I have just started.

In my practice I have been integrating various techniques and bringing the potential of dance to life.

If I ask myself between my name and my body, the second one is the dearest, and if you ask about my deepest interest in dancing and teaching the answer would be around living questions related to dance itself, to the space before and beyond words, to time, to presence and to the Big Mystery.

Nowadays the ongoing projects I am engaged as organizer and passionate about are the Silent Contact Retreat in Norway and the Contact Improvisation Meeting in the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Peru.

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I hope through this illusion of you and I being separated, we can drop it, and go beyond our hanging names to explore the in-between field of existence to dance and be danced with and through the visible and invisible forces entangled at each single moment and find the way to be at the arch of beauty.

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For this special project my aim is that the practice of Contact Improvisation can be practiced, and the learning can happen kinesthetically, sinestesycally, the spirit is the body, and the dance happens in presence without speaking. I am that music is never part of a contact Improvisation container, because of the agency in the depths of the nervous system and muscles.

Photography courtesy of Alexandra Wuzyk