Contemporary dance fusion workshop

Contemporary Dance Fusion Workshop, Judith State

This workshop is for all those passionate about exploring contemporary dance and its adjacent forms.

“Working at WASP throughout the past two years with people who had started their meeting with dance from a zero point and observing their remarkable capacities of adaptation and evolution, I decided to continue these workshops with a new module in which the material will be structured progressively, having a more intense approach and being finalized with a public presentation. The participation in the final presentation will be optional, but students will be encouraged to experiment what could be their “first meeting with the audience”.

The workshop will include technical exercises, improvisation, freedom of expression, play, relaxation and breathing exercises, combining contemporary dance with jazz, hip-hop and elements of musicality, which will bring the dancers in front of their own selves, free, stripped of thoughts and ready to express their feelings through movement.”

Useful information:

This module consists of 8 classes.
Enrollment tax: 350 LEI.
Enrollment tax for students: 200 LEI
Payment will be made in the first day of class.

Dates:

Tuesday: April 7 | OPEN CLASS | 19:00-21:00
Tuesdays: April 21, 28, May 5, 12 | 19:00 – 21:00
Thursays: April 23, 30, May 7, 14 | 19:00 – 21:00
Friday: May 15 | PUBLIC PRESENTATION | 19:00 – 21:00

The number of participants is limited.
Registration: contact@waspmagazine.com, with e-mail subject: CONTEMPORARY DANCE FUSION Workshop Registration.
Deadline: April 20, 2015

Judith State| BIO

Judith State is a professional dancer whose mentality is directed towards a complex and diverse approach of movement as well as a harmonious fusion between musicality and introspection. Permanently searching for new experiences, she is interested in traveling, meeting and working with choreographers whose styles vary from contemporary to jazz, street jazz and hip-hop.

She travelled to New York where she studied four months at Broadway Dance Center in the frame of the international training program ISVP. She also followed training programs in London, Goteborg, Germany and Italy, having the chance to work with choreographers like Brice Mousset, Massimo Gerardi, German Jauregui, Inaki Azpillaga, Laura Aris, Francesca Harper, Dana Foglia, Billy Bell, Chris Hale, Derek Mitchell, Luam, Candace Brown, Jared Grimes, Chris Judd, Neil Schwartz sau Jared Jenkins. In 2014 she received a danceWeb scholarship in the frame of ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival through a Wild Card from 4culture.

As a performer she danced in productions of the National Theater from Bucharest and of the Operetta Theatre ”Ion Dacian”. At the moment, she collaborates with Odeon Thether in productions which include musicals, contemporary dance performances and theate pieces. She is constantly working with Răzvan Mazilu as a performer and an assistent of choreography .

Judith is the founder of DaDans Project and FlashMob Romania, she co-choreographed the first season of Romanian TV show X-Factor and in 2014 she realized the first Romanian-German co-production with subsTANZ – company directed by Massimo Gerardi. Invited by 4culture, she developed in the frame of the Romanian Platform of Contemporary Dance and Performance 2013, a series of contemporary dance workshops for the students from Choreography High schools from Cluj and Bacău. Since 2013 she is constantly teaching contemporary dance classes for professionals and beginners at WASP – Working Art Space and Production.

More information about Judith State and her projects: http://www.judithstate.com

Atelier Dance Film

Dance Film Workshop, Simona Deaconescu

This workshop is the first from a series of interdisciplinary workshops called I.D.M.P.A (Innovative Directions in Multimedia and Performing Arts ).

The workshop proposes the exploration of theoretical and practical knowledge of experimental dance film, a genre which is known as cine-dance, video dance, dance for the camera, screendance. During this workshop we will learn the basics involved in the creation of a choreography for the camera as well as cinematographic notions (framing, camera angles, lighting, camera movement, editing etc.), presented in a practical way on a filmed dance material. The students will learn to make a shooting script, to plan a shooting and to handle a camera and an audio recording system. All this exercises will be explored in the work-room in such a way that each theoretical aspect can be understood through practice. During the workshop the students will be encouraged to either create a new choreography for a movie or adapt an existing one. Those who don’t have dance experience can choose to film and direct a movement material created by their colleagues. The students will work in groups with the purpose of creating a one-shot dance film of one minute.

In cinematography, a one-shot movie implies a shooting with no pauses of the apparatus and no cutting in the post-production. This means that the director has to make up a very precise plan of the shooting mode and the camera movement, the only intervention possible in the editing being the realization of the soundtrack either by adding music or sounds in post-production or by recording sound on location.

