Company Open Classes – Contemporary with Tara Dalli

November 22 @ 10:00 am - 11:15 am

Company Open Classes

Contemporary with Tara Dalli

Get your morning moving in a class with the ŻfinMalta company dancers and one of our expert guest teachers. Once a month for a week or more, local and international professional dance artists are invited to join the company’s morning classes, which include ballet, contemporary, somatic, and yoga practices. Classes are suitable for 18+ years,* and perfect for professionals and advanced students. ŻfinMalta provides a space where participants can further develop their professional practice, make connections, and experience life inside Malta’s National Dance Company.

*We consider participation from younger individuals on a case-to-case basis, usually accepting requests from participants pursuing vocational training. Interested participants under the age of 18 may contact martina.d.zammit@zfinmalta.mt in advance of booking their tickets.

Tara’s class maintains a playful approach to movement with curiosity and child-like imagination, to warm up the body and the mind with simple structures intended to find our focus, increase our heart-rates, centre our awareness and improve movement improvisation. Through various physical tasks and limitations, participants will be lead through exploration of different qualities of movement, with special attention on the concepts of time and space. This class offers a platform for each dancer to determine their focus – whether it be searching for new grooves and sensations, or on refining and clarifying coordinations.

About Tara Dalli

Tara is a freelance dance artist based between Berlin and Malta. She is currently collaborating with Emanuel Gat, performing two works – LOVETRAIN2020 & FREEDOM SONATA. Tara has had the opportunity to perform on prestigious stages and festivals including Sadler’s Wells, Festspielhaus St Pölten, Torino Danza, Grand Théâtre de Provence and many more. Tara was previously an artist with ŻfinMalta for five seasons, creating new works with choreographers including artistic director Paolo Mangiola, Jacopo Godani and Sergiu Matis, alongside re-staging works by, Roy Assaf and Tania Carvalho among others. While working and living abroad, Tara maintains a focus on developing her own voice as an artist and will be making her first work set to premiere in Malta this December.