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Susanne Bentley Contemporary |
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Susanne Bentley (NZ/BE) is a contemporary dancer, improvisor, teacher and choreographer, working with others and on her own projects in New Zealand and Europe since 1996. In NZ she worked with companies such as Touch Compass, Opera NZ and Weta Productions (Peter Jackson- film), and was a founding member of Curve Dance Collective. In 2000 she received a DanceWEB scholarship for Impulstanz (Vienna). Since then she has performed with companies such as Superamas, Cie. Fabienne Berger, Les Ballets C de la B, Maria Clara Villa Lobos, Poni, Random Scream, Heine Avdal, Lenio Kaklea, Bal Moderne… She has created her own works since 1996- either choreographed or improvised. From 2002-9 she also made music and performances with electronic musician Peter Van Hoesen as Bent Object. She is a founding member of SoloConversations Dance Collective, performing improvised pieces regularly since 2007. Susanne has trained in a wide range of disciplines including release-based contemporary, performance improvisation, Action Theater, contact improvisation, composition, Skinner Releasing, Alexander, ballet, yoga and music. She teaches contemporary dance and performance improvisation for companies, universities and studios such as Ultima Vez, Danscentrum Jette, Charleroi Danses (Brussels); Tanzquartier (Vienna); Tanzfabrik, Dock 11 (Berlin); K3 (Hamburg); University of Waikato, Otago University (NZ)... She also teaches internationally with Bal Moderne. http://susannebentley.com Classdescription: Get Down! A floor work class with funk… strengthening centre, perfecting technique, extending movement range and having fun. How to throw yourself at the ground and miss… The classes start by warming up at ground level: strengthening centre and upper body for taking weight by travelling across the floor with set material or improvisations. With a strong centre we can move fluidly and economically on all levels. We then transition into practising specific movements and short phrases passing through different levels, exploring inverted material. Emphasis is placed on efficient use of the body. We use gravity, momentum and weight of body parts, spirals, direction, softness to find fluidity and ease in, out and over the floor. This material builds up to the final phrase that will end the class. Attention is always given to extensive stretching afterwards to prevent injury. Get Down! is inspired by my own passion for moving on all levels and in all directions. My focus is on a playful, supportive environment to approach challenging material and intense physicality. Participants should come expecting to sweat and have fun. Take up the challenge, “let’s get physical!” Good times guaranteed. “There is an art.., or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. “ – Douglas Adams, Life, The Universe and Everything |
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Jan Burkhardt Contemporary |
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Jan Burkhardt, Tänzer und Choreograf, tätig im In-und Ausland. Schwerpunkte seiner Arbeit sind zeitgenössische Tanztechniken, Laban/Bartenieff Bewegungsstudien, Contact Improvisation, Body Mind Centering, multimediale Improvisation. Starken Einfluss übt auch seine jahrzehntelange Beschäftigung mit klassischer und zeitgenössischer Musik aus. Neben Performanceproduktionen sucht er immer wieder die Herausforderung und das Potential des öffentlichen Raums als Kunst- und Kommunikationsort. Projekte für und mit Profis; Arbeit mit Laien, Kindern und Jugendlichen. |
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Alessio Castellacci Contemporary |
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Alessio Castellacci Alessio Castellacci studied psychology at the Universita’ La Sapienza (Rome, Italy) and dance-making at the EDDC/ArtEZ – Arnhem (Holland). He has performed for Maddai (Ita), Canvas Performing Arts (Nl), Noema Dance Works (Nl/Ciprus), ‘St Company (Hungary), Gabriella Maiorino (Ita/Nl), Mati Elias (Nl), TheDamCompany (Nl/S.Africa), H.Min Kim (Germ/Korea), Morgan Nardi/Ludica (Germ/Ita), Dani Brown & Marta Navaridas (Germ/Usa/Sp). Since 2005 he is part of Fingersix, an international network of dance-artists. He lives in Berlin working as a teacher, dancer, voice-performer and sound composer. Movement Research The class is aimed to discover idiosyncratic possibilities of the body in motion. This is sought through elements of experiential anatomy, finding an exciting place where poetic images interchange fluidly with an understanding of body mechanics. Particular focus is given to floorwork technique, exploring which roots we base our movement upon at any moment - playing with movement qualities where all our body surfaces can become dynamic rooting points. And, most important…we’ll connect to our own desire and joy of moving , while meeting the others in our dance. |
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Bruno Caverna Contemporary |
