ERICK JIMENEZ

Ashtanga Yoga

Erick Jimenez (Costa Rica). He did his artistic studies at the Conservatorio Castella 1983 to 1994. In 1995, he worked for Gen Fest 1995 in Rome and studied theology and sociology and the Institute Mystic Corporis Rome-Florence. In 1999 finished his Master degree in contemporary dance at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica and danced in various projects for Costa Rican companies. Master of Arts from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, he studied Quigong at the Galician federation of Kung Fu, therapeutic massage at the Universidad Popular del Noroeste and also Ashtanga Yoga. He has worked with Will Swanson-Trisha Brown Dance Project, Mikhail Bahrysnikov White Oak, Rami Levi, Will Menter, José Antonio Orts, Roberto Olivan Enclave Companyia de dansa, Another Dance, Leonardo Santos, Pierre Bastien, Gustavo Ramirez, Nandayure Harley Ramesh Tajal Pablo Coello, Carlos Ramirez, Patrik of Bana, Inma Rubio, Cirque du Soleil, etc.. As a dance teacher he is invited by many schools, universities and companies with an international profile, developing workshops in different schools, universities, theaters, festivals and cities, such as the Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona, Deltebre Dansa Workshop, the Spaf festival in South Korea, Lithuania, Santiago, Chile and Costa Rica. In Galicia he has been guest choreographer and rehearsal director of shows produced by Galician Choreographic Centre. He is co-founder and advisor of the project Neodans (Audience Award at the 2007 Seville). Currently he is working parallely on his artistic career and on his studies of Ashtanga Yoga, massage and osteopathy.

DYNAMIC YOGA is a technique that works body, mind and spirit all together. It is a discipline that searches for an organic balance between our environment and our bodies. It is a useful tool for people working with the body though yoga deepens in the body awareness, improving our health, strengthens the body at the  muscular level and maintains strength and flexibility. The execution of various physical exercises, a correct breathing and a continuous dynamic movement makes this technique an excellent method for people interested in the universe of movement …

QUIGONG is a structured and scientific method, and is designed to preserve health, for the construction of choreographic phrases accompanied by a rhythmic run, to do breathing exercises, self massage, regulated organs, executing movement from a different perspective, and regulate the CHI or the body energy inspired by the ancient Chinese practice gymnastics. It helps to improve our health, and while dancing we use our energy as an expressive element of communication at the same time that we improve our physical and emotional health and our quality of life. Both activities, yoga and quigong are treated from an artistic perspective and from the dance and creative movement too… Those are not only specialized classes in Ashtanga and Quigong methods, but the material used in the class comes from these ancient techniques, being the body the guide to approach the world of movement and to share methods for physical and mental wellbeing.

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RAAKESH SUKESH

Kalaripayattu

Raakesh Sukesh (India). He was born in Kerala, South of India, 27 years ago. He grew in the midst of the traditional heartland, surrounded by lush greenery rich with ancient physical traditions and spiritual lifestyles. He started as a Bollywood dancer/choreographer and have worked in many south Indian movies. Raakesh formally began his training in Kalaripayattu when he was nineteen years old. He underwent years of rigours training under well-known Kalaripayattu grand-masters of Kerala (Dil sagar, Ranjan Mullarat and Sathyan Gurukkal). He also was being trained in contemporary dance at the same time along with Kalaripayattu. His focus during the Kalaripayattu training was mainly on body movements than the combat aspect as he wanted to create his own form of expression. Philosophically, he sees Kalaripayattu as an analysis of human body’s possibilities through movement.  Kalaripayattu as a martial art form involves rigorous training of the body and mind; this is achieved through various endurance, flexibility and focus building movement exercises. After his training in this form his dance became more natural in intent, highly energised, controlled, perceive advanced body intelligence and efficiently utilize raw physical energy. His teaching emphasizes on intricacies of movements to get to the core of the mind/body connection, enabling the expression more fluid.  He has been teaching Kalaripayattu for contemporary dancers for the past 4 years in many parts in India and across Europe (PARTS summer studio, Sidi Larbi Company, Jean Guillaume weis’s creation Drums and dance ritual, many dance spaces in Holland etc…)

