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Was born in 1978 in Israel, in kibbutz Mizra. The kibbutz (a socialist community) life has had a wide effect on his artistic life and work. He received a scholarship to study theater and fine arts at the “Art colony”, in Israel ’s Negev (desert) and was admitted to a video-dance project by Bat-Sheva dance company dancer Lara Bersak (France), before joining the world known K.C.D.C (founded by Yehudit Arnon). He performed world wide with the works of choreographers such as Rami Be’er, Inbal Pinto, Ania Brod and others. Since 2003 he has been creating, performing and teaching successfully as an international award winning independent choreographer. In June 09 Idan premiered “Swan Lake” supported by “Tanzplan Dresden”, Germany in The 17th annual conferences in Bytom, Poland and the solo “Three pieced Swan, op.1″ in DNA (Dance New Amsterdam), New York. In March 2008, Idan Cohen’s “My sweet little fur”‘ wins first Performing Prize at the” Solo Tanz Theater Festival”, Stuttgart , Germany. In November 2007, Idan wins first price and the Award for original interpretation of musical composition in the Margarita Arnaudova international modern dance competition (Sofia, Bulgaria) with “Half cup sesame seeds” created for “Arabesque” dance company. In March 2007 he wins second prize presenting “A year in a fish life” at “No Ballet” competition (Ludwigshafen, Germany).Idan has been touring with his work internationally to U.S.A (New York, Los-Angeles- UCLA, Amherst MA, AU Washington DC), Germany (Ludwigshafen, Hannover, Regensburger Tanztage, Karlsruhe, Augsburg, Stuttgart, Dresden, Saarbrucken), The Netherlands (Noorderzon festival-Groningen), Belgium (Impactt dance festival,Wilrijk),Italy (Genova), Bulgaria (Sofia), Poland (Bytom), Thailand (Bangkok and Phuket) and Greece (“Dimitria” festival- Saloniki)- and is being invited as a Guest Artist and teacher at Kullberg Ballet (Sweden), UCLA University- Los-Angeles, D.N.A & CPR theater- New York, AU- Washington DC, ACDFA Boston, Amherst College MA, University of Massachusetts Dance Department, Smith College Dance Department, Mount-Holyoke college (USA), The Scottish dance theater (Dundee, Scotland),Belgium (Impactt- Wilrijk), Bulgaria ( “Arabesque” dance company- Sofia), Poland (Bytom annual festival and dance conference), The Jerusalem academy and Suzanne dellal dance center Tel-Aviv (Israel).
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Idan teaches advanced classes for professionals and youth. The teaching consists of technical training combined with choreographic work, influenced by several techniques: Floor-work, Release, Limon, Cunningham and more, to develop technical and artistic ability. The class includes repertouire excerpts of Idan Cohen’s work.
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At the age of 9 he joined West Australian Ballet School in Perth and later continued his education with the Scapino Ballet in Amsterdam (Netherlands). He is an experienced dance teacher; he has been teaching modern dance and classical ballet since 1983. In 1989 Harmen took part in the Cultural exchange with state ballet school with Professor Martin Putke in Germany (Staatliche Balletschule Berlin). He also worked in Austria (Balletschule der Wiener Staatsoper and Konservatorium der Stadt Wien) teaching modern dance and classical ballet. Since 1993 he has been working at the Anton Bruckner University Linz I.D.A and in 2007 he became the Co-director. His main responsibilities were: teaching classical ballet, modern repertoire and assisting students in their future creative developments, i.e. performances, work shops. Since 2006 he has been an active member of the “Kultur Impuls Scheibbs”, organising work shops and Open Air performances, helping to develop dance media in the region. In 2008 he worked with the handicapped people from „ich bin ok“ in Vienna and with the handicapped children in “Lebenshilfe NÖ”, Rogatsboden. Harmen’s career as a dancer begun in Netherlands. He was a soloist in Nederland Dans Theatre and Het Nationalballet. He also danced in Belgium (Ballet Royal de Wallonie) and in Switzerland (Basel Ballet). In Tanz Theater Wien in Austria he worked as the Co-Director and Ballet master for classical ballet as well as the Principal dancer in the company. Between 1992 and 2004 he has given numerous guest performances: Impuls Dance Festival Vienna (Tänzer der Verfemten), “Luzifer” and “Erzengel Michael”, Staatsoper Wien and Milan (Italy), “Textus” Tanztheater Wien Production, “Das Bild” Klangtheater Wien and performance in London, “Was macht der Faun am Nachmittag” WUK Wien. Tromp has worked with following choreographers: Hans von Manen, Glen Tetley, John Butler, Anna Sokalov, Jerome Robins, Jiri Kylian, Alfonso Alonso, Jorge Levefre, Heinz Spoerli, Rudi van Dantzig, Toer von Schayk, Hendrick Tomaszewski, Liz King, Ester Linley, Rosalia Chladek, Rose Breuss.
