Teachers & Workshops
Zoom | Friday 18:00-20:30
Put your weights down, let it roll, empty your hands, deep breath, stop, drop, lie, shake, shout loud, flow…
Zoom, is a moving contemplation about freedom, freedom in the body and freedom in the mind!
About respect, forms and space with a focus on zooming the attention in and out, anchoring and expanding our being in the same time.
A practice about NOW, founding total and deep awareness and eureka discoveries. Recognizing, following, choosing internal impulses to become an external expression. The class is a ground for exploration, for physical and creative virtuosity, a meeting point to stretch inner and outer boundaries.
A place for go for it!
Judit Kéri is a hungarian dancer, performer, choreographer, theater maker and an experienced english and german speaking teacher in dance, theater, yoga and meditation. She finished her education in Hungary and studied in a number of major European cities (a.o. Amsterdam:SNDO) with many renowned teachers and performers of contemporary and new dance technique, contact improvisation and improvisation, composition, somatic practices, and self discovery.
She participated in and organized various festivals and seminars worldwide. Over the last 17 years, she has been teaching internationally: children, young adults, adults, older people and people with special needs in nature and in studios. She has also performed in solo, duet and in group works in Europe, Israel, USA, Canada, India and in Australia.
Since 2007 she is based in Vienna, Austria where she is part of a performing arts collective. She also performed in festivals like: at the “Wiener Festwochen”, at the Festival “KOISK59″ and at the “Festival Regionale”. She is teaching a.o.: at the ImpulsTanz, Move On, TQW Vienna, SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance).
Point of contact | Saturday 10:30-13:00
Contact improvisation – naturalness and a simple game. The whole point - in the Simple.
The skill to interact with simplicity and trust it – opens in us ability to act spontaneously, following the logic of the physical world.
Archimedes said: “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world”. We will learn how to find these points of support, these fulcrum with partners, which will allow us to find our dance: with the people, with the floor, with space, with ourselves…
We will work with the points of contact, meet them again, and feel their different nature.
Viktoria Ignatenko. Dance for me is an opportunity to experience the integrity of the world, to feel life in all its diversity, and at every moment receive a new experience. I like to play with attention, focus - watch as it switches and what might happen next. This is an infinite space for the game, deepening, improvisation, knowledge, joy, silence and simplicity - that exists independently of the mood and circumstances. This is feeling of freedom, of flight!
For the first time I have met with the CI in 2006, began to dance in Vilnius. Now dance and lead classes in Belarus (Molodechno, Minsk), in southern Russia.
Have practiced CI with: Lena Plyutova (Belarus), Julija Melnik (Lithuania), Nina Martin (USA), Iwona Olszowska (Poland), Mans Erlandson (Sweden), Isabelle Uski (France), Johan Nilsson (Sweden), Maria Grudskaya (Russia), Viktor Ruban (Russia)
Fallen Angels – Sticky Wings | Saturday 14:30-17:00
CI adds wings and allows rising off the ground. What prevents us from enjoying the flying phase fully is fear. Anxiety against falling and meeting the ground not only disturbs the joy of flying but also significantly shortens the flying phase. Fear raises tension and impairs the body’s adaptability in extreme/unknown situations. However, falling is nothing else but the final phase of flying, as pleasurable as it may. Developing the ability to seize this moment, we will let ourselves enjoy, risk and further our limits. Sticky wings is a technik for finding conection between centers thru our tools like hands, legs and other and make them our wings. Through CI we will be exploring various falling and sticky hands techniques which have origins in martial arts.
Michal Ratajski – started his adventure with movement at the age of 14, overwhelmed by his passion for traditional martial arts. Fascinated with Contact Improvisation since the very first meeting with this movement/dance/art sport/form, he has been actively spreading CI and organizing workshops all over Poland. He has founded CI webpage: www.contactimprovisation.eu, unofficial association Greycoloured Shamans and KIJO group – they explore with CI (interested in roots of this form), Improvisation and physical dance.
According to him, JAM makes the best CI “teacher” since it is a limitless source of inspiration, knowledge, experience, and moments of here and now. A dance meeting, a MEETING IN A DANCE is the best learning practice for him enabling CI fans to share CI experience. Michal explores the influence of music on CI Dance. Recently he has got involved in contemporary dance and capoeira.
Michal has trained CI with: Ray Chung (USA), Jess Curtis (USA/Germany), Danya Elraz (Israel), Milan Kozanek (Slovakia), Frey Faust (USA), Alicia Grayson (USA), Mirva Makinnen (Finland), Tal Avni (Israel), Martin Keogh (USA), Charlie Morissey (GB), Adrian Russi (Switzerland), Alicia Grayson (USA), Marco Volta (Italy) and Nancy Stark Smith (USA).
Contemporary Dance: Jacek Owczarek, Witold Jurewicz, Leszek Bzdyl, Josef Frucek (workshop), Marco Volta (coaching)
Creating Possibilities | Sunday 10:30-13:00
We used to learn different patterns which we later on use in our dancing. After a while contact could seam that it’s just the same going on. I start to question ‘what if…?’ In ‘Creating Possibilities’ each of us will be creating patterns by using our creativity to surprise partner, experience, and freedom of the way we move. Surprises will activate and develop faster
thinking-following-leading-supporting-weight sharing and the most important TRUST. Also connecting verbalising with dance will allow you more clearly understand about following and leading, understand partner’s intentions and patterns so it will be easier to ‘read’ partner’s ways of moving and this will help to stay in smooth-continuing contact.
I will keep the practice quite open that everybody would find the way to share creativity and understanding of exploration of their new ways…
This practice is based on my experience in CI and I want to share how I understand dancing contact with surprises, different ways of approaching partner, different ways of connections that it becomes performance on the spot…
Dovydas Letkauskas. Dancer, performer, researcher, thinker, positive being…
Studied dance and theater in Lithuania, contemporary dance and research in Finland, danced through the Europe, India. Mostly dancing everywhere he goes.