KALARIPAYATTU is a Dravidian martial art from the Indian state of Kerala. One of the oldest fighting systems in existence, it is practiced in Kerala and contiguous parts of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka as well as northeastern Sri Lanka and among the Malayali community ofMalaysia. It was practiced primarily by the Nairs, the martial caste of Kerala, and also by some other castes like Nadars, Ezhavas and the Mappilas. Kalari payat includes strikes, kicks, grappling, preset forms, weaponry and healing methods. Regional variants are classified according to geographical position in Kerala; these are the northern style of the Malayalis, the southern style of the Tamils and the central style from inner Kerala. Northern kalari payat is based on the principle of hard technique, while the southern style primarily follows the soft techniques, even though both systems make use of internal and external concepts. Some of the choreographed sparring in kalari payat can be applied to dance and kathakali dancers who knew martial arts were believed to be markedly better than the other performers. Some traditional Indian dance schools still incorporate kalari payat as part of their exercise regimen.

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DAVID ZAMBRANO

Flying low

David Zambrano (Venezuela). For over 25 years, David Zambrano has been a monumental figure in the international dance community, and his passion for cultural exchange continues to influence his work. Living and making work in Amsterdam and teaching/performing internationally, Zambrano is an ambassador and liaison across many borders, bringing together artists from all over the planet for his projects. An inspiring teacher, thrilling performer, and innovative choreographer, Zambrano has contributed generously to the field of dance in ways that have influenced many and impacted the dance world from several angles. His development of the “Flying Low” and “Passing Through” techniques are among his recent innovations that have helped to lead improvisational dance into an exciting future. Many of his projects have continuously influenced Zambrano’s pedagogic methods, keeping them fresh and interesting for the students from around the globe. He was recently awarded a Guggenheim Choreography Fellowship 2010.

FLYING LOW: This workshop focuses mainly on the dancer’s relationship with the floor. The class utilizes simple movement patterns that involve breathing, speed and the release of energy throughout the body in order to activate the relationship between the center and the joints, moving in and out of the ground more efficiently by maintaining a centered state. There is a focus on the skeletal structure that will help improve the dancers physical perception and alertness. The class includes partnering work and movement phrases, which explore the primary laws of physics: cohesion and expansion. The class begins in stillness and students are asked to read their body in a standing position. They are urged to connect their entire body with the environment: the air, floor, and the energy of others, forming an interconnection by just standing. When you are standing, the whole room is standing. This stillness jumps to running and passing through each other, running forward backward and around creating a dance web. The highways of the room are warming up. When you are moving, the whole room is moving. The body is constantly spiraling, whether running or standing. These spirals help the dancers into the floor and out of the floor. These spirals already exist; this workshop focuses on finding them. The spirals help the dancer see themselves and the room from all sides. The dancer knows what is behind him/her as he/she goes forward. To activate these spirals, students locate their center and move all of their joints from this center. Arms, legs, hands, toes, elbows, feet become extensions of the center. The spirals propel the class all over the room, both on the ground and upright. This is the flying low technique.

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JOZEF FRUCEK & LINDA KAPETANEA

Fighting monkey

Jozef Frucek (Slovakia). He studied at the Academy of Music and Drama Arts in Bratislava. As a dance teacher and choreographer has collaborated with the Dance Centrum Jette Belgium, the RITS Brussels Art School, DOT 504, Prague, Archa Theatre, Royal Flemish Theatre KVS,-SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance and Budapest State Dance School. Jozef has been a member of NOW-LAST Wim Vandekeybus with creations: Blush and Sonic Boom.Currently working in the research program called “Fighting monkey” which consists in implementing the methodology of martial arts in the trials and risk prevention.

Linda Kapetanea (Greece). She licensed in the Greek State School of Dance. She studied at Merce Cunningham Studio, Movement Research and Dance Space in New York, where she also worked with the choreographer Irene Hultman. In Greece has danced with several companies, among other Sine Qua Non or Horeftes. She formed part of the company ULTIMA VEZ-WIM VANDEKEYBUS with the creations Blush, Sonic Boom and Pure. During the past three years has been invited to teach at SEAD (Salzburg), Budapest State Dance School, dance studios and DOT perfect 504 in Prague.