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Bruno Caverna is an internationally recognised dance artist/teacher well known for his charismatic and friendly personality. He has a vast background of capoeira, contemporary dance, acrobatics, Contact Improvisation and Qi Gong. Over the last 15 years, Caverna has been extensively researching ways of assimilating and integrating elements of these various forms into a more expansive somatic understanding. Caverna has always invigorated the passion of his profession with an inevitable humane impulse to interact with people of all kinds. This drive has propelled him into numerous eclectic projects. He has been invited to share his particular approach to dance and improvisation among the major schools, festivals and dance companies in Europe and overseas. Playing in the Extremes The overall concern is to research and explore the inherent polarity present in every life situation as the fundamental and inspirational element of self-expression. The workshop interweaves partnering, improvisation and floor technique with a deep research on breath-work. Participants are given a chance to leave the thinking mind behind and dive through the immediate sensorial world. Through conscious guidance and sense of humor, a space opens up where ideas of boundaries, limits, right and wrong seem to fade away. Almost like an aerobic meditation, one pushes into both extremes of strong physicality and utmost sensitivity – exploring and connecting all layers of perception and sensation. From a deep personal research drawing together elements from capoeira, qi-gong, contact improvisation, and contemporary dance, emerges an organic, energetic, and unique physical language. A strong connection to the natural spiral energies running through the body, and focus on integrating deep states of awareness give the chance to find a full bodied expression on all levels. Even though the work can be very intense, the sense of lightness is never lost – the flavor of playfulness is a constant reminder and encouragement to never forget why we started dancing in the first place! Capoeira and beyondCapoeira is a Brazilian art form that mixes dance with combat, acrobatics with rhythm, and poetry with self-expression. It is celebrated as a ritual activity in a circular area called "roda”. This workshop welcomes people of all types to take their very first steps in Capoeira. In a friendly atmosphere everyone will be invited to interact and communicate with each other in unusual ways, sometimes in dynamic group situations, at other times through partnering exercises. The foundation is playfulness; the most important thing is not what you are able to perform, but how to enjoy yourself the most within your own possibilities and capacities. What is most special about Bruno's class is that it doesn’t focus on learning the correct steps and form, but is more about the very essence of Capoeira; improvising, playing, and sharpening our instinct, sensitivity, and awareness of our partners. To come to a state beyond thinking, where our own bodies can teach and surprise one another by reinventing transitions, movements, and connections that may have seemed impossible before. |
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Jess Curtis low-flying release technique |
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Jess Curtis is a director and performer of interdisciplinary dance/performance. Working independently, and in the collective performance groups CAHIN-CAHA, Cirque Batard (France/USA'98-2002) CORE (USA '94-98), and CONTRABAND (USA'85-'94) he has created and collaborated on numerous award-winning performance works known for their intense physicality, emotional honesty and athletic beauty. In 2000 he founded Jess Curtis/GRAVITY as a research and development vehicle for very live performance. Gravity aspires to the creation of exceptionally engaging physical entertainment that explores and addresses issues and ideas of substance and relevance to a broad popular public. Jess has received four Isadora Duncan Dance awards, was a recipient of the prestigious 2001 California Dancemakers Fellowship and recently was awarded a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for his work, fallen. He recently premiered a new evening length piece entitled “Touched: Symptoms of Being Human” in June 2005 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts where he was a Fellow in the Wattis artist-in-residence program. Fundamentals of Motion, a low-flying, released technique Class will begin with floor-work based in organic movement fundamentals and incorporating breath and sound to warm and expand the joints and muscles. From the floor we will explore multiple pathways to standing, bringing the center of gravity over the support of the legs, feet, arms and hands. Developing speed and awareness, we will focus on the body in motion and the qualities of motion in the body.Velocity. Airtime. Fun. Sweat. |
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Brice Desault Contemporary |
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Brice Desault is a choreographer and free-lance performer. After studying and teaching martial arts for over ten years, he learned contemporary dance in Paris with José Cazeneuve at the Peter Goss center. As a dance performer he worked among other in Sicily with Moto Armonico, in France with Esther Aumatell, in Japan with Saburo Teshigawara, and in Berlin with Susan Linke. Since 2009 he started choreography with TUNKEN SIE ROSEN in Berlin, MERLIN a continuous work in progress in residency in Italy and Danemark, and realized a short-film in Venice called MOONDAY. The Sun gravity Find an holistic center to deal with the energies and various parts of the body, to assume its presence and skills into the space. The class will start with a warm up on the floor, exploring the fragility of the skeleton and its relation with the ground, while harmonizing our breath within our body. Then exploring its verticality by the belly center, its weight and relation with the space. Day by day we will try to rediscover a finer quality of our physicality, based on the gravity center by deploying it into variations and improvisations. |
