Gaia Santuccio
(AERIAL SILKS&ROPE)
To ensure we can deliver a high-quality workshop experience, we need a minimum number of participants.
Registration deadline: December 31, 2025
If we don’t reach minimum capacity by this date, the workshop will be cancelled and all participants will receive a full refund.
DISCOVERING YOUR UNIQUE MOVEMENT LANGUAGE
A space to explore the dialogue between dance and aerial work, developing technical vocabulary through creative exploration and structured improvisation on rope
WORKSHOP PHILOSOPHY
These workshops invite participants into a journey of movement discovery where technique becomes a language for artistic expression. Through sensing, listening, and communicating with the rope, we explore how our bodies can articulate stories in the air.
The sessions blend technical development with creative research, encouraging each participant to cultivate their unique movement style while building a solid foundation of aerial vocabulary.
SESSION 1: TECHNIQUE THROUGH SEQUENCES
Technique and tricks are the words of our circus language – words necessary to create. Without this vocabulary, it would be impossible to navigate our apparatus and make sentences.
SESSION 2: THE AERIAL DANCING BODY
This session is for all those who love dancing and are interested in investigating dance, body articulation and creative movement in the air, where we don’t have a floor to push off and our steps are climbs. Building on techniques from the day before, we’ll explore how to transform vocabulary into expressive movement.
OPEN TO
People with aerial practice who are interested in:
- Exploring the connection between dance and aerial work
- Developing their unique movement language
- Understanding technique as creative vocabulary
- Investigating structured improvisation
- Cultivating a conscious and embodied practice
Both workshops encourage participants to think through movement, fostering a deep, intimate connection with the rope for a more expressive and artistic aerial practice.
GAIA SANTUCCIO
Originally from Sicily, lived in the UK since age 16, currently based in Budapest.
Movement exploration through knots and sensing is the heart of Gaia’s creative and artistic investigation. Structured improvisation and communication among bodies are pillar approaches within her research work.
- Master’s in Contemporary Circus Practices – DOCH Stockholm (2022)
- ICCAR – International Circus Centre for Artistic Research
- Etienne Decroux’s mime technique – Moveo Barcelona
- Graduate of Circomedia Bristol & National Centre for Circus Arts London (2014)
- Writing “Rope Manipulation” book (publication 2026)
- Member of NèonTeatro – working with different abilities
- Creating solo performance: Isola-Ta
Gaia’s teaching encourages participants to discover their unique movement styles, inspiring individuals to think through movement for a richer, more expressive vocabulary.