mignolo dance is a contemporary dance company founded by sisters Charly & Eriel Santagado in 2017. They are lifelong dance and creative partners dedicated to developing new work that explores elements of various artistic mediums through movement. The company has presented at many festivals including Altofest, Thessaloniki Fringe Festival, Come Together Dance Festival, Dance on the Lawn, Dumbo Dance Festival, FAKI Festival, KoDaFe, Making Moves Dance Festival, the Moving Memory project, New Wave Dance Festival, Triskelion’s SummerFest, and Your Move. Their work has been produced by Arts On Site, The Berrie Center at Ramapo College, Dixon Place, Gardenship Art, HERE Arts Center, and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Their dance film work has been featured at several international festivals including Austin Dance Festival, Dance Days Chania, Leeds International Film Festival, InShadow, New Jersey Film Festival, TANZAHOi, and Utah Dance Film Festival.
mignolo’s workshop will begin with an introduction to Movenglish, their movement language in progress with a word-to-word correspondence to English that seeks to preserve and embody the nuances of written/spoken language. Then they will teach Movenglish-based repertoire from Self Help, which is currently touring the east coast.
Vasiliki Papapostolou (a.k.a Tarantism) is an international experimental dance artist who incorporates physical theatre, ballroom Latin and movement concepts from street dance styles in her work. She holds a BA from Trinity Laban, London, an MA in Education with Distinction from King’s College London and she was trained with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel. As a choreographer, she has showcased her work at Sadler’s Wells, Whitechapel Gallery, TEDx Panteion University, The Place and Block 336 - ICF. As a dancer, her credits include performing with Edifice Dance Theatre, Teatro Regio Torino, Pottporus: Company Renegade, Taira Foo Dance Company, Open Art Surgery, Breakin’ Convention. She has been invited to judge international competitions such as KRE8 Lab (UK), Percorsi Coreografici (Italy) and Torre del Lago Dancing Time (Italy).
Vasiliki’s workshop starts with a combination of improvisation and some set exercises aimed at challenging movers to use their fullest potential in movement and exceed their perceived “maximum”. This leads into movement concepts that she used to create her latest work PANOPTICON, and give a deeper understanding into the repertoire.