Andressa Miyazato

Andressa Miyazato, originally from Brazil, is deeply passionate about social connection and transformation, kinesthetic empathy, decolonization, and community engagement. Growing up in Brazil, where arts and cultural activities are deeply embedded in community projects, Andressa first discovered her passion for dance through a community dance project. Subsequently, she shared her expertise by teaching contemporary dance in public schools.
Andressa Miyazato's artistic journey is marked by versatility and depth. Her career spans various prestigious dance companies and stages across continents. She began as a dancer with the Ballet de Rio Preto and later joined the esteemed Cisne Negro Dance Company in Brazil. Her European stint saw her as a dancer at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and Musiktheater Linz, where she portrayed notable leading roles in works by the choreographer Johann Kresnik, Jochen Ulrich, and Mei Hong Lin. Miyazato's performances have graced renowned stages worldwide, from the Joyce Theater Summer Dance Festival in New York to the Festival Internacional de Danza de la Habana in Cuba, and from the Volkstheater in the Impulstanz Festival in Austria to the Gran Théâtre de Genève in collaboration with Christian Pluhar- L'Arpeggiata. She has toured extensively across South America, South Africa, Mozambique, Taiwan, and South Korea, and
participated in festivals across Europe. Since 2021, Andressa has been a member of the Institute for Dance Arts (IDA) at Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, where she teaches repertoire, dance studies, dance improvisation, and colloquium for bachelor's and master's programs. Besides her roles as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer, Andressa is dedicated to research. She is currently pursuing her dissertation at Kunstuniversität Linz under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Amalia Barboza and Prof. Mag. Rose Breuss. Rooted in movement research and improvisation, Andressa's research focuses on corporeal scores and explores the body archive and repertoire as "devices" for dancers to (re)connect with their ancestral bodies. She participated in De/ Colonizing Knowledge conference at Wien University with the performance Verräterische Bewegung, as well as in the panel Muteness of materials: on cultural-scientific and artistic methods (Amalia Barboza and Georg Winter) at the 8th annual conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft at the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, where she delivered a lecture performance on her collaboration with the Corpo de Dança do Amazonas-Brazil.

ProART FESTIVAL 2024

MORAVSKÝ KRUMLOV 21. - 23. 6.

Taneční divadlo - Emoce a obrazy v tanci

At the next edition of the ProArt Festival in Moravský Krumlov, Andressa Miyazato will be working with the concept proposed by the festival's director, Martin Dvorak, in a workshop entitled Dancing the Paintings- Inspired by the “Slav Epic” by Alfons Mucha.
Participants will immerse themselves in the inspiring works of the Czech painter and a pioneer of Art Nouveau Alfons Mucha, with a special focus on the large paintingsadorning the walls of Moravský Krumlov Castle. The workshop invites participants to explore the questions: how can we dance a painting, and what tools do dancers need to translate it into movement? Based on movement research, participants will dive into their bodies to discover connections with the paintings. This methodology, which Andressa has been perfecting
for over 5 years, is part of her series of improvisation classes called Dancing from Multiple Sources. This approach encourages dancers to draw inspiration from various stimuli that unite the dancer's internal and external worlds in the process of creating movements. Therefore, in their classes, the dancers draw on their dance repertoire and body memories to engage with various materials, objects, texts, photographs, and paintings. The workshop provides the dancers with tools to recognize these movements and ways to activate the body through these diUerent elements. In doing so, the dancers can expand their movement vocabulary and, most importantly, establish a deep connection with their environment and with others. In the case of Alfons Mucha's paintings, the workshop will not only delve into the artist's impact on European art and his importance to Czech culture but will also facilitate a direct dialogue with his work. From mimesis to subjective responses, from physically embodying or interpreting the paintings, reflecting on them intellectually or emotionally, and, finally, actively integrating elements of the paintings into the participants' creative expressions.
The workshop welcomes individuals from the age of 15 and beyond, who have an interest in movement, dance, and the arts in general, fostering an environment conducive to experimentation.

>>Dance Theater workshop

What does it mean to dance from the soul? The dance Theater workshop is inspired by the work of the Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno. We will focus on the body's relationship with its environment as a source for poetic movement. Participants will be introduced to methods for working with the multidimensionality of the body. Theatrical spaces will be unfolded and explored through movement. Besides, dancers will explore everyday gestures and reactions in a state of transformation. Participants will experience that a simple gesture contains poetic expressions that communicate from the soul. In the final phase, participants will be shown a way to work with metaphors. How to transfer or translate words and language into fictional spaces where the body can interact.

>>Contemporary class

The workshop will address the development of movement phrases from the choreographic expression of Andressa Miyazato. These sentences will then be (de)constructed, drawing the dancers' attention to different layers that build the movement. So the action will always be in transformation and not as a goal to be reached. The process delves into aesthetics as a framework in which participants can explore different corporealities. Furthermore, instantaneous compositions challenged the dancers to find immediate solutions to adapt the body to new corporeal proposals. Starting with the warm-up, the dancers will navigate through their bodily roots, working with deep attention and awareness of their physicality. The introduction will consist of working with the principles of roots and dynamic curves, concentrating on the fascia's elasticity and connectivity. Rooting the feet, the hips and mobilizing the rib cage, strengthening and stretching simultaneously. This new corpo-reality creates a state of body awareness and alertness to the dynamics in which the body is involved. The intensity of floor work patterns and vertical combinations will be adapted to the group's level.

For more information about Andressa Miyazato: https://andressamiyazato.com