LITVAKdance and DISCO RIOT join forces to bring London-based Jorge Crucis and his world-renowned peak-performance practice, Towards Vivencia to San Diego for a one-evening workshop on Thursday May 19th, 6-8pm at SDSU ENS 200 Dance Studio Theater.

About Jorge:

Jorge holds a degree in Sport Sciences and studied contemporary dance at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid. After working as a professional dancer for different companies throughout Europe, he became a full-time lecturer at London Contemporary Dance School (The Place) for four years. In 2014 Jorge co-founded min tala, a Pan-Arab dance company that uses contemporary dance as a peacekeeping, personal and professional development tool in areas of conflict in the middle East. He also served as Artistic Director for Aerowaves Festival in Burgos in 2011.Currently, Jorge is an award-winning choreographer whose work has been performed in the main theatres around the world: from the prestigious New York City Centre (USA), to the avant-garde 798 District in Beijing (China) or Sadlers Wells and the Royal Opera House in London (UK). Jorge has brough Towards Vivencia to companies and university dance programs across Europe including Akram Khan Company, Carlos Acosta Dance, DV8 to name just a few.

About Towards Vivencia:

“Drawing from competitive sport and experiencing exhaustion, spontaneity, risk and chance, participants will explore the limits of their body and will be challenged to find their purpose.

Over the last 2 decades advances in neurosciences, anthropology and phenomenology have allowed us to pin down the non-ordinary state of consciousness associated with peak performance presence. In this Towards Vivencia workshop we will touch briefly on how your nervous system works, but we will mainly jump, run, dance and climb to explore the limits of our bodies to train resilience, we will work on apnea to push our frights and insecurities, we will tap into the ancient knowledge of Whirling Dervis Dance to wake up non-ordinary states of consciousness, and we will play so hard that we will understand how to transform any class, rehearsal and performance into a game.”

This class was made possible in part by the Dance Program at San Diego State University.