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Frey Faust Axis Syllabus |
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Frey Faust: After receiving primary discipline and essential experiance under the tutelage of his mother from ages 8 to 15, Frey Faust went on to accumulate an eclectic skill-set including contact improvisation, pantomime, capoiera, aikido, percussion, voice and several modalities of dancing. He traveled across the US, and then to Europe to augment his own artistic study and practice through collaborations with choreographers such as Gina Buntz, Donald Byrd, Merce Cunningham, Nita Little, Ohad Naharin, Meredith Monk, Janet Panetta, David Parsons, Randy Warshaw and Stephen Petronio, to name a few. A two-year stint as artist in residence at the Werkstaat e.V. Duesseldorf (now the TANZ HAUS NRW) allowed him to set the foundation for his pedagogical and artistic vision. Since then he has traveled the world, teaching and collaborating with like-minded artists. He is the author of the book and the originator of the Axis Syllabus; a method for teaching movement, through which he aspires to assist his students to deepen their understanding and responsable use of nature's ingenious gift, the human body. Besides ongoing research and re-writing his book in preparation for a second edition, he continues to find contexts for collaborative art-work, most recently with Mirva Makinen in "The Balance Project", Francesca Pedulla and Richard Adossou in "Two Among Us", and "No Compromise" with Anna Claudia Pedone. |
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Raffaella Galdi Contemporary |
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Raffaella Galdi was born in Genoa, Italy and lives in Berlin. Training in classical and contemporary dance, she attended the Ecole de Danse Rosella Hightower, in Cannes, France, and received her diploma from the modern dance academy Rotterdamdansacademie, in Rotterdam, Holland. She has been a member of the Berlin-based company Cie. Toula Limnaios, headed by Toula Limnaios, the Belgian Companie Thor, headed by Thierry Smits, the Luxembourg company Unit Control, headed by Bernard Baumgarten and the Belgian company Galothar, headed by Andy Deneys. As a freelancer she has worked with choreographers including Rui Horta, LaborGras, Christoph Winkler, Tomi Paasonen, Helge Müsial, Thom Stuart, Sanne van der Put. Raffaella is choreographer in residence at the artblau - Tanzwerkstatt in Braunschweig. Her choreographic exploration often returns to the concept of the personality-identity occupying the space. She is particularly interested in research, which she considers an important tool to experiment and to observe the work itself. She uses improvisation to discover movement material and as a working method to create instant choreography. Contemporary dance training The teaching is based on release alignment technique. Initially I guide through exercises to build up the awareness of the skeleton and to work more efficiently by using less muscle tension, (only using deep muscles and strictly the amount of tension required to move and dance) and of aligning the bone structure (to respect its natural condition and to use the connection with “gravity”). The aim is to work with the idea of “release and connection” allowing the natural connection of different body parts through relaxation and alignment, so that each part can move as a consequence of the other. We start with a minimal work of the basic aspects of movement: to give the weight, to connect to the floor, to move in the space, to stand. We will use some material combinations and, as well, some tools of improvisation, in order to ex- plore the own potential to interpretate and create movement qualities. This class is the result of my personal investigations and is influenced by the study with Labor-Gras, Barbara Mahler and Susan Klein (Klein Technique). |
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Gabriel Galindez Cruz Contemporary |
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Gabriel Galindez Cruz ist 1977 in Kolumbien geboren. Er hat studiert am Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, Frankreich und setzte dann seine Ausbildung an der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main fort. Gabriel hat gearbeitet in Projekten von Dominique Dupuy, Carmen Werner, Alvaro Restrepo, Dieter Heitkamp, Carlos Cortizo, Toula Limnaios, Huber & Christen und WilhelmGroener. Seit August 2006 ist Gabriel Mitglied der Compagnie Sasha Waltz & Guests. Als Choreograph hat er mehrere Tanzstücke gemacht. "Marca", seine letzte Creation war in Dock 11 und Tacheles im Sommer 2006 ausgeführt. The Class We start with a minimal work of the basic aspects of movement: To give the weight, to conect to the floor, to move in the space, to stand... Always with easy and slow exercises to give the time to work with body consciousness and get warm in the deep muscles, joins and skeleton. After that, using some material combinations and tools of improvisation, we explore the own potential to interpretate, use and created qualitys of movement. We don't focus in the form to give priority to the sensation in and out of the body. |
