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Ben Grinberg (USA) \u2500 Queer acrobatics, workshop<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]May 18, 2024. | 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
\nZagreb Dance Center, Ilica 10<\/a> – GREY STUDIO
\n<\/strong>Buy ticket: 5 \u20ac<\/b><\/strong><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]This workshop will explore partner acrobatic skills and creative scores that push beyond traditional base\/flyer roles<\/strong> that too often can be gendered and mimic heteronormative dynamics. \u00a0 This workshop invites the participation of same-sized and non-normative bodies, utilizing non-verbal languages of physical connection to build trust, intimacy, and unlock cycles of mutual support through movement. This workshop is appropriate for movers of all levels \u2013 please wear clothes you can move in with non-slippery materials.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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Ben Grinberg<\/strong> (he\/they) is a Philadelphia-based performing artist, director, clown and educator working at the intersection of contemporary circus and ensemble dance theatre. His work embraces the earnest awkwardness of connection and the mess of existing in a world of collapsing structures. He is a graduate of the inaugural class of the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training (now the Pig Iron UArts MFA, where he is also on Faculty). Grinberg is co-founder, and longtime Artistic Director of Almanac Dance Circus Theatre, an award-winning and internationally touring physical performance ensemble, and from 2017-2021 was a founding core faculty member at Circadium, the nation\u2019s first certificate granting program in contemporary circus performance. With Almanac, they won a 2020 Rocky Award, a 2017 Suraya Award, and a 2019 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Movement\/Choreography for xoxo moongirl, which they also directed.[\/vc_column_text]