Public Moves: Yoga Ballet
with Franca Pagliassotto

Mon 21.07., 17.00h l MQ Forecourt l Free entry

Franca, who worked for many years very closely with Ismael Ivo, teaches Yoga Ballet, a technique developed by Marcia Haydée. It is very useful for stretching, balance, concentration and body energy. Each exercise is linked to the breathing and focuses on the spine and the activation of muscular fibres.

Please bring your yoga mat or a towel if you can.

Public Moves dance classes take place outdoors every day – international and local instructors share their knowledge of everything from jazz and Bollywood dance to waacking in free outdoor classes. No previous experience is necessary, and all ages and levels are welcome!

Registration begins one day before the course starts at 11:00 a.m. via the calendar or by telephone on +43.1.523 55 58-19. If a class is ‘fully booked’, there is still the possibility of securing a remaining place on site. It's worth dropping by!

Biography

Franca Pagliassotto is dancer and choreographer born in Turin, she deepened her studies in ballet and modern technique at the Alvin Ailey School in New York, focusing on the Horton Technique with Milton Myers and Max Luna III. She also studied in Paris with Peter Gross and in Vienna with Ismael Ivo. In 1984, she founded the IL GABBIANO Association to promote dance in all its forms, of which she is currently the president and director.

She earned a Bachelor's degree in Terpsichorean Educational Sciences at the University of Bologna in 2004, with a thesis on the development of Le Sacre du Printemps in the history of choreography.

From 2005 to 2012, she was the assistant to director Ismael Ivo at the Biennale di Venezia, with whom she began an artistic collaboration in 2004. Since 2006, she has also been a Yoga Ballet teacher at ImPulsTanz in Vienna. In 2016, she attended the Horton Pedagogy Workshop with Tracy Inman, Director of the Ailey School, in Bari.

Productions:
Contemporary Dance Festival at the Biennale (since 2004, Venice), Apollo and Hyacinth (Berlin, 2006), Illuminata (Bolzano, 2006), Matthäuspassion (2007, Venice), Apocalypse (Tokyo, 2008), Dance Education Accademia Nazionale (Rome, 2008), Master Class Program Arsenale Danza (Venice, April 2009), Swimming World Championships (Rome, July 2009), ImPulsTanz Festival (Vienna, August 2009), Danceurs Napolitains (Naples, March 2010), Master Class Program Arsenale Danza (Venice, April 2010), Babylon (Brazil, May 2011), Moz.art 2012 with Company Il Gabbiano (Turin, March 2012), Library of the Body (Brazil, March 2013), Divina Commedia Tour (Turin, March 2014), Francis Bacon (Vienna, August 2014), Francis Bacon (Brazil, August 2014), Divina Commedia Tour (Turin, March 2015), International Expo Francis Bacon (Stuttgart, October 2016), Sissi, The Young Empress (Turin, December 2016), Les Misérables (Turin, June 2017), Les Misérables (Turin, December 2017), I Will Be King (Turin, December 2018), Shakespeare’s Ladies (Turin, December 2019).

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