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Ballet class for contemporary dancers
My ballet classes are based on correct alignment of the body (as a whole) whilst going through the typical movements and combinations of ballet repertoire. It is my believe and concern that a dancer stays organically in touch with their body while performing the art—if—icial—shapes and forms of ballet: this is very often misunderstood but my love for ballet and my determination to enversise that only a natural aprouch to ballet can achieve the beauty and quality in the coordination of movements keeps me searching for new ways and methods to explain and teach my believes.
Floore barre
The floor barre is a great help for all dancers who want clean alignment in there body structure and proper muscle tonus, in all of the muscle groups. It was created by JEAN HAMILTON and I was taught it by MARY OVERLIE. It is a very clever and great system of movements. Depending on the advanced understanding of the student, it can take 1 and half hours or thirty minutes. Obviously beginners need the full time span and patience, as well as a curious mind towards anatomie and understanding of our own body structure. The ballet classes I teach are to help all dancers to understand the beauty of ballet , its organic structure within the body and that its ART aficial nature doesn´t mean unorganic movements or a forced unnatural use of our bodies.
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Kaya Kołodziejczyk graduated from the National School of Ballet in Warsaw and P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. Currently at the MA studies at HFMDK in Frankfurt am Main.She worked/danced/collaborated with a.o Rosas/Anne Teresa de Keersameker, Kris Verdonck,duo Szymon Rogiński + Rafał Dziemidok or David Wampach.Kaya is a contemporary dance teacher and guest lecturer for a.o.: La Raffinerie/Charleroi-danses, P.A.R.T.S.-BE, SDSU-USA, .She has been creating her own choreographed projects and video installations, including Birth Out… , :PK: and is a founder of the informal U/LOI Universal Law Of Impermanence group.
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
This class is dedicated mostly to the exploration of the limits of the body, while moving with set and improvised materials. After preparing our bodies for motion we will construct phrases based on structural improvisation. Going into different levels and dimensions we will introduce many ways of opposition and push our limits further by computing more complex materials. “Performative” multitasking is what we LOVE.
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Serge Bennathan was artistic director of Toronto’s Dancemakers from 1990 to 2006. Twelve of his works for Dancemakers were nominated for Dora Mavor Moore awards with both Sable/Sand and The Satie Project receiving the award for Outstanding New Choreography. Also known for his work with opera, he directed Rossini’s Tancredi in 2005 and Renard in 2008 (both for the Canadian Opera Company). Serge Bennathan lives now in Vancouver where he created Les Productions FIGLIO. In the company’s repertoire is The Invisible Life of Joseph Finch, a play with Jonathon Young, which premiered in Vancouver in 2007, went to Singapore in January 2008 and toured Canada in early 2009. Manga, a duet for Susie Burpee and Linnea Swan, premiered in Vancouver and Toronto in November 2007. Slam for a Time Traveller was commissioned by Dancing on the Edge Festival for its 20th anniversary in July 2008. Most recently, The Strange Adventure of Myself a solo performance by Sylvain Senez premiered in October 2009 at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver. Currently in preparation is Conversations a play about an imaginary encounter between Federico Garcia Lorca and his murderer Juan Luis Trescastro for spring 2011.
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Personal mix of technique including contemporary, ballet and Serge Bennathan’s unique movement style.