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Chaim Gebber Contemporary |
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Chaim Gebber, Brazilian choreographer, dancer and dance teacher Chaim Gebber has been working for many years with various companies of the brazilian dance scene. His first work “Pressagios da loucura” (1993) was named the best choreography of the year from UNESCO and CIDC (Conseil International de la danse, Paris). He moved to Germany in 2001 where he held engagements as a teacher and solo dancer at several theatres and private companies. In 2005 he decided to work on his own dance projects in Berlin. From 2007 - 2011 Chaim Gebber has also been living and working in Shanghai, China. His choreographies have been shown in Europe, Brazil and Asia. Besides his choreographic work, Chaim Gebber gained recognition as a teacher for professional dancers. He conducted workshops with Theatres and independent dance companies around the globe such as: Cia. de Danca do Palácio das Artes (BR), National Theatre Darmstadt (GER), National Theatre Kassel (GER), Jin Xing Dance Theatre (CH), Beijing Contemporary Dance Theatre (CH), Architanz (JP) or cultural institutions alike. >b>The "CONSCIOUS BODY" The " CONSCIOUS BODY" teaches the dancer to work continuously and precisely with his body. It enlivens the body, working with different patterns to re-collect, reallocate and integrate, strengthen, activate and bring into full awareness energetic units of deep body consciousness. Predominant is the work with the floor. By pressing certain body points against the floor, which means transfer of weight, power can be reduced and movements are established by a logical consequence. It guides the dancer to focus in an efficient way to use his energy, and to work consequently, concentrated and continuously with his body. The "CONSCIOUS BODY" gives room to develop deep familiarity with highly personalized movements. Everybody has the possibility to work individually and to concentrate on himself. |
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Marcela Giesche Contemporary |
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Marcela Giesche (US/DE) is a freelance artist currently based in Berlin, Germany. She studied dance and choreography at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie and The Ohio State University where she received her BFA. She has received numerous scholarships including participation in the danceweb 2010 at Impulstanz. Marcela has danced for Bianca Van Dillen and Beppie Blankert in the Netherlands, with Neuer Tanz / VA Wölfl, and Canan Erek in Germany, and for the Italian company Deja Donne. She has taught and presented her work in the USA, Canada, and across Europe. In the past three years she has been working extensively with Bruno Caverna as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer. She has also been developing her own research in movement improvisation with strong focus on partnering, musicality, and spatial/energetic awareness. The class consists of a combination of dynamic release techniques and floor work intertwined with improvisational elements designed to open and expand the possibilities of the performer. Continuous movement flow, partner-work, improvisation, awareness of musicality, and the use of imagery are used to bring the dancer into a state where the class becomes a journey while thoroughly warming up the physical body. Rather than focusing on specific body forms, Marcela’s techniques work on finding clear geometric energy patterns running through the mind, body, and space, which drive the movement with momentum. A sweeping movement phrase is what finally brings the elements of technique, performance, and improvisation together in a full bodied personal expression. |
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Ayara Hernández Holz Contemporary |
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Ayara Hernandez Holz(Mexico, Uruguay 1976) studied contemporary dance, composition and theatre in Uruguay and at EDDC (European Dance Development Centre). Since 2001 she is creating her own work in collaboration with Felix Marchand as “Lupita Pulpo”. She taught at in the University in Uruguay, at the meeting of Net of South American dance/RSD and in Berlin for professional dancers and is Ground work Based in floor work and release technique. Mapping the skeleton through anatomical images based on floor work. the focus goes into the relationship between centre and limbs. Finding simple movement patterns help to sharpen our awareness of body function. At last the collected information is taken into phrasing playing with different physicals and special dynamics. Improvisation and group games are part of the class. |
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Maya Lipsker Contemporary |
