TRANSMISSION
Director / Excucitive Producer
NADINE
GERSPACHER
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Nadine Gerspacher’s workshops delve into contemporary dance, blending movement tasks and scenarios to connect participants and explore the dynamics of body language. She creates a welcoming environment that encourages students to push their boundaries and engage deeply with their physicality. The class features exercises that enhance body awareness, focusing on breath, joint articulation, muscle tone, and stability to build physical strength. Students participate in technical exercises, including floor work, games, and intricate phrase compositions, designed to activate and ground their center for optimal movement freedom. Partner work, guided improvisations, and theatrical tasks infuse playfulness and creativity, while Nadine’s unique physicality, characterized by powerful yet detailed movements, offers a journey through contrasting textures and unexpected surprises.
ABOUT CREATION
Nadine Gerspacher’s dance theatre pieces are inspired by the essence of “everyday life”. As a choreographer, she crafts imaginative characters that inhabit worlds of absurdity, poetry, and raw physicality. Her work is distinguished by moments of grotesque humor, vulnerability, and transformation, exploring the human experience through relationships, emotions, and existential quests. Nadine’s collaborative process fosters spontaneity and individuality among her artists, ensuring that each creation is a fusion of personal and collective essences.
She takes pleasure in getting to know each dancer, tailoring unique roles to deepen their character work. Her goal is to foster a vibrant environment for creative exploration, emphasizing exchange, openness, and diversity. Nadine’s choreography is rooted in the timeless themes of contemporary dance.
Nadine has shared her practice at numerous esteemed venues and festivals worldwide, including Freezone Barcelona, Circuit-est Montréal, Institut del Teatre Barcelona, Akram Khan Company, and many others. Her international teaching engagements reflect her commitment to nurturing creativity and innovation in contemporary dance.
Nadine shared her practice at the following places:
WORKSHOPS & CREATIONS
Since 2018 Nadine Gerspacher is
leading the Freebodies program in Barcelona
FRE3 BODIES Program
The FRE3 BODIES Program was created to bridge the gap between contemporary movement training and the professional world. Its mission is to support emerging talents in their transition from students to professional artists.
Selected young performers join this initiative to gain a comprehensive understanding of the realities of a career in contemporary dance. The program equips them with essential tools through a range of activities including creation processes, rehearsals, and stage experiences.
Operating as a young company, FRE3 BODIES is based in Barcelona and provides participants with opportunities to enhance their creativity and gain performance experience alongside leading figures in the contemporary dance scene, both nationally and internationally.
Launched in October 2018 by Nadine Gerspacher and Nicolas Ricchini, the program began with fourteen dancers selected from auditions held in June 2018. These dancers embarked on a journey designed to serve as a stepping stone to professional life. Throughout their time in the program, they have worked under the guidance of Nadine Gerspacher and Nicolas Ricchini, and interacted with a diverse range of local, national, and international artists who led various modules.
In October 2019, Ombline Huvelle joined the team as rehearsal director, further supporting and enhancing the program’s development.
CENDRA
“CENDRA” is a tragicomic dance theater piece created by Nadine Gerspacher in collaboration with the dancers of Freebodies BCN and Julien Rossin as the assistant of the creation. The central question posed in the work—what would you do in the last 20 minutes of your life?—transforms into a colorful, humorous, and absurd journey. Through a deep exploration of character work, caricatures, and physical dance theater, the performance is imbued with humor, poetry, and a unique artistic vision.
LAS OTRAS VIUDAS
“Las otras viudas”, the story of the internal revolution of 11 women trying to accept their personal loss in order to find the courage to accept and eventually let go. Vulnerability, humour and the poetry that characterises Nadine Gerspachers work come together in a narrative way in order to shape the opportunity for self-celebration. The short film is amazingly captured by Nicolas Clausen.
LA BODA
Idea /Concept & Choreography: Nadine Gerspacher Performers: Iwanson graduated students 2016 Munich . Music: Casta Diva de Maria Callas