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Born in Koersel (Belgium), Thierry Smits studied ballet and modern dance in Brussels and Paris. After a short career as a dancer, he soon began choreographing. With his first choreography, La Grace du Tombeur, presented in 1990 at the Halles de Schaerbeek in Brussels, he quickly gained international acclaim in the world of contemporary dance. Since then he has been a tireless choreographer for his own company and other theatre companies and groups. In his performances, oscillating between pure dance and dramatization, and in which his technical rigor and gestural inventiveness are always present, mankind’s relationship to sex and the sacred frequently occupies a central role. The body – as object of desire, pleasure and finiteness – has been the very subject of Thierry Smits’s choreographic research over the past several years. With Eros délétère (1991), followed by the solo Cyberchrist (1995), Corps(e) (1998) and Red Rubber Balls (1999), Thierry Smits has founded his work upon the very notion of corporality and the tensions that exist between the climaxing body, the “body as sex”, and the intimately diseased body that is doomed to disappear. In addition to his work focused on complex subjects and linked to an element “outside” dance, Thierry Smits concentrates on dance itself – referring to nothing other than itself -, as he had done for the first time in Soirée Dansante (1995). With Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain (2001), Dionysos’ Last Day / Stigma (2003), and D’ORIENT, he continues this line begun previously giving priority to a study of form, choreographic composition, and the search for movement. Thierry Smits was recognized in 1995 when he received the SACD-Belgium prize, and again in 1998, for his creation Corps(e), for which he received the Belgium Océ prize for the performing arts of the French speaking community.
CLASS DESCRIPTION
I will do a composition workshop with the dancers, in group. Workshop will increase the participants composition skills (composition for large groups). Based in Brussels, Compagnie Thor was founded in 1990 by the choreographer Thierry Smits. He quickly gained international acclaim in the world of contemporary dance. Over the years, the company has produced more than twenty dance productions. Gathering excellent performing artists from around the world, the company has established its reputation touring throughout Belgium and abroad. Thierry Smits’ work explores, often in an eclectic manner, the bonds between mystic and erotic, the ambiguity between the sacred and corporealness, and questions the metaphysical problems of the individual’s state of mind and emotion. In his performances, oscillating between pure dance and dramatization, technical rigor and his gestural inventiveness are always present. In addition to his work focused on complex subjects and linked to an element ‘outside’ dance, Thierry Smits concentrates on dance itself – referring to nothing other than itself, giving priority to a study of form, choreographic composition, and the search for movement. Thierry Smits’ work received several prices: in 1995 when he received the SACD-Belgium prize. In 1998, his creation Corps(e) received the Belgium Océ prize for the performing arts of the French speaking community. In 2008 he is awarded the ‘Prix de la critique 2007′ (the critics’ Prize) for V.-Nightmares, for the best dance performance of season 2007-08.
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Head of the School for the Arts of dance at the Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv, Israel. Teaches Eshkol Wachman Movement Notation, dance-theatre and composition. Choreographer of theatre plays and film. Selected works: Hunger (Tmuna Theatre 2003-10), Film – Live (Haifa Theatre 2007-08), Love has Wandered (The Cameri Theatre 2007), Yakish & Pupche (Gesher Theatre 2007-09), Children of a lesser God (Beer Sheva Theatre 2008-10). M.Ed (1997) from Lesley College MA in Creative Arts in Learning. Doctoral student at ResCen, Middlesex University London. A dancer, researcher, notator and lecturer within EWMN.
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
An Eshkol Wachman Movement Notation overview demonstrating the language principles will be followed by an intense movement workshop in which the Notation’s rules will serve as means for thinking and reflecting. The workshop will aim at a composition, created on the basis of this new method of movement analysis.