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Contemporary This class allows dancers from all levels to experience a group - dynamic work which stimulates the senses and the imagination. Focusing on energy lifting exercises, we explore areas of physical effort, virtuosity, musicality, individual expression and improvisation. The key for our work is enjoying - as an essential mental and physical task. Witnessing the powerful tool of pleasure and guiding images, and encouraging creativity through awareness, alertness and playfulness- through which we gain our technique, strength and articulation. In the second part of the class we will experience our physical build up infused into the study of a choreographic sequence. Based on my experience of teaching the Gaga method used in Batsheva Dance Company, the class embodies the elements I have adopted and developed in improvisation, composition and choreography in the last 6 years. Maya Lipsker Maya Lipsker Danced 3 years in Batsheva-Ensemble Dance Company in Israel (2000-2003). Danced for choreographer Lara Barsaq in Israel and Europe (1999-2004). Moved to Berlin in November 2004 and joined "Research Project" with Sasha Waltz and Guests. Since 2004 is active as an independent choreographer, dancer and contemporary dance teacher and is based in Berlin. Received artistic residencies (Dock11/Berlin, Labor Gras studio/Berlin, Kinitiras Studio/Athens, George Apostu Center Bacau/Romania) to name a few, and was invited to be guest choreographer and create works for theater dance companies all over Europe. Her work was performed in Germany- Berlin (Dock 11, Lucky Trimmer,Tanztage) Stuttgart, Theater Freiburg-Heidelberg, Essen(Pact Zollverein), Theater Görlitz, Theater Greifswald, Ireland (Project Art Center Dublin), Romania, Czech Republic (Ponec Theater Prague) and Greece (Athens) amongst others. Since she is based in Europe Maya is teaching contemporary dance classes and workshops in various companies (Tanztheater Osnabrück, PVC Dance Company, Ballet Vorpommern, Goerlitz Tanzcompany), in studios, schools and academies for dance education in Berlin - such as Ernst Busch College, UDK (dance, choreography and concept studies),SEAD (Academy for Dance, Salzburg) Balance School, Danceworks Berlin and others. |
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Tamas Moricz Contemporary |
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Tamas Geza Moricz has worked most notably with William Forsythe and the Ballett Frankfurt. He worked with and performed pieces by Jan Fabre, Mats Ek, Jyri Kylian, Jonathan Burrows, Saburo Teshigowara, Antony Rizzi, Jacopo Godani, Amanda Miller, Crystal Pite, Ryuichi Sakamoto and many others. Tamas is teaching the Forsythe Improvisational Technologies and giving ballet classes at companies and dance academies around the world: P.A.R.T.S, Cullberg Ballett, D.A.N.C.E, Arsenale della Danza at Venice Biennale a.o. Dynamic Ballett My interest in a ballett training is to create a class not only to focus on technique, but also to explore dynamics, speed, grace and musicality, where working on form and technique becomes flowing and creates actual dance. My aim is to ease rigidity and apply freedom of movement while still retaining a technically challenging class. The execution of a ballett combination is always a mix of form and flow on command and I'm interested in the balance between these components. Clarity of positions and the elegance of lines should not suffer a loss to freedom of movement and my focus is to explore the dancers own sense of movement and to help them make their dancing more articulate, joyful, precise and also fulfilling. |
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Rick Nodine Contemporary |
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Contemporary Dance Rick’s work (Spherical Orientation) is a blend of Contact Improvisation’s approach to the body with the structure of the Contemporary Dance class. He mixes improvisational approaches with choreographed movement to articulate the soft athletics and multidirectional awareness of CI in solo movement. His class also taps the energy, unity and fun of traveling through space with music and set movement patterns. Rick began a performing career 20 years ago and has danced in many contexts including theatre, opera, dance theatre, digital media, television, mixed ability, site specific and pure dance productions. He has been an educator for 15 years and currently teaches Composition and Improvisation at the London Contemporary Dance School. As guest teacher Rick has taught in over 30 cities in 11 different countries and he has led company class for many companies including Rambert Dance Company, Punchdrunk and DV8. Summer 2011 will see his education and choreographic work tour to Scotland, Taiwan and Puglia. |
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Sello Pesa Contemporary |
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Sello Pesa‘s class is based on the technique of natural movement with emphasis on: working with objects and space and the relationship between them; he work with the meaning behind objects and how to shift their meaning and emphasis to convey an alternative. The Profi Training will focus on a a technical warm-up and work with tasks, elements and themes and leads towards a choreography using the capacity of each participant. Sello Pesa is a Soweto born choreographer and dancer interested in the changes and challenges that arise from living in South Africa. Studied dance at Eastside College/South Africa and at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds/UK where he received a Diploma in Performance Arts. Sello is instrumental in the development of young choreographers, introducing a Training and Development Programme in Soweto as founder and Artistic Director of Ntsoana Contemporary Dance Theatre and as part of Dance Umbrella. He is teaching internationally Contemporary, Improvisation and African Dance. |
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Britta Pudelko Contemporary |
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Britta Pudelko kam über eine Ausbildung im klassischen und Modernen Tanz u.a. am Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, New York zum zeitgenössischen Tanz. Großen Einfluss auf diese Entwicklung hatten die Studien mit Stephen Petronio, Jeremy Nelson, Luis Lara Malvacias, Susan Klein und Barbara Mahler. Sie tanzte u.a. für Bernard Baumgarten, Robert Poole, Christoph Winkler, Michael Clark. 1997 gründete sie zusammen mit Katrin Geller die Kompanie Pathfinders, für die sie bis 2000 drei Stücke erarbeitete. Seit 2001 ist sie Mitglied im Ensemble von Achim Freyer. 2004-2006 arbeitete sie als choreografische Assistentin und Tänzerin in London mit Akram Khan für die Produktion "MA", mit der sie auch auf Welttournee war. Seit 2008 ist sie regelmäßig als Gastdozentin für die Sascha Waltz Company tätig und unterrichtet im Studio LaborGras, Berlin. Im Dezember 2009 gründete sie zusammen mit Patricia Woltmann das Kollektiv Patty & Britty und die Impro-Gruppe grape shade mit Biliana Voutchkova, Ingo Reulecke und Klaus Janek. Unterrichtsbeschreibung Schwerpunkt der Technikklasse ist es durch anatomisch korrekte Arbeit mit unserem Instrument, dem Körper, einen befreiten und dynamischen Bewegungsfluss zu erreichen. Klarheit von Bewegungsansätzen zu schaffen und durch den geringst möglichen Krafteinsatz Bewegung zu initiieren. Am Anfang der Stunde nehmen wir uns Zeit in unserem Körper anzukommen, unser Skelett zu erkunden, Gelenke zu öffnen und Verbindungen in unserem Körper und im Verhältnis zum Raum zu erforschen. Darauf aufbauend entstehen Bewegungssequenzen, welche zuerst sehr einfach gehalten sind. Am Ende der Stunde werden wir eine komplexere Choreografie zusammenstellen, um den Tänzer/Innen die Möglichkeit zu geben Ihre darstellerischen Fähigkeiten und Präsenz mit dem erarbeiteten Material zu verbinden. The main focus of this technique class lies on the anatomically correct work with our instrument, the body. The goals are a free and dynamic way of moving, to become clear where the movement initiates from and to find a way to move with more efficiency. In the beginning of the class we take our time to arrive in our body, to discover our skeleton, to open up our joints and to find the connections within our body and the space. Based on this work we create movement sequences, which start very simple and allow us to apply the information from before. Through a more complex choreography during the last part of the class we have the chance to use the technical work to express our individual and theatrical talents. |
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Marcela Quintero Contemporary |
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Marcela Ruiz Quintero (Bogotá-Colombia) Studied Contemporary dance at the Academy of Arts of Bogotá (1994) and joined the dance department at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen in 2001. After her studies she joined the Company Folkwang Tanzstudio (FTS). As a dancer, she worked for Pina Bausch, Michelle Ann de Mey, Thierry de Mey and Henrietta Horn among others. Since 2003 she works in a close collaboration with Leandro Kees. Since 2009 she is working and collaborating as a Freelance dancer, taking part in following different projects. In her artistic work she focuses in experimenting diverse paths to understand the body and its expression. Constructing and deconstructing movement structures through a creative and conceptual process, are understood as tools to achieve a personal language, simplicity and naturalness in the expression of the body. Contemporary class The contemporary floor class focuses on developing a strong relationship between the dancer and the floor. Through considered and intelligent exercises correlated to the dancer’s anatomy - weight transfers, relaxation techniques, movement economy, inertia and momentum - participants will experience physical sensations releasing their bodies, the key groundwork that will improve dancers’ technical abilities, necessary for the increasingly complexity of the remainder of the training. At the end of the class, dancers will be able to direct this new physical state through an adapted choreographic variation. |
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Gabriele Reuter Contemporary |
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Gabriele Reuter ist Choreografin und Tänzerin in Berlin, London und Nottingham. Gast-Dozentin in Zeitgenössischen Tanz, Improvisation und Kontaktimprovisation an verschiedenen Universitäten in England, Workshops und Profitrainings in Portugal, Norwegen, Brasilien und Chile. Ihre eigenen Choreografien wurden auf verschiedenen internationalen Festival gezeigt, u.a. nottdance (UK), Springdance Festival Utrecht, SpringLoaded at The Place London, idans Istanbul. Sie war bis 2010 Mitorganisatorin der Impro-Reihe Freistil und ist Ko-Kuratorin des Workshop Programms der Tanzfabrik Berlin. www.gabrielereuter.de Contemporary Dance This class is based on technical information from Release-based Contemporary Dance and Contact Improvisation. Exercises and phrasework emphasize on the travelling of weight and momentum and the balance between effort and release, tension and softness in the body. The movement material is athletic and bold, makes us of the floor and invites the up side down. An interest in generous and expansive use of space, ongoing practice of performance skills and a sense of improvising through choreographed material is crucial to this class (and my practice as an artist). |
