DIRECTOR:
Gonzalo Barales
Gonzalo Ezequiel Barales is a movement artist, teacher and researcher who dedicates his life to share and create ways of improving our relation with ourselves, with the world around us and with others. He works combining philosophy, movement and nature observation to expand the way we perceive ourselves and reality.
Main Focuses
The practices he creates have four main focuses:
Improving our health and wellbeing.
Empowering ourselves, rising confidence and increasing our possibilities of movement.
Developing acceptance, Self Knowledge and the ability to Feel, Choose and Create at any moment.
Refining the way we relate and vinculate with ourselves and others to allow us to engage in a more respectful, playful and joyful sharing, dancing and being.
Knowledge and Inspiration
He combines all the knowledge that he has acquired and developed along his 22 years of career studying and practicing movement.
The main movement disciplines he combines for this project are: Qi Gong, Tai Ji Quan, Kung Fu, Yoga, Contemporary Dance, Soft Acrobatics and Contact Improvisation.
He also uses philosophy concepts inspired from Taoism, Stoicism, Buddhism and Vedanta to get a deeper and more integrated state of presence.
And last but not least, he also uses information from sciences, like Biology, Math, Anatomy, Chemistry and Physics to interconnect and integrate even more our mind and body with nature.
Knowledge at our Service
In his way of understanding life, everything is connected and each knowledge area can offer us different tools that we can use to grow and empower our personal process, needs and desires.
He understands that it is more important to have the tools and the knowledge at our service, being able to modify or adapt them so we can use them to build what we need in us than to try to modify ourselves to “fit” inside the knowledge, tool or discipline
Teaching Experience
Argentina:
Highligh: In 2017 he trained The Argentinian National Contemporary Dance Company (CNDC) for a semester.
*Ciudad de Buenos Aires: Asociación Kai Men Kung Fu, Centro San Ti, Parque Centenario, CNDC, Galpón FACE, Parque Dorrego, Parque Los Andes, CECAM
*Provincia Buenos Aires: La Reserva Capilla del Señor, Managua Pilar.
*Córdoba: Ucronía Agua de Oro, La Mansa Capilla del Monte.
*Rosario: Dhanpal, Rosario.
Uruguay:
*La Paloma, Los Botes Balneario.
*La Pedrera, Spa del Mar, Playa desplayado, Hostel El Rumbo.
*Arachania, Placita de Arachania.
*Sierras de Rocha, Tierra Comunal.
Spain:
*Madrid, El Karnak, Parque del Retiro.
*Barcelona, Xantala, Centro Cultural La Occulta, Spai Wu Wei, Parque de la Ciudadela, Parque Poblenou, Barceloneta.
*La Floresta, Can Canigó, Plaza Madonna.
*Les Planes, Can Rectoret.
*Rubi, Chen Tai Chi Chuan Vida ITKA
*Sabadell, Tempo Estudi en Moviment, Espacio Yantra.
*Manresa, LaGare
*Terrassa, Irehom
*Girona, La Torre de Vilanna
*Montserrat, Casa Templo Montserrat
*Sant Celoni, Comunidad Tierra Luz
*St Esteve Palauturdera, Can Bonamic
*Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Yoga Home, Playa de las Canteras.
*Lanzarote, Centro Comercial Biósfera Plaza.
Ireland
*Cork, Ballynamona Beach, Babywalk Midleton
Belgium
*Brussels, Danscentrumjette, Artists Commons, Volksroom, See You, La Zinzenerie, Absl L'Accroche, Studio Billie, Garage29.
*Ghent, WISPER, Polariteit.
Germany
*Berlin, Katapult, Schönflisser 7 Studio, Tempelhof Park, Volkspark, Friedrichshain Park.
*Bötsow, In Touch with Nature
*Freiburg, Hans Durr, Eschholtz Park.
France
*Bourmont, Creative Vacantie
Portugal
*Tavira, Estudio Yucca
Switzerland
*Le Noirmont, Place de jeux
Studies and Formation:
Kung Fu, Qi Gong and Tai Ji Quan, Kai Men Association Argentina.Jeronimo Milo, Horacio Di Renzo, Ruben Chavez, GM Chan Kowk Wai (2001-2010)
Kung Fu, Qi Gong and Tai Ji Quan, Center San Ti Argentina. Jeronimo Milo (2010-2017)
Kung Fu, Qi Gong and Tai Ji Quan, International Tai Ji Quan and Kung Fu Association, Argentina, Italy and Spain. GM Gianfranco Pace, Luciano Vida (2016-2023)
Wu Shu Traditional, Jing Wu Association, Luciano Cassarino, Argentina (2015-2018).
Escuela Loto Blanco, Kung Fu Tradicional, Diego Fernandez, Argentina (2018-2020).
Bachelor’s degree on Physiatry and Kinesiology University of Buenos Aires (2004-2010)
Purna (Integral) Yoga Instructorship, Aurobindo Sivananda Ashram, Buenos Aires, Swami Maytreyananda (2011-2013)
Contemporary Dance, Flying Low and Release, Julia Gomez, “Pata de Ganso” Studio and “Ana Deutsch” Studio, (2013-2019)
Contemporary Dance and Improvisation, Nadine Gerspacher, Salon Camargo, (2014).
Dance Improvisation, Domus Studio, Agustina Martinez de Igarzabal (2013-2014).
Contact Improvisation, Federico Perez Gelardi, Café Müller Studio and SP Dance Center Studio. (2013-2019).
Classical Dance through Biomechanics, Julia Gomez, Ana Deutsche Studio, (2014-2018).
Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, Chao Piao Sheng, Cheng Ming Institure, (2013-2015).
Tui Na and Chinese Massage, ITMC (Chinese Traditional Medicine Institure) Buenos Aires, (2012-2013).
Stretching Global Activo, Jaqueline Bronstein, Argentina. (2017-2018)
Reiki Usui, 2005-2007, Teresa del Valle Mussi, Tian Tao Temple, Buenos Aires.
Soft Acrobatics, Martin Fiasche, Circular Acrobacia, (2017-2020).