The process of realizing the film will be discussed and applied during the courses at WASP and the shooting will take place in an exterior environment. The students will work in organized groups from the first classes in such a way that each one will have the possibility to shoot, dance for the camera or do both, depending on their personal desires. At the end, each one will present a dance film directed by himself or in collaboration with another colleague. The maximum number of co-creators of one movie is three. We encourage interdisciplinary collaborations between performers, movie makers and composers.

The organizers provide access to the devices needed for the development of the courses and the final presentation ( camera, sound recording system, lights, video projectors, computer and soft for editing) as well as access to the media library. The students can bring materials and personal devices. The coordinator of the workshop will invite specialists from the field who will facilitate the improvement of the technical and practical abilities of the students.


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

  • Envisioning Dance on Film and Video – Judy Mitoma, Elizabeth Zimmer, Dale Ann Stieber
  • Making Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen – Katrina McPherson
  • Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image – Douglas Rosenberg
  • Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image – Erin Brannigan
  • Broken Screen: Expanding The Image, Breaking The Narrative – Doug Aitken, Noel Daniel
  • Maya Deren: Incomplete Control (Film and Culture Series) – Sarah Keller
  • A History of Experimental Film and Video – A.L. Rees
  • Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine – Kathryn Ramey
  • Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions (Short Cuts) – Michael O’Pray
  • 100 Ideas that Changed Film – David Parkinson
  • Telling Time: Essays of a Visionary Filmmaker – Stan Brakhage
  • Moviemakers’ Master Class: Private Lessons from the World’s Foremost Directors – Laurent Tirard
  • Films of Yvonne Rainer (Theories of Representation and Difference) – Yvonne Rainer


The organizers provide access to printed English versions of the books listed above. WASP – Working Art Space and Production also offers for playback dance films which made history and contemporary pieces presented in festivals across Europe and USA. Part of the movies will be projected and discussed during the Monday meetings, on March 9 and March 16 from 19h. The students will receive a list of the available movies from WASP Media Lab.

Useful information:

Workshop Dates:

  • Saturdays: March 14 | 15:00 – 17:00; March 21, 28, April 4 | 15:00 – 19:00
  • Wednesdays: March 18, 25, April 1,8 | 18:00 – 22:00

Special Activities Dates:

  • March 23, 30 : dance films view and discussions | 19:00 – 21:00
  • April 5 : exterior shootings | 8:00 – 20:00
  • April 6,7 : selection and editing at WASP | flexible schedule 10:00 – 18:00
  • April 9: PUBLIC PRESENTATION | 19:00 – 20:00

Enrollment tax: 450 LEI.
Enrollment tax for students: 300 LEI
Payment will be made in the first day of class.
It is possible for payments to be done in two installments: 50% in the first day of class, 50% in the 4th day of class.

The number of participants is limited.

Who can participate?

The workshops are addressed to performers and creators from the field of performing arts (dance, theater, puppetry, performance etc.), visual art and music, as well as students and emerging artists. The course is open for self-learning persons, with no specialty studies, but which are interested in experimenting or specializing through an alternative system of professional development.

Registration: contact@waspmagazine.com with email subject DANCE FILM Workshop Registration. Please add in the body of the mail, in maximum 10 lines, your interests in the field of performing arts, visual art or music and, if it is the case, the experiences you had in these fields. The participation is not restricted in any way by studies or experience, this information being relevant only for an efficient lay-out of the group.

Deadline: March 11, 2015.

See what is I.D.M.P.A and all the workshops here.

Simona Deaconescu | BIO

Simona Deaconescu studied choreography and film direction in parallel, her aesthetic approach being interdisciplinary and inspired by performers with special abilities and bold ideas.

Simona is the artistic director of the Tangaj Dance collective and has created some of the most courageous choreographic pieces in the Romanian contemporary dance scene of the past two years: “0001 | the dream factory”, “Silent Places” and “0002 | birdville”, as parts of a serial project that researches dance in relationship with technological development. In the summer of 2014, Simona received one of the most coveted European scholarships, the danceWEB scholarship offered by the Life Long Burning network in the frame of ImpulsTanz International Dance Festival Vienna and two artistic residences: one at WASP — Working Art Space and Production, offered by 4 Culture and finalized with a public presentation(“Dispatched), and one in the New York studios of Battery Dance Company, to complete the making of the Birdville choreographic interactive extravaganza, with a joint team of Romanian and American dancers, a show presented in the frame of eXplore dance festival #9.

