Pascal Merighi
All-Level - Workshop
Date: 05. - 07. Sept 2022
Time: 16:00 - 18:30 pm
Days: 3
Studio: 2
Tools to connect body and space - Description
This newly constructed workshop provides a practical framework for the development of new sources of inspiration in choreography, using pre-existing material as a starting point. It aligns with the research on sustainability in the creative process in dance. The workshop also contributes to the ongoing reflection on the future of stage repertoire for performers in the absence of the repertoire's original creator. With "Re-constructed," the proposal is to share the process behind the creation of the solo piece WAK.NTR Rehab by choreographer and dancer Pascal Merighi, and to allow participants to engage in the practice of this process within the workshop. This offers participants the opportunity to deconstruct choreographic elements and reorganize them into new phrases.
Biography Pascal Merighi
Pascal Merighi is the co-director of the company merighi | mercy and the Artistic Director of Tanz Station - Tanzstation Barmer Bahnhof, along with Thusnelda Mercy.
After spending half a decade at Tanz Forum Köln under the direction of Jochen Ulrich, Pascal Merighi joined Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in 1999 and worked there as a guest dancer from 2008 to 2017. In addition to his work as a choreographer and dancer, he has collaborated with various companies and international directors, including Fabien Prioville, Maya Bösch and Florence Minder, Ivan Fatjo, Armel Roussel, Maja Delinić, Pottporus/Renegade, and the Wuppertaler Bühnen.
Pascal's productions include the duo "Songs of Childhood" for dancers Thusnelda Mercy and Dominique Mercy, commissioned by Sadler's Wells for the Elixir Festival, as well as "WAK.NTR Rehab" – a dance-performative matrix consisting of six solos created by Pascal Merighi between 2000 and 2005 for Pina Bausch's pieces and produced by the Pina Bausch Foundation. The productions "1 + 1 = 1" with Florence Minder and "Angels & Demons" with Juan Carlos Lerida, in collaboration with sound artist Mikel R. Nieto, are two parts of a project series called Short NOT.ice#. The latest creation, "Zwischenwelten," a collaboration with Thusnelda Mercy from MOVE! in town festival 2022, premiered in August.
Pascal teaches amateurs and professionals at the national and international levels.