David Zambrano

Note: This is a 2-week workshop. If you’ve already done at least one week of Flying Low with David Zambrano, you’re welcome to join week 2 only, where David goes deeper into the method. If you’re new to Flying Low, plan to join both weeks.

This workshop focuses on the dancer’s relationship with the floor. Through simple yet highly articulated movement patterns, the class works with breathing, speed, and the release of energy throughout the body. These principles activate the connection between the center and the joints, allowing dancers to move in and out of the ground with greater efficiency while maintaining a centered state.

Special attention is given to skeletal awareness, supporting the development of physical perception, responsiveness, and alertness. The practice includes partnering work and movement phrases that explore fundamental laws of physics such as cohesion and expansion.

A core image of the practice is that when one body moves, the whole room moves with it. The body is understood as constantly spiraling; whether running, walking, standing, or dancing. Working with spirals allows dancers to enter and exit the floor with ease and to perceive themselves and the space from multiple perspectives. These spirals propel the class continuously through space, both grounded and upright. This is the essence of the Flying Low technique.