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Choreographer born in 1976 in Arkhangelsk (Russia) where he received professional choreographic and artistic education at Arkhangelsk College of Culture & Art (1995-1998). Nikolay has been instrumental in the area of arts management in Russia with the creation of TOUCH, an annual International Festival of Contemporary Dance featuring companies from Russia, Europe and the USA. He is especially known for his work as a solo artist. Since 1999 has created dance pieces: ‘A Chrysalis’, ‘Grammar of a fine suit’ (2000), ‘In silence…’ (2001), ‘My picture vanished’ (2004) and dance movies: ‘Solo in silence’ (2003), ‘Mannequin’ (2004), ’My picture vanished’ (2005). He won dance programme’s second cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative in Geneva (Switzerland) in 2004 and was awarded for his two movies ‘Solo in silence’ and ‘Mannequin’ which took first place in competition of Russian dance films in festival ‘Kino-dance’ in S.Petersburg (Russia 10-19 November 2004). Nikolay worked for ALEFdanzaateatro Produzione in Orvieto (Italia) where between 2000 and 2002 took part in creations choreographed by Rossella Fiumi: ‘Buongiorno signori’ (Theatre Vascello, Roma, 2000); ‘Belonging to body’ (2001), ‘Dramma Involontario’ (Theatre Mancinelli, Orvieto, 2002). In 2001 also performed ‘There where jasmine never stops blossoming’choreographed by Alexander Pepeljaev (Theatre Kinetik, Moscow). Nikoloay create a concept, choreoghraphed and danced “Adam & Adam” with Benno Voorham, performance premiered in 2003 in Fabrik Potsdam, (Germany). Worked on project “Thresholds Crossed” for Maida Withers Dance Construction Company which was staged as a work in progress in 2005 (Moskow), finally premiered a year later in Washington DC, USA, and in Moscow and Krasnoyarsk (Russia) in 2007. Since that year Nikolay has started working for Samovarteateret AS in Kirkenes (Norway).
CLASS DESCRIPTION: Contact improvisation
Basics of contact Improvisation (from experience with teachers Voorham Benno (Sweden) and Esther Gal (Hungary)), as well as from my own observations of the body in interaction). Classes include warm-ups, exercises, and a little jam. Warm-up includes tuning, configuration, aimed at the realization of the body here and now, physically and in thought. Lying, standing on the floor or moving, using the concentration of attention, we will try to be in the body, listen to the body, feeling body. The focus will be working with partners, on what happens when we give or take weight to/from partner, as the body distributes force, as a bearing and support. From a simple touch of a couple and feel the point of contact, we will gradually find a common center of gravity in order to organically move, to dance a duet. The culmination of the classes – interaction in improvisation.
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Helena Jonsdottir studied at the National Theatre Ballet School of Iceland, with additional studies at Alvin Ailey, New York. She has performed in and choreographed countless productions for television, film, music videos and the stages. Helena has also written, choreographed and directed many choreographic films, including “Breaking voices” for Art Festival in Reykjavik 2002 with ÍD (Icelandic Dance Company) one of 10 Moving North project with the film “While the cats away” and then “Zimmer” which won the IV.
Videotanzpreis 2003/2004 of SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne and her latest film “Another” in collaboration with Estonia, Arte, YLE, SVT, DR, SDF, NRK and many more (www.this.is/helena). She is recognized internationally for her work in Scandinavia, UK and USA and was nominated in Los Angeles 2001 as the best choreographer at the Music Video Production Association Awards in LA and won the Grand Prix at the Cinessonne Film Festival in Paris, France 2006. After her dance theatre work “Open Source” won the first prize in the Icelandic Dance Theatre Awards in June 2003, since then Helena has developed further “Open Source” and made an Irish version of it, which was premiered at the Galway Art Festival and Ghent Art Festival in Belgium 2004. Helena has also created a new full-length version of “Open Source” for Iceland Dance Company at the Reykjavik City Theatre in 2005 and spring 2007 “Open Source” opened the Guangdong modern dance festival, China with ÍD and that version will be performed at the Reykjavik City Theatre autumn 2007 then it went to Brussels, Belgium performing at the BOZAR. And this year part of installation project “ Freeze” in Alaska (http://www.freezeproject.org/) organized by the Alaska Design Forum and the International Gallery of Contemporary Art and older visual art projects like Hinterland is a collection of artists projects which primarily take place along the banks of the River Trent in Nottingham. The initiative was launched in September 2006 curated by Jennie Syson, then part of contemporary art – traveling exhibitions “100 artist see god” – ICA London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, CA and more curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston. Beside of the creative projects Helena teaches at the Art academy of Iceland and at the Icelandic film school among giving lectures and workshops abroad.
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Physical theatre / Dance theatre
For: Dancers, choreographers, actors, writers, visual artist´s and filmmakers (Notice; We will be working with movements and words as our focus trough the week)
Get out of the hole into the whole.
We will exsplore the wonders relationsship between the word and movement by using the world of physical theatre towards the dance theatre. Working with everyday life, building on our heritage and habits. Physical theatre is used to describe any mode of performance that pursues storytelling or drama through primarily and secondarily physical and mental means. The work is inter-disciplinary origins- it crosses between music, dance, visual art as well as theatre. My work is based on what we see everywhere and know by heart. Although it is then transformed into a new and exciting context, it remains totally accessible.