Her desire to combine dance and film took shape in 2013, through the making of the Silent Places short, which enjoys a broad distribution at worldwide festivals of the genre. The film had its European premiere at “Loikka Dance Film Festival” (FIN), opened the “POOL – International TanzFilmPlattform” (DE), was projected as part of “The European Film Festival” (RO), “International Screendance Festival” (USA), “Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema” (USA), “Ammutinamenti Film Festival” (IT), TanzFilmPlattform (DE), San Francisco Dance Film Festival (SUA), Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (RO), Leeds International Film Festival (UK). The film received an honorable mention prize at San Francisco Dance Film Festival.

Until 2013, when her attention was directed entirely toward the development of an interdisciplinary artistic collective, Simona was a co-founder of the “Secția de Coregrafie” (The Choreography Department Association), along which she realized projects like “DNA” (the first online dance magazine dedicated to choreography arts) and “Dance District” (a curatorial program dedicated to the young generation of choreographers and performers). Simona is actively involved in the development of contemporary art and is preoccupied by dissolving the barriers between various artistic approaches, in the fall of 2014 being part of the X Platform team (a new media arts exhibition, held at WASP — Working Art Space and Production).

Simona participates in workshops with both local and international choreographers, deepening innovative dance techniques and ways to stimulate creativity alongside Anne-Marie Cunningham, Ivonne Ramos, Natașa Murariu, Konstantin Mihos, Anna Wehsarg, Mat Voorter, Yael Orni, Kira Kirsch, Gerald Kurdian, Bruno Caverna, Ko Murobushi, David Wampach, Chris Haring, Doris Uhlich, Alva Noe, Saju Hari, Laura Aris, German Juaregui.

She started choreographing at 21, realizing the university projects: “Time Quartet” (an adaptation after Requiem, by Hanoch Levin), a project realized under the high patronage of the Royal House, “Alice in Lies Land”, presented at CNDB and at the “Ludovic Spiess” Experimental Studio for Opera and Ballet of the Romanian Opera in Bucharest, for which she receives the prize for the best choreographer at the UNATC Graduating Gala, as well as her masters piece, “here_somewhere”. She realized the choreography for the “Omega Rose” feature film (directed by: Alexandru Dorobanțu), the “Maia” short (directed by: Adela Cotimanis) and the “1940” personal experiment (supported by Media Pro Pictures studios), collaborating in parallel as a screenwriter with the Media Pro and Intact Media trusts.

At the invitation of curator Igor Mocanu, she realizes a choreographic lab in 2014 – “Border Body” (presented at the Allegra Nomad Gallery), along some of the most beloved performers in Bucharest, as well as the visual artist Dilmana Yordanova. Currently, Simona focuses on developing the Tangaj Dance collective.

More information about Simona Deaconescu and her projects:
http://www.tangajdance.com
http://www.danscontemporan.net

D.I.M.A.P - Simona Deaconescu

I.D.M.P.A, Simona Deaconescu

I.D.M.P.A or “Innovative Directions in Multimedia and Performing Arts “ implies a series of progressive workshops having as target the assimilation of composition techniques in interdisciplinary art, bringing forward the dance, the movie, the performance and the installation. The students will accumulate knowledge about the rapport between movement and video aesthetics through practical exercises and theoretical information. Each workshop will put on the table innovative tendencies of the contemporary multimedia art, each student having the possibility to create his own works in the specific format proposed by the coordinator (Simona Deaconescu) and to present them to the public.

At the end of the program, the participant will have gained abilities of choreographic and performative composition, editing and video composition, projecting of video materials, realization of “site-specific” and media installations, development of miniature live cinema and dance films. In accordance with the thematic of each workshop, Simona will invite specialists from Romania or from abroad, who will offer practical and theoretical knowledge of the field through informal presentations and creative laboratories.

I.D.M.P.A is a course integrated in GROWASP – Ground for Research an Education, a program organized by 4culture and WASP-Working Art Space and Production with the purpose of providing new perspectives for the young artists with or without specialty studies and the desire to integrate them in the international context of contemporary art development by offering training sessions in fields which are not available in the institutionalized educational system.

The organizers provide access to the devices needed for the development of the courses and the final presentation ( camera, sound recording system, lights, video projectors, computer and soft for editing) as well as access to the media library. The students can bring materials and personal devices. The coordinator of the workshop will invite specialists from the field who will facilitate the improvement of the technical and practical abilities of the students.

I.D.M.P.A WORKSHOPS:

#1 | Dance Film: choreography and cinematography
#2 | Multimedia performance: light, movie, movement
#3 | Video art: body, space, time
#4 | Multimedia installation: the choreography of elements
#5 | Site-specific installation: mechanical ballet and organic ballet

Simona Deaconescu | BIO

Simona Deaconescu studied choreography and film direction in parallel, her aesthetic approach being interdisciplinary and inspired by performers with special abilities and bold ideas.