Since 2006, both are professors at the State School of Dance and RootlessRoot founding members, who have created “Sudden Showers of Silence,” “Hold Fast” installation “is burned tree before visiting Athens next summer,” ”100 Tears Wounded” and “UNA” (Unknown Negative Activity).

FIGHTING MONKEY is a way of clearing up and listen and applying the basic principles of internal martial arts practice and the compression speed, union membership and monitoring. We focus on understanding the anatomical locomotive system, because without this knowledge it can cause unnecessary loss of energy and possibly serious injury. We will focus on the specific body weight, flexibility, strength. We will explore the prudence to the situations, knowledge of global dynamics, knowledge of the different energy levels and temperaments, knowledge of our limits, monitoring of eye movements, body, hands, feet colleagues to acquire the ability to read the intentions of body and mind, give weight to push and pull, climb and jump, manipulate, etc..

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ÁKOS HARGITAY

Body parkour

Ákos Hargitay (Austria/Hungary) was born in Budapest and is living in Vienna since 2006. Since 1988 he danced in the field of contemporary dance with various local Hungarian, Austrian and international dance groups and choreographers such as Eszter Gál, Willi Dorner, Sebastian Prantl, Tanz*Hotel, Sasha Waltz & Guests, David Zambrano (Ven/NL) for the Ballroom Project in NYC, Scott Wells in San Francisco, Vicky Shick/Joanna M. Shaw/Alan Good from NYC. Currently he is an artistic director at the Move On Dance Studio/Vienna for a dance education program called CONdance. He is teaching Contact Improvisation and contemporary dance & composition at CONdance. He has been teaching dance at Anton Bruckner Private University Linz, SEAD Salzburg, Tanzquartier Vienna, Conservatory of Vienna, Company Willi Dorner, MMS Budapest, Dance Conservatory Györ and the City Ballet Company Pécs, Workshop Foundation Budapest, L1 DanceLab Budapest, Call Arts L.A. a.o. In 2000 he has established the first weekly Contact Jam in Budapest together with Michaela Hargitay. The Company Two in One was founded in 1996 by Michaela Hargitay (AT) and Ákos Hargitay (AT/HU). Their work has been presented at various festivals and theatres such as Susan Hess Studio (Philadelphia), Aerowaves (The Place, London), Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), Judson Church (NYC), Mains d’ Cuvres (Paris), Opening Doors Wales (UK), Tanzquartier Vienna, Imagetanz Vienna, dieTheater Wien, Tanzsprache and Neuer Tanz (Vienna/WUK), Unidram Festival Potsdam, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Wagon Halle (Marburg-Germany), Contemporary Dance Festivals in Luxembourg, Poland, Latvia, the Ukraine a.o. Their full-length evening production “free fall” was premiered in 2003 in cooperation with Tanzquartier Vienna and Szene Bunte Wähne Festival. Prizes and residencies include: 1999 ArtsLink Award (USA) and Suitcase Fund, Residency at the DTW in New York, 2001 Artist in Residence at the Mains d’Oeuvre in Paris, 2005 Artist in Residence at the CCL Linz, 2006 Budapest, 2009 Artist in Residence at SEAD, 2006 Budapest Fringe Award for the Best Performance and in 2010 Freerunning & Bodyparkour nominated for Stella10 – Performing Arts Prize for a Young Audience.

BODYPARKOUR: Contemporary Dance & Urban Acrobatics. Body as Obstacles, Obstacles as Body!? What is Bodyparkour? Bodyparkour describes & research the parallels and the crossover between contemporary dance, capoeira movement and the different kind of urban acrobatic forms like parkour, free running, tricking, b-boying is. Based on the Global Dancing Method, aim is to experiment with an intentional shift inside of very same movement to recognize the connection between different dance-movement styles. Focussing on: the correct usage of the head/tail connection and integral body movement, inspiring our self by animal movements, dancing with the impact of falls and crashes into rolls and slides, working with the effect of gravitation, spirals and curves and more. In this training we do special exercises that prepare for this physically demanding form of movement and we learn short dance and acrobatics passages. The movement quality is reminiscent of the comic action hero Jacky Chan. Everyone is welcome, whether dancer, circus or sport-expert or those who practice parkour, tricking or capoeira, who are seeking forms of movement that contain all these elements or who would like to try out an acrobatic dance style and has hunger for deeply physical dance!

