When: 26.09.2026 & 27.09.2026
Times: Sat 14:00-18:00
Where: Katapult, Wilhelminenhofstraße 91, 12459 Berlin (Studio 2)
REGISTRATION: niniagrisito@gmail.com
Price €150 (early bird- until July 31st)
Regular price €170
Single day €90
GRISEL SALGADO, also known as Ninia Grisito, is an Argentinian aerial artist who has specialised in Silks for over 15 years.
She attended the National Dance School No. 1 until the age of 18, when she graduated as a Classical Ballet Teacher. She then entered the IUNA (National Institute of Art) to study the Dance Theater Career, where she studied for several years until deciding to continue her training independently.
As a result of her curiosity on movement, in 2010 she discovered the world of Circus and began training in different disciplines such as acrobatics, trapeze, partner acrobatics, rope, straps and silks with different teachers.
Of all these disciplines, only aerial Silks touch her in a special way. In 2012, she began personal research into this element and ended up developing her own method and technique of movement on the Silks, a method that is constantly evolving and being refined.
In 2019, with the idea of continuing to explore the possibilities of the body in motion and applying them to her own research in fabrics, she reached a turning point in her understanding of the body in motion and began the EME (Specialisation in Experimental Movement) training programme, directed by Jesús Guiraldi and featuring many remarkable teachers.
She has given seminars based on her movement research on Silks in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Europe, as well as presenting her solo performance Enredos en el Aire in Festivals and Conventions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay and around Europe.
From 2015 to 2022 she was part of the teaching team of the Escuela del Circo Criollo of the Videla Brothers in Buenos Aires.
SILK AS A MATTER, THE BODY AS A TOOL
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.
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:
Warm-up based on movement practices on the floor and with partners.
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.
Transmission and practice of exercises and guidelines aimed at research on the Silks.
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.