Simona is the artistic director of the Tangaj Dance collective and has created some of the most courageous choreographic pieces in the Romanian contemporary dance scene of the past two years: “0001 | the dream factory”, “Silent Places” and “0002 | birdville”, as parts of a serial project that researches dance in relationship with technological development. In the summer of 2014, Simona received one of the most coveted European scholarships, the danceWEB scholarship offered by the Life Long Burning network in the frame of ImpulsTanz International Dance Festival Vienna and two artistic residences: one at WASP — Working Art Space and Production, offered by 4 Culture and finalized with a public presentation(“Dispatched), and one in the New York studios of Battery Dance Company, to complete the making of the Birdville choreographic interactive extravaganza, with a joint team of Romanian and American dancers, a show presented in the frame of eXplore dance festival #9.

Her desire to combine dance and film took shape in 2013, through the making of the Silent Places short, which enjoys a broad distribution at worldwide festivals of the genre. The film had its European premiere at “Loikka Dance Film Festival” (FIN), opened the “POOL – International TanzFilmPlattform” (DE), was projected as part of “The European Film Festival” (RO), “International Screendance Festival” (USA), “Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema” (USA), “Ammutinamenti Film Festival” (IT), TanzFilmPlattform (DE), San Francisco Dance Film Festival (SUA), Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (RO), Leeds International Film Festival (UK). The film received an honorable mention prize at San Francisco Dance Film Festival.
Until 2013, when her attention was directed entirely toward the development of an interdisciplinary artistic collective, Simona was a co-founder of the “Secția de Coregrafie” (The Choreography Department Association), along which she realized projects like “DNA” (the first online dance magazine dedicated to choreography arts) and “Dance District” (a curatorial program dedicated to the young generation of choreographers and performers). Simona is actively involved in the development of contemporary art and is preoccupied by dissolving the barriers between various artistic approaches, in the fall of 2014 being part of the X Platform team (a new media arts exhibition, held at WASP — Working Art Space and Production).

Simona participates in workshops with both local and international choreographers, deepening innovative dance techniques and ways to stimulate creativity alongside Anne-Marie Cunningham, Ivonne Ramos, Natașa Murariu, Konstantin Mihos, Anna Wehsarg, Mat Voorter, Yael Orni, Kira Kirsch, Gerald Kurdian, Bruno Caverna, Ko Murobushi, David Wampach, Chris Haring, Doris Uhlich, Alva Noe, Saju Hari, Laura Aris, German Juaregui.

She started choreographing at 21, realizing the university projects: “Time Quartet” (an adaptation after Requiem, by Hanoch Levin), a project realized under the high patronage of the Royal House, “Alice in Lies Land”, presented at CNDB and at the “Ludovic Spiess” Experimental Studio for Opera and Ballet of the Romanian Opera in Bucharest, for which she receives the prize for the best choreographer at the UNATC Graduating Gala, as well as her masters piece, “here_somewhere”. She realized the choreography for the “Omega Rose” feature film (directed by: Alexandru Dorobanțu), the “Maia” short (directed by: Adela Cotimanis) and the “1940” personal experiment (supported by Media Pro Pictures studios), collaborating in parallel as a screenwriter with the Media Pro and Intact Media trusts.

At the invitation of curator Igor Mocanu, she realizes a choreographic lab in 2014 – “Border Body” (presented at the Allegra Nomad Gallery), along some of the most beloved performers in Bucharest, as well as the visual artist Dilmana Yordanova. Currently, Simona focuses on developing the Tangaj Dance collective.

More information about Simona Deaconescu and her projects:
http://www.tangajdance.com
http://www.danscontemporan.net

yoga for art practitioners, growasp2015

Ashtanga Yoga for Art Practitioners, Irene Zaarour

Ashtanga Yoga is a dynamic style of hatha yoga which uses a constant flow of movement and a specific type of breathing for going from one pose to another. Along with “Bandha” (the energetic part), Ashtanga concentrates the attention in one point, helping us to focalize on our interior state, in such a way that we become able to reach meditation.
The meetings from this first module are designed for beginners as well as for those who are “comfortable with their bodies in motion”, because we will carefully and deeply approach breathing, body alignment and the energetic part helped by focusing – all these elements brought together in movement.

Irene Zaarour has been practicing yoga and meditation since 1995 and from 2002 she is teaching Hatha Yoga. Taking part in a multitude of workshops across the world, Irene fell in love with Ashtanga Yoga ten years ago. Since then, she retreats, almost annually in India, where she learns from her teachers Ashtanga, Sanskrit and chanting. In Romania, she dedicates her time to presenting Ