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Vertical Dance Workshop - Center Focus (Market Hall)
August 29, 2026 August 30, 2026
with Diana Lopez
SERIES OF CLASSES

Total # of Classes
2

Class length
240 minutes

Location
Market Hall

5
spots left
WALL AND CENTER SPACE: core, concept, and intersections
Vertical Dance Intensive with Diana López Soto (Canada/Mexico)

July 11 & 12, 10am-2pm @ Market Hall
$250
(2 days 4hrs each, total 8hrs)

All 4 dates:  June 27 & 28, 10am-2pm @ PACA July 11 & 12, 10am-2pm @ Market Hall
(4 days, 4hrs each, total 16hrs)
$450

Register for 1 series or both. PACA focus on Wall, Market Hall focus on Center Space.

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This workshop explores center space as a physical, conceptual, and intentional proposition. Drawing from somatic practices, body architectures, and principles of opposition, participants will investigate the body as a dynamic axis connecting inner and outer worlds.

Through a guided progression of harness work, contact dance, Gyrokinesis, Qigong, and improvisation, we will explore grounding in suspension, expansion through opposition, and the integration of spirals. Intersection as transformation: our physicality is not fixed, or shielded by boundaries, but continuously changing in relation to gravity, each other, and the universe.

Rethinking core beyond musculature by engaging the central axis (Taiji Pole); the energetic pathway between cranium and sacrum. Inspired by the season, we will also attune to Liver/Wood energy, supporting tendon health, elasticity, and the release of stagnation. This is a space to cultivate awareness within your movement practice, centering on the experience of the self as continuous flow.

We will work according to the individual and group level to manage growth, guide development, and integrate unexpected discoveries. This workshop invites movement professionals with previous or little experience in harness. We also invite visual arts artists to process the work with us and share their perspective of the process.

CONTENT TO BE DEVELOPED: 

1. INTEGRATION CIRCLE: Circle to share experiences, questions and embodied ideas during the processes. Supported. Space to dive into reflection and connection. 

2. CONCEPTS: Disseminating the concept of “Center Space” physiological architectures, traditionalChinese medicine, and opposition concepts. 

3. ALIGNMENT AND OPPOSITION: Exploring somatic systems that support the integrity of movement in suspension and awakening of concepts in our practice. 

4. IMPROVISATION AND CONTACT: Softening bodies for interaction with space and each other. Deepen receptiveness. 

5. HARNESS WORK, MIX OF WALL AND CENTER WORK AT PACA AND CENTER SPACE AT MARKET HALL: Inspired by lllPosto technique by Wanda Moretti, Lindsay Butcher and Kate Lawrence. As well as inspiration from past discoveries in laboratories and self investigations. Also, an observation and research space will be dedicated to the following points: 

• Embody opposition and supporting architectures. Explore the possibilities of groundwork in different levels, discover support in center space. 

• Deepen interaction: in relation to others, self, and space possibilities. 

• Climbing with pulley systems / open to creativity and exploration


Diana López Soto:
Mother, Farmer, Multidisciplinary Artist, Producer, Choreographer, Rigging Systems Designer  and Movement Teacher.  

Diana proposes an integration of the artistic, ecological and wholistic relationships between body, movement, and land. Her interest in the process of creation carries an artistic responsibility towards our environment, community, and future generations. Winner of Ontario, Dora and Canadian National awards; as well as a recipient of two residency commissions from Ilaii Circo, Mexico. Her workshops, laboratories, residencies, and process-based work have been presented in Panama, France, USA, Canada, Mexico and Costa Rica. Certified Vertical Dance Teacher by IllPosto Vertical Dance Training with Wanda Moretti; she also studied with Lindsay Butcher and participated at the International Vertical Dance Summit 2017. Vayu and Qigong teacher, student of the GYROKINESIS method, and practitioner of Axis Syllabus. 

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The class takes place on...

  • August 29 at 10:00 am (Saturday)
  • August 30 at 10:00 am (Sunday)

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