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ANTON LACHKY  ”Tono”

Puzzle’s work

Anton Lachky “Tono” (Slovakia). Born in 1982, Anton started to dance at the age of 5, in the folk dance company Maly Vtácnik. He continued his dance education at the J.L.Bellu Conservatory in Banská Bystrica, where he collaborated with friends and also participated in M.A.P.A. (Moving Academy for Performing Arts). From there he went on to train at the University of Bratislava in 2001, followed by further training at P.A.R.T.S., headed by A.Teresa de Keersmeaker (Belgium). Anton became member of Akram Khan Company in March 2004 and followed long international tour of “MA” (48 countries all over the world) for two years. As a choreographer, Anton Lachky created the pieces: “Blue Moon”, “Water in the Mind” and “The Trip”, which premiered in Belgium; as well as Twice Read, Heaven is the place,Softandhard. His teaching activities are wide ranging: in Slovakia (Mimikri dance group Prievidza, Conservatory J.L.Bellu Banska Bystrica) Exchange program Birmingham, Theatre Sadlers Vells (London), South Corea dance academy (Seoul), Impulz tanz festival (Vienna). He also teached in France, Spain, Finland, Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, UK and Georgia. In Belgium, his activities encompass teaching and workshop guidance at DCJ – Dans Centrum Jette (Belgium) at Terpsichore, centrum voor Dans en Beweging (Belgium), among others. Anton Lachky is co-founder of Les SlovaKs Dance Collective. They created their first piece “Opening Night” in 2006 and premiered it in October 2007.

PUZZLE’S WORK: My class and my work are based on pleasure from dance, excitement. Work with coordination including all body and pushing your limits of speed. Isolate: While entering the space with phrases, do not forget any part of your body and try to speed up. Joy: Have pleasure in what you do but don’t forget the work part while having fun. Get excited but don’t let excitement take of your technic. In PUZZLE WORK Workshop, I will show the participants my way to create the material, how to go deep into the movement and complexity of how designed movement can be.

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PETER JASKO

Play-ground dance

Peter Jasko (Slovakia). He was born in 1982 in Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia. He took his first dance classes at the folk dance company Dumbier Slovakia, where he stood 11 years. From 1996 to 2001, Peter studied and graduated at the Conservatory J.L.Bella of dance, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. He continued his highier education at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava before entering at the international school of dance P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels (2002), under the direction of Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker. His professional experience ranges from dancing with different international artists and companies such as Zuzana Hajkova ,Opera Banska Bystrica, ASpO, Company Roberto Olivan, OXOXOX – Juri Konjar, G. Barberio Corsetti & Fattou Traore, Company Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (MYTH creation 2007), as well as performances and collaboration with other international artists. Since 8 years, Peter is collaborating with David Zambrano as a performer, and also as an assistant for his classes and workshops such as Rabbit project, 3 flies went out at noon, 12 flies went out at noon, Soul project, Morning Dogs Dancing Day Piggy Night (assisting) Brazil, MA – ZA – DA – MA – Brazil. In 2001 and 2005, Peter participated in a Dance Web Schoolarchip Program organiezd by IMPULSTANZ dance festival. His teaching experiences started in 2002 and at the moment he is teaching in many dance studios, dance and circus schools and companies in Belgium, Slovakia, Holland, Norway, Spain, Slovenia,Switzerland, Austria, New York He collaborates regularly with Terpsichore, centrum voor Dans en Beweging (Belgium), Costa Rica. He created several pieces: Nurofen-1999-SR, Sextet-2000-SR; and for circus school FLICK “4 seasons” 2006 –IT- R.Magro, ESAC-2009-BE-R.Magro. Peter Jasko is co-founder of Les SlovaKs Dance Collective. They created their first piece “Opening Night” in 2006 and premiered it in October 2007.

PLAY-GROUND DANCE: My class is based on a very powerful physicality related to the floor work and the vertical landing. The focus of the class is to develop movement sequences at different levels – from standing to the ground, changes in balance and supports from different body parts and even the work on handstand. My inspiration comes for living every single moment in my life and every emotion I have fully. The class begins with a very energetic exercise that causes an awakening of body and mind. After slowing down we’ll focus on other exercises that will connect to the sequences which will end the session. The ultimate goal is to give support and avoid the fear to the movement in a playful context. I want to work from our animal instincts to develop and explore the different possibilities to generate movement. I also want to develop confidence through the group building safe conclusions from difficult situations.

