Ninia Grisito: 4-day Intensive
The Silks as Matter, the Body as a Tool
August 28th - September 1st, 2025
Grounded in the principles of the Kinesphere, participants will explore the relationship between the body and its surrounding space, emphasizing projection, support, and flow. The practice integrates floor-based warm-ups, partner work, technical exercises, and movement sequences on the silks, with an emphasis on understanding aerial mechanics and fostering organic, efficient movement. The workshop promotes reflection, technical mastery, and the use of errors as opportunities for discovery, encouraging each participant to find their unique path in aerial expression.
About the Intensive:
Materials for the development of movement on silks and from the body.
The workshop is aimed at people who already have basic knowledge of the element, in this case the SILKS.
Starting from the desire to facilitate the expansion of awareness on the element and from the body, we will seek to understand its mechanisms and possibilities.
We will activate, from this base, a structuring of the acrobatic movement in the air and, from this place, we will focus on strengthening and understanding this physical and aerial awareness, advancing towards the generation of our own individual language.
This will be explored starting from the measurement of the body itself in the space, emphasizing projection, supports and the look, and using the support of the image of the Kinesphere as the place from which the movement is generated.
Understanding ourselves as a projection helps us to feel ourselves as amplifiers. The body is not without the space it occupies, constructs and radiates. The exploration of our bubble allows us to investigate and discover the possibilities of movement of our body in space.
The practice is therefore based on the principles of the Kinesphere, and will be structured as follows:
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Warm-up based on movement practices on the floor and with partners.
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Practice of exercises on the floor aimed at raising awareness related to specific elements of the aerial sequences on the Silks. Transmission and practice of movement sequences on the Silks.
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Transmission and practice of exercises and guidelines aimed at research on the Silks.
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Summary, from writing, of the day practice.
Objectives: To generate a meeting open to exchange and reflection. Transmission and understanding of technical sequences on the Silk.
Development of strategies that, from the ground, facilitate the approach to the understanding of the aerial technique on the Silk (educational and technical assistance for the movement on the Silk).
Contemplating that each body has its own paths, leaving aside the form to find physical efficiency in the progressions on the Silks, obtaining an organic quality in the movement. Understanding the error as a new possibility and not as a failure
(*) Important: Bring a notebook, have the option of short leggings, and long trousers and t-shirt (no tank top) for the floor work.
About Ninia
I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 22th August 1986. Restless mover since I was a child, at the age of 8 I entered the Escuela Nacional de Danzas Nº1 where I stayed until I was 18, between wooden floors, pianos, resin and point shoes.
Finally graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Danzas Nº1, the classic opened the door to the contemporany and I entered the IUNA (Instituto Nacional de Arte) in the Dance Theatre Career, where I studied for a few years, until I decided to continue my training independently.
Among my teachers are Claudia Barreta, Edgardo Mercado, Luis Monroy, Ana Garat, Romina Bernardi, Rodolfo Prantte, Gerardo Finn or Manuel Bicain, in Graham, Flying Low, Yoga for dancers or Swing techniques, among others.
Since 2010 he entered the world of Circus, training different disciplines such as Acrobatics, Trapeze, Acrobatic Partering, Rope, Straps and Silks with different teachers, among them Florencia Milani, Lucas Bustos, Martin Samanna, Facundo Martinez, Hector “Chino” Carrozo, Oskar Mauricio, Juan Izasa or Federico Mansilla.
From all of them just the Silks mades me fall in love with them completely and from 2012 I started a personal research with this element, developing my own method and technique of movement on the Silks.
In 2019 and with the idea of continuing to deepen in the possibilities of the body in movement and to apply them to my own research in the Silks I take the EME training ( Experimental
Movement Specialization) directed by Jesús Guiraldi, meeting there new teachers who mark new lines in my path and research, among them Mariela Puyol, Facundo Nieto or Chey Jurado in the disciplines of Contemporany Dance and Breaking.
This training means a turning point in my understanding of movement and its relationship with the aerial.
From 2015 to 2022 I was part of the teaching team of the Escuela del Circo Criollo of the Videla Brothers in Buenos Aires.
I have given seminars based on my movement research on Silks in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Europe, as well as presenting my own creations in Festival and Conventions in Argentina and Europe.
In 2022 I collaborate with La Bonita in their projects CPT and Circus Trainnings in Barcelona ( Spain). I currently live in Barcelona and continue teaching my workshop ‘Silks as a Matter, Bodys as a Tool’ in Europe and America
@niniagrisito
What to expect
During this workshop, you can expect 4 hours of daily training, split into morning and evening sessions. Each session will delve into developing your aerial silks skills, focusing on body awareness, spatial dynamics, and creating an individual movement language. The morning sessions will begin with ground-based warm-ups and partner exercises designed to increase awareness and prepare your body for the aerial work ahead. The afternoon sessions will focus on transmitting and practicing specific aerial sequences on the silks, with a blend of technical training and creative exploration. Throughout the course, we will emphasize projection, support, and efficient movement, helping you deepen your understanding of aerial technique while fostering an organic, fluid quality in your performance.
The workshop will be hosted at Oasi Sorgente, a peaceful retreat center located in the heart of Umbria, Italy, surrounded by rolling hills and lush landscapes. Between training sessions, you can relax by the pool, take leisurely walks through the countryside, or explore nearby historic towns and hidden natural watering holes. The food provided is organic, vegetarian, and whenever possible, grown right on-site, ensuring you are nourished with fresh, wholesome meals during your stay.
Information:
Prerequisites:
you need to be comfortable being in the air for the period of the workshop.
you should be able to aerial invert and climb
Accommodation:
single beds in shared room (see accomodation section on website for more information)
Additional information:
Participants can choose to stay on-site and have all meals catered during their stay.
Alternatively participants can find their own accommodation and decide to share lunch with the group during training days or figure it out on their own.
Oasi Sorgente is in the countryside so having a car or traveling together is recommended.
Oasi Sorgente can arrange to pick up people from nearby train stations.
Price:
4 - day workshop only: €220
with lunch: + €60 (€280)
All food and accommodation at Oasi Sorgente:
+ €330 (€550)