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Geraldo Si Contemporary |
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release based movement training Geraldo teaches a release based movement training that emphasizes on presence and articulation of the body. The warm-up phase focuses on a series of improvisations around weight, connectivity and movement of the bones in relation to the floor. When our joints are prepared and our muscles warm, we go on to playfully explore these anatomical principles in time and space through movement sequences that exercise spirals, timing and communication. Geraldo Si began his dance career in 1981 with Pantanaliadança, Brazil, after having been taking dance classes for three years. In São Paulo, he worked as dancer and actor with Antonio Abujamra, Geraldo Thomas, Penha de Souza, the Teatro Brasileiro de Dança, Marzipan Dance Cia amongst others. He also participated in a number of T.V. series. In 1990 Si came to Germany to join the Wuppertaler Tanztheater led by Pina Bausch, where he danced as a soloist for four years. Subsequently he collaborated with Raimund Hoghe (“Geraldos solo” in 1996 and “Tanzgeschichten” in 2003), Stephanie Thiersch, Healing Theatre Köln, rodolpho leoni dance, Vera Sander Art Connect and Cocoondance. In 1996 Si founded x.x.y. theater in Wuppertal and directed several of its productions. He is also artistic director of Sommertanz Junge Talente a dance theatre project for the youth, that was a pilotscheme from the Kunststiftung NRW from 2003 till 2005. Inspired by the collaboration with Suprapto Suryodarmo, for the past twelve years Geraldo Si has focused most of his work on improvisation and the concept of “growing through movement”. In 2002 he initiated an on going series of events „SichtLaut“. On these performance evening dancers, actors and musicians experiment within the borders of improvisation. Si also regularly gives workshops for improvisation in Europe, Asia and South America. dance conected in Dance City and Newcastle College (Newcastle / England), oficina de movemento Theatro Aracy Balabanian (campo grande / Brazil, oficina de danca (São paulo / Brazil), Zagreb Tanzschule (Croatien), Tanzfabrik Berlin and Hochschule für Musik und Tanz - Köln (Germany) a.o.. |
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Davide Sportelli Contemporary Tänzertraining |
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Davide Sportelli is a creator, performer and movement/improvisation/composition teacher active in Europe and overseas. After studying music and theatre, he approaches dance in Rome with Cristina Menconi and Sacha Ramos, and at Accademia Isoladanza, Biennale of Venice, following choreographers and pedagogues such as Carolyn Carlson, Malou Airaudo, Raffaella Giordano, Nigel Charnock, Bill T. Jones, Inaki Azpillaga, Frey Faust, Ivan Wolfe, Susanne Linke, David Zambrano a.o. During the last ten years he has been collaborating with Sasha Waltz, William Forsythe, Caterina Sagna, Ingo Reulecke, Michäel D’Auzon, Giorgio Rossi (Ass. Sostapalmizi), Annapaola Bacalov, Rebecca Murgi, Veronika Riz, Roberto Cocconi, Ismael Ivo, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti a.o. Based in Berlin, he carries out his personal research on performance creation and on the craft of writing. Contemporary Dance The open class will focus on gravity, clarity, freedom. New strategies will be proposed each day to sharpen our connection with the inescapable, the visible. the potential. Starting with a thorough warm-up, fine-tuning our senses and gently bringing our anatomy into motion, we’ll train the ability of being thinking bodies, multiplying the possibilities of seeing, responding, leading and following, embodying energy and releasing energy, aiming to achieve a full, generous and honest physicality. Through the conscious use of weight as the fundamental motor of motion, with a combination of movement explorations and given material (what we may usually call technique), we’ll work on the connections within the body and with the space, in order to direct intentions with clearness and play freely. The thin line between decision and surprise will be our playground. Profitraining His class is meant to be a tool to find a richer and more sophisticated relationship between the space/time we are in and our physical speech. We’ll start by exploring verticality and horizontality, weight and directions, grubbing among the innumerable qualities of time and movement. Through the conscious use of weight as the fundamental motor of motion in space, with a combination of impro and set sequences, we’ll focus on the connections in our body in order to respond efficiently to the gravity. Playing on the thin line between surprise and control, we’ll try to make our phrasing more organic and intimate, and at the same time clear, able to project and suggest. |
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Marco Torrice Contemporary |