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MARTIN KILVADY

Dancing slow and small

Martin Kilvady (Slovakia). He was born in 1974 in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, where he graduated from secondary school. Subsequently, he enrolled in a program for teacher education in contemporary dance at the Comenius University in Bratislava, the School of Music and Dramatic Arts where he received his “Master of Arts”. Choreographers and teachers who most influenced his further development as a dancer are Jan Durovcik, Miroslava Kovarova and Libor Vaculik. From 1992 to 1996, he was a member of the Torzo Ballet Company in Bratislava and performed as a free lancer in several productions of the Slovak National Theatre from 1995 to 1996. In 1997 he joined the Magyar Fesztival Ballet in Budapest for one season. During the summer of 1997 he became a member of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s ROSAS dance company, in Brussels. He danced in “WOULD”, in the reprise of “MIKROCOSMOS” and “ACHTERLAND”, and contributed to the creation of “JUST BEFORE”, “DRUMMING”, “I SAID”, and “IN REAL TIME”. During these years with ROSAS, the teachings of David Zambrano and Chrysa Parkinson widened his dance horizons. Between 2001 and 2004, he collaborated with choreographer Roberto Olivan in the creation of “NATURAL STRANGE DAYS” and “DE FARRA”. In the season 2002-2003, he worked with circus company Rital Brocante. Since 2003, he has been a member of Thomas Hauert’s company ZOO, performing in “FIVE”, “MODIFY”, “MORE LESS SAID SONGS“, “WALKING OSCAR”, “PUZZLED” and “ACCORDS”. Martin started to teach dance classes in 1991 and since 2001 has been preparing training programs for dance companies ROSAS, Ultima Vez, and Charleroi Danse, guiding workshops at the schools of P.A.R.T.S, at DCJ – Dans Centrum Jette (Belgium) and CDC Toulouse, and teaching open classes at Impulstanz Festival Wien. He teaches regularly at Terpsichore, centrum voor Dans en Beweging (Belgium). Martin Kilvady is co-founder of Les SlovaKs Dance Collective. They created their first piece “Opening Night” in 2006 and premiered it in October 2007.

DANCING SLOW AND SMALL: During the workshop we will work through movement and stillness with these principles:

• EXTEND and EXPAND – lengthening, stretching, creating more space in the body,extending and expanding from the centre of the body towards the outside
• UNLOCKING – unlocking the body that the movement can freely travel through, letting the weight of the body flow down in order to ground yourself, unlocking the breathing
• DANCING – dancing is for me a clear sensation, different from exercising or moving. it includes fun and taste, rhythm and dynamics, imagination, emotions, dancing alone or with somebody
• YIN-YANG – i use this Chinese principle to explain the work with interconnected and interdependent complementary opposites. active-passive, stillness-movement,contraction-release, boredom-fun.

To work on these principles we will use open dancing as our working tool, our own sensations for clarity and understanding and music as our dance partner. I would like to inspire you in building up your own dance technique, that can be practised during you are dancing and performing. My teaching is based on what I learned from others and became my own. I am teaching what I am excited about and working on at the moment.

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MILAN HERICH

Falling, rolling, bowling

Milan Herich (Slovakia). Born in 1980, Milan started his first dance steps in the Slovak traditional children dance company Dumbier, where he stood 11 years. Graduated in 2000, his studies at the Conservatory J.L.Bella in Banska Bystrica made him collaborate with Zuzana Hajkova (Let me speak with my body 1, 2, 3 & 4). After school, ‘Mino’ continued his work in the professional company “Dance Studio”, lead by Z.Hajkova (Forbiden places, About Dwarf Nosalko, Trois, I didn’t write you for a long time). He has also been collaborating with choreographers from Slovakia and abroad (M.Kozanek, Z.Bacova, M.Polakova, T.Mantel). In september 2002, he left the University of Arts in Bratislava to enter the international school P.A.R.T.S., in Brussels for 2 more years. Mino joined Ultima Vez and Wim Vandekeybus for Puur, creation 2005. In 2007 he joins Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui to create “Myht”. His teaching experience started after school by giving classes in Ljubljana (Agon program), Amsterdam (David Zambrano), Wim Vandekeybus studio, Slovak conservatory and Elementary school of dance in Slovakia. He collaborates regularly with DCJ – Dans Centrum Jette (Belgium) and Terpsichore, centrum voor Dans en Beweging (Belgium). Since 2000, Milan assists David Zambrano’s classes and workshops (Impulstanz Vienna) and he is permanently collaborating at his work: 12 flies went out at noon, 3 flies went out at noon, Rabbit project, Soul Project. Milan Herich is co-founder of Les SlovaKs Dance Collective. They created their first piece “Opening Night” in 2006 and premiered it in October 2007.