Is it possible to give enough understanding and interest to start experiencing dance all around, and with that the ability to create from simple things and make it complicated enough for the audience to fill up the rest.
Starting from one word into a movement or exsploring our use of “bodylanguage” with culture differences in mind
With awearness I like to use an opportunity to encourage all of us to find our own dances, inspired by real life. Creating personal style only stands to enrich the world of dance we all inhabit.
“I´m less interested in how people move than I am in what moves them”
Pina Bausch, choreographer 1940 – 2009
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Georg Blaschke lives in Vienna and works as a freelance performer, choreographer and dance lecturer (mainly for contemporary technique and movement research). His activities have brought him to numerous festivals and professional centers for dance and movement programmes throughout Austria and abroad. His engagement focusses on the continuous transformation of the physicality and the presence as a performer which reflect the permanent changes within the field of the contemporary performing arts. His actual works with the titles Embraceable You, In Case of Loss und Your Dancer. (a somatic portrait of Liz King) are focusing on a somatic approach towards a choreographical understanding and principles of reconstructing the biographical depot of the moving body. His actual artistical practice is strongly influenced by the Feldenkrais Method, especially concerning movement research, partnering and reflexions on the presence of the performer.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: TO MAKE WORKS IN THE FACE OF THE VOID TO GAIN FORM, IDENTITY
CLASS DESCRIPTION: Contemporary Dance Training – Release based – Advanced level
The class starts with a guided movement improvisation to sensitize the awareness of the space inside and outside of the body and the perception of the group and is grounding the body at the same time for a Release based floor work. That practice includes approaches of the Feldenkrais Method. On the floor we concentrate on the flexibility of the pelvis, a good center and a free flow of the breath, using the earth for an organic and dynamic form of spiraling up the dancing body. At the same time I might propose visualization techniques to provoque other experiences to enrich the expressive and physical capabilities. A continuousely developped phrase on the floor prepares for the work in the center where we focus on Modern based placements and curves, on swings and released drops and are developping shapes in a more extreme way, emphasizing unexpected spirals and turns and shifts along a vertical axis. A good feeling for breath, air and space is leading us to more risk and pleasure for dancing and for exploring the limits of our bodies.
A dynamical choreographic sequence will finish the class and finally we will deepen the practice to release the sceleton towards the ground. My wish is to pass on the pleasure of dancing with the need of exploring the own limits, developping at the same time a profound awareness of the group and the space in which performance takes place.
Functional Expressivity – Advanced level
This workshop is adressed especially to already experienced dancers and performers who wish to explore and deepen their personal artistical practice considering principles and approaches through somatic methods such as Feldenkrais, Body Mind Centering and Release Technique.
Functional issues mostly focusing on the articulation of the sceleton will be the starting point of exercises, improvisations and tasks of movement research and will guide us to possible expressive interpretations and esthetical comments in space.
Tasks and questions:
- the shifting of awareness between inside and outside processes
- the socalled somatic approach to movement research and partnering
- the correlation between a non-judging gaze and movement
- the expressive options of body halves and of a functional touch
- the placement of moving tendencies who reveal from a somatic organisation into space as a choreographical/esthetical method
- ritualisation and stillness of movement and the presence of the negative space
- the possibility od self-organizing choreographical structures and reflexions on the presence and the observation of presence
During that workshop I wish to share my actual artistical processes and experiences with the group in an atmosphere of creative research.
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Graduate with gold medal the Tashkent Ballet School (1981-1990) and State Institute of Theatre Art Performance in Moscow (1990-1995) Performed in Russian Chamber Ballet Moscow (1991-1995) and Imperial Russian Ballet, directed by Maja Plisiecka (1995 -2000). 2000 – 2001 – dancer of the Silesian Dance Theatre in Bytom. Laureate of the 2nd Prize of International Moscow Competition, and 3rd Prize of International Contemporary Vitebsk Competition, Diplomant of International Ballet Competition in Paris. Teaches the classical technique in Spain, Norway, England. Currently works as a choreographer at Moscow Ballet School, Russian Federation of Figure Skating, Russian Federation of Artistic gymnastics and at Russian Federation of Ballroom dances.
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