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Marco Torrice was in Rome in 1983. After high school he began to study Philosophy at the University; at the same time he started to take dance classes and workshop around Europe ( Dominique Dupuy, Hervè Diasnas, Vera Mantero, Khosro Adibi, Julien Hamilton...). In 2006 he began to study in P.A.R.T.S. ( performing art school in Bruxelles). During the four years in Bruxelles, among other things, he started to develop a movement research based on improvisation, with the purpose of increasing at the same time body awareness, movement vocabulary and performances skills. Marco is author of tow performances: "Three études on Ligeti" and "Star-Dust"; he is actually working with the Belgium company "Mossoux-Bontè" and he is giving workshops around Europe. The class will be structured in two parts. The first part will be mainly focused on Susan Klein technique with the purpose of increasing body awareness, connection and separation through and in the body. In the second part some exercise, phrase material as well as simple improvisation tasks, will be given to the participants in order to explore the notions of weight, spiral and relation to the floor. |
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Paul White Contemporary |
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PAUL WHITE is one of Australia’s most highly regarded dance artists. His career as a performer and artistic collaborator has included working with some of the art form’s most renowned choreographers and directors such as Meryl Tankard, Lloyd Newson (DV8 Physical Theatre), Tanja Liedtke and Garry Stewart (Australian Dance Theatre). Paul is in high demand as a teacher and collaborator and also extends his skills and interests to the development of short film festivals, television, Kung Fu and competing in Aerobic competitions. In 2008 and 2010 Paul won the Australian Helpmann awards for the Best Male Dancer in a Dance or Theatre Production, the 2010 Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography and has twice won the Australian Dance Award for the Most Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer (2008, 2010). This year he will collaborate as Assistant Choreographer to Meryl Tankard for the Leipzig Oper Ballet, he will also tour his solo show The Oracle to dance festivals in Lyon, Montpellier and the Nederlands. |
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Stella Zannou Contemporary |
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Stella Zannou has studied dance and choreography in London College of Dance, London Studio Centre, the American college of Greece (BA) and at the Greek State School of Dance. In 2006 she founded “Smack Dance Company”, in Athens, with which she has presented her own choreographic works in theatres and festivals such as the “5th and 6th Athens International Dance Festival”, “Tanzwelten 2009” - Germany, “No Ballet Festival” – 2010, Germany “Solo and duo dance festival” in Budapest (choreographed for Prosxima co), etc. Stella has collaborated as a dancer with Clint Lutes, Walter Bickmann, Maya Lipsker, Richard Siegal , Nana Vahla, M.Klien, Nickolas Mortimore, Yannis Antoniou and Kunst – stoff, Editta Braun, Thomas Mettler, Apostolia Papadamaki, Haris Mandafounis, K.Mixos, Prosxima dance co, Landscape dance co, etc She has been teaching contemporary dance in Germany, Greece, Italy, etc and is currently living and working in Berlin. Class description Although technical elements are found in this contemporary class, the basic aim is to make dancers aware of the weight and rhythm of movement as well as to dance without fear and hesitation by using their physicality and full energy. Trying to discover and develop a personal way of moving, I encourage personal expression and personal differences to exist, by using simple improvisation exercises. At the same time, this class is a very strengthening training, preparing dancers for the dance demands of our times. Influences are found from different dance techniques as well as from martial arts. Floor work is a very important part of the class and although acrobatics and hand stands are found, these are not the main goal of the class. The focus is on the safety of the body and flow of movement. In general, this class is most often considered to be a very joyful and challenging class attracting dancers who love the physicality of dancing. |
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Sigal Zouk Contemporary |
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Sigal Zouk, geboren in Israel 1971, studierte Tanz an der Emek Yizreel-dance school. 1994 - 1996 war sie Mitglied des Ensembles der ‘Batsheva dance company‘ unter der Leitung von Ohad Naharin und Naomi Perlov. 1997 zog sie nach Berlin und tanzte mit Helge Musial, Joseph Timm und Luc Dunberry. 1999 - 2004 war sie Mitglied von ‘Saha Waltz & guests‘. 2005-08 arbeitete sie mit Meg Stuart (‘replacement’, ‘maybe forever‘/choreographic assistant, ‘all together now’). Seit 2007 arbeitet sie mit dem Theaterregisseur Laurent Chetouane zusammen und probt derzeit an der sechsten Kollaboration ‘Publikumsbeschimpfung’. Sigal Zouk born in Israel. She studied dance in Emek Yizreeldance school. and was a member of the ‘Batsheva` ensemble (Artistic directors: Ohad Naharin, Naomi Perlov). 1997 she moved to Berlin and worked with Helge Musial, Joseph Timm, Luc Dunbery. 1999-2004 Sigal joined ‘Sasha Walts & guests‘. 2005-2008 she worked with Meg Stuart in ‘replacement‘, ‘maybe forever‘ (choreogaphic asistent), ‘all together now‘. Since 2007 she is working with theater director Laurent Chetouane and currently rehearsing in their sixth collaboration ‘publikumsbeschimpfung’. |
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