FALLING, ROLLING, BOWLING: The material of the class will mainly be moving through floor work and low squatting positions.  The aim is to alternate between arches and spirals of the body in all directions possibly imagined.  The class will start with exercises in which we will work on using the flexibility of the body to discover different movement possibilities, developing into dance phrases based on the exercises.  The idea is to move through space by isolating the upper and lower body parts from your center so that a swinging action of the body is created.  The suspension and momentum of the swing will help us to play around with rhythm as well as keep the movement round, fluid and spiraling.  Although the arms will be part of the dance, we will try to avoid contact with the hands on the floor to help us move, except when necessary.

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MILAN TOMÁŠIK

Let’s dance

Milan Tomášic (Slovakia). Born in 1981 in Slovakia, Milan currently lives and works in Slovenia and Belgium. He studied dance at Conservatory J.L.Bellu in Banska Bystrica and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In 2004 he graduated from P.A.R.T.S, the international dance school in Brussels directed by Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker. In 2001 he participated in Vienna’s ImpulsTanz Festival with a Dance Web scholarship and went on tour with the Dutch company MAPA (Moving Academy for Performing Art). Milan Tomášik has been working with several artists including Jackie Gray (NZ), Katarína Mojžišová (SK), Iztok Kovač (SLO), Mala Kline (SLO), Tomáš Krivošík (SK), Snježana Premuš (SLO), Maja Delak (SLO), Barbara Novakovič Kolenc (SLO) and Alexander Gottfarb (S). In 2004 he received the Prize of the City Prievidza (Slovakia) for representing contemporary dance at home and abroad. In 2006, he created his own solo “Within” with original music by Tomaž Grom and light design by Davor Balent. It was a production of PTL (Ljubljana Dance Theater). In May 2008 he created a trio “Baga-Basta”, together with Alexander Gottfarb and a musician Nikolaus Herdierkerhoff. 3NITI, a women trio, was premiered in December 2008. Milan is interested in the meaning and source of dance; this fuels his collaboration with Cortesia, an ensemble for renaissance music and dance. His teaching experiences include giving classes for professional companies like En-Knap, Štúdio Tanca, PTL, x.IDA, The Place, as well as for summer workshops and festivals in Prague, Zvolen, Antwerp, Leuven, and Brussels (namely Ultima Vez). He teaches and gives workshop on a regular basis at DCJ – Dans Centrum Jette (Belgium) and Terpsichore, centrum voor Dans en Beweging (Belgium). Milan Tomášik is co-founder of Les SlovaKs Dance Collective. They created their first piece “Opening Night” in 2006 and premiered it in October 2007.

LET’S DANCE: We start with an exercise focusing on lengthening in all directions at the same time. Using our own way of moving we pass through 3 different stages: pausing, moving and dancing. Our goal here is to bring the body and the mind together, so that every little part of the body gets warm. When it gets hot, we pump it up. We go for it fully, not forgetting anything we have just done before. We explore the speed, the dynamics and apply quality restrictions. We train and challenge the way we dance; we search for enjoyment not only in easy, but also in difficult movements; we strengthen the body to be ready to do anything; we explore the space within ourselves and the group. Technique meets performing.

