Anima Fabrik

G4EU celebrates
Upcoming: Vienna 🌉

Don‘t miss 🔜 Thu, 28th of May, 18h-19:30h
TALK on Graham‘s body of work and its pedagogical evolution. .fabrik

📑About: Founded in 2017 by Rafael Molina, the mission is to connect dancers, teachers, and enthusiasts of the Graham technique across Europe, fostering collaborations through exchanges with European artists, the Martha Graham Center, and global communities.

G4EU offers regular classes, exchange programs and scholarships, conferences and resources (educational materials and mentorship).

At regularly held conferences, questions concerning the historical significance, as well as the philosophical and technical principles underlying the Graham technique, are explored.
By that, G4EU preserves and expand Martha Graham’s revolutionary technique, believing in dance as a universal language of expression.

The research engages with questions such as

- Has Graham Educational diversity been documented and by that asking for a decentered, transnational and plural history?

- What is Graham today? Should primarily be understood as a codified form and fixed body of content, or rather as a pedagogical approach and way of transmitting knowledge and practice?

G4EU focuses on the future and asks how we can collectively envision and contribute to a fair transmission of the Graham legacy. This involves recontextualizing Graham and engaging in a critical rereading of the technique in order to challenge and reconsider what Graham could be and what it should become in contemporary practice and education.

✍️ .fabrik

100 Years of Graham 💯
Next week (28-31st of May) we are proud hosts of VERY special guests, we want to introduce to you!

Based in Athens, PENNY DIAMANTOPOULOU was a faculty member at the Greek National School of Dance and at horohronos Professional Dance School. She is the founder and artistic director of ARTHROSIS Dance Company. In 1995, she moved to New York to study at the Martha Graham School. From 1996 to 2000, she was a member of the Martha Graham Dance Ensemble, a faculty member at the Martha Graham School and a guest teacher at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and SUNY Purchase. 🏛️

MARZIA MEMOLI from Palermo, joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 2016. Her repertoire with the Company includes Graham’s The Rite of Spring as the Chosen One, El Penitente, Chronicle, The Princess in Cave of the Heart, Satyric Festival Song, Diversion of Angels, Act of Light, Deep Song. In 2022 she performed for Twyla Tharp in „In the Upper Room“ and „Nine Sinatra Songs“ at New York City Center. During the 24/25 season, Memoli joined Twyla Tharp for her “60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee” tour performing nationwide. Marzia Memoli is a recent recipient of the Fini International Rising Star Award. ✨

KIM JONES is a Korean-American artist raised in New York City. Jones was a dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and principal dancer on Broadway national tours. She currently serves as Régisseur for the Martha Graham Center, is a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Jones reconstructed major historical modern dance works, including Martha Graham’s Imperial Gesture (1935) and Paul Taylor’s Tracer (1962), presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Joyce Theater in NYC. 🗽

RAFAEL MOLINA - Artistic Director of Graham for Europe. GfE was founded in March 2017 by Rafael Molina, a Fulbright scholar and Martha Graham School alumnus. Rafael, a former performer with Graham 2 and an educator, has also led a research on Graham educational practices, funded by the Centre national de la danse. The initiative seeks to bridge Europe with the Graham legacy. 🗺️

📷 .diamant .fabrik

We opened a new dance space in Vienna✨ Save the Date!
🎉 OPEN DOORS • January 31
Free entry • 11:00-21:00

Our biggest offer of the year is here — and it’s only this week 🎉

🪐 ANIMA RESIDENT → first month FREE
🛸 ANIMA EXPLORER → first month -50%

Valid only until 29 November. After that, it’s gone for the year. Join ANIMA now — just in time for our new studio 🏩

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