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BRUNO CAVERNA

Playing in the extremes

Bruno Caverna (Brazil). Bruno is an internationally recognized 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 diverse 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 is an energetic floor work combined with elements of partnering. Its overall concern is to research and explore the inherent polarity present in every life situation as the fundamental and inspirational element of self-expression. It starts with a very intensive training, integrating a vast array of techniques such as: gliding and floating along the floor, breath’s control aligned with a variety of physical qualities, application of twisting and spiral principles as well as techniques of headlong movement in a fluid dynamic. Along its development participants are constantly instigated to let go of the thinking mind in order to connect into subtler mental states, facilitating, eventually, an expression that comes genuinely from the source.

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LAURA ARÍS & JORGE JÁUREGUI

Partnering work

PARTNERING WORK: A fluent physical communication depends on the awareness of the shared balance in a couple. There will be set up situations where you get to fully trust the other, to act under risk, speed, power, etc. We will use recognizable human relationships that will help us to create images, to define energies and invent stories.

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BEN “FURY”

Drunken turtle

Ben “FURY” (Marocco-Belgium). He started exploring and developing his own breakdance technique in La Galerie Ravenstein, a very popular street in Brussels. His first experiences in mixing breakdance with contemporary dance happened with the companies HUSH HUSH HUSH, K’DAR, and TUPAC with whom he has toured in Australia. With the choreographer Fatou Traore he collaborated on the performances “Vegemad” and “Passages”. With Joanne Saunier he created “Petite piece pour voix et gestes” with the music of Antoine Prawerman. Ben “Fury” has been one of the founders of the group Mad Spirit with whom he has performed in several European cities. With this team he realized several improvisations, together with the jazz-funk-ethnic banc Greetings From Mercury and Aka Moon. He also made improvisations with Aka Moon and DJ Grasshopper in Amsterdam. Talking about his background as a breakdancer, Ben “fury” was part of the third generation of the famous Dynamics Team. With them they won the first award in the Benelux Competition 2001 and other awards in Europe. in 2003 Ben joined ENCLAVE Dance Company with the production “DE FARRA”, directed by Roberto Olivan. He also has been teacher in Spain in the last editions of International Contemporary Dance Festival DELTEBRE DANSA. During the creation “Bitches Brew” of ROSAS DANCE COMPANY Ben “Fury” was invited to teach their dancers. He also has been creating and performing “Il Colore Bianco” in Torino (Italy) for the cultural Olimpics Torino 2006. The director was Giorgio Barbieri Corsetti and the choregrapher Faotu Traore. He has danced in several occasions for TV spots in Belgium and Morocco. At the present time he is collaborating and touring the performances “Siegfried Forever” and “Bayruth FM” from the collective WOOSHIN’MACHIN, directed by Mauro Pacagnella. He also co-created with Harold Henning the performance “Leopoldo” produced by Charleroi Danses. Having known SIDI LARBI for some years, he currently dances in “BABEL” of SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI and DAMIEN JALET.

DRUNKEN TURTLE. Ben “Fury” proposes a mix between dance and acrobatics on the ground with a quick, dynamic energy and from there create longer sequences and to adapt them to the music. The following step is to appropiate the material and transform it through the manipulation and the improvisation. The second part of the class is based on learning a movement sequence in which these concepts are applied and they are actually repertoire drawn from the work of SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI and DAMIEN JALET. The sequence belongs to the show “Babel” in which Ben “Fury” himself was part of the creation.

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TONY VEZICH

Release the beast

Tony Vezich (New Zealand). Tony studied contemporary dance in the New Zealand School of Dance, and then went on to spend the next a decade and a half working as a dancer and choreographer in Germany. While living in Germany, Tony formed the Temper-Temper Dance Company and was its artistic director and choreographer. He currently has more than 40 choreographies to his name. Tony devised and developed the “Release The Beast” dance technique, which he has taught throughout Europe. He currently holds the position of head lecturer of contemporary dance technique at Iceland Academy of the Arts, … and is simultaneously and secretly, reforming Temper-Temper.

RELEASE THE BEAST: I spent many years developing a dance vocabulary for my choreographies. The base of which is extremely physical. As the vocabulary solidified a hazardous side effect appeared. Injuries. From that moment on I began to develop exercises that would help protect my dancers and I from serious injury. It has developed into a complete technique, which I believe can be used for far more than the original intention. I have named it “Release the Beast “ technique. There is a heavy emphasis on floor-work and a certain sequential order of the body in relation to the origin of movement initiation. Another defining factor is how to find a powerful centre, how to use this powerful centre to move greater distances within space, especially in relation to the floor and the lower region of dance space.

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SAMUEL LEFEUVRE

Dancing through states

Samuel Lefeuvre (France) was born in 1981. After a dance education with Michèle Latini and Claude Béatrix in Caen, and in the CNDC in Angers, he moved to Brussels to work with Michele Anne De Mey (“Utopie” and “Raining Dogs”). He then joined Les Ballets C. de la B. to dance in “Wolf” by Alain Platel, and started a long-time collaboration with Lisi Estaras (“La Mancha”, “Patchagonia”, “Primero/Erscht”, “the Gaza Monologues” and “SOUP”). During “Wolf” he met Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier who invited him to join the dance collective Peeping Tom, for the creations “Le Salon” and “Le Sous-Sol”. He is now part of Groupe Entorse, a french collective created by musician Raphaëlle Latini with whom he develops his own choreographies. Their first collaboration “ACCIDENS (ce qui arrive)”, with light designer Nicolas Olivier, premiered in Falaise (F) in November last year. They are currently touring this project, while working on a new one, “Haptein”. In parallel, Lefeuvre is working on a duet with Peter Jasko, member of Les SlovaKs Dance Collective.

DANCING THROUGH STATES: The whole class will evolve around the concept of states. Some purely physical (like «shaking», «being numb») and some more theatrical («sleepy», «drunk», etc.). We’ll work on using our imagination and letting it influence our dancing, to trigger unusual movement patterns and then be able to control and reproduce them. From the moment we’ll start warming up to the rendition of a phrase that we’ll learn during the week, we’ll explore these states to widen our range of movement, get away from a purely technical aspect of dancing, and have fun!

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Creation “DELTEBRE DANSA 2011″

with ROBERTO MAGRO

Roberto Magro (Italy). While studying psychology at the University, Roberto started his carrier as actor with puppet and children theater. When he discovered his clown’s ability, he started to attend several courses with, among others, Scuola Sperimentale dell’Attore (Italy). Together with his brother Fabio (now priest) he creates the clown couple Paco and Lucio and their show had been performed more than 330 times, both in television shows, street performances and children theater. From 1996 to 1998 he studied at the Ecole National du Cirque Annie Fratellini and together with his partner t, in 1999, they joined the French contemporary circus company “Les Oiseux Fous”. He performed in three shows of the company as clown with a particular specialization on Spanish rope (the company toured in Scandinavia, France and Belgium). In 200created the company “Rital Brocante”, based in Bruxelles. The “Rital Brocante” had a strong collaboration with dancers of ROSAS and many musicians. In 2005 he became Artistic Director and teacher of Circus Acting at the Flic Circus School in Turin. In the same year he signed his first direction of a circus performance for the French company “Albatross” (“Monteau de Vision”). Since then, he has done more than 15 creations both for professional circus companies and Circus schools as well (like Flic in Turin, Rogelio Riveo in Barcelona, Esac in Bruxelles, Crescer e Viver in Rio de Janeiro). Quite intense are also his workshop activities in circus schools, for company and in several artistic residency centers in Europe and South America. In 2010 he directed the open ceremony of the European Games of Eurhythmic Gymnastic (Turin 2010) and created the choreographies for different events and operas (like “Federico Secondo”, Rome Evening Night…) Starting from 2006 he collaborates as dramaturge for several contemporary dance companies (Enclave Dance Company, Les SlovaKs Dance Collective, Kike Peon, Budapest Dance Festival) and from 2007 he teaches at DELTEBRE DANSA (Spain). In the same year (2007) he created the Contemporary Circus Festival of Valcovera (Italy) that now is at its fifth edition. Roberto is since always engaged in the social field as clown and trainer, and continues to share his enthusiasm with children, circus performers, dancers, trainers in Kosovo, Burkina Faso, Capo Verde, Argentina, Brazil, etc.

CREATION “DELTEBRE DANSA 2011”: A group of participants will become part of the “Creation Deltebre Dansa 2010″. This group will be training diving into the dynamics of a dance company and showing by the end of the workshop the result of this process of creation. The schedule of this workshop will be discussed personally with ROBERTO MAGRO himself once it is defined this group of participants. This result of the creation sill be shown the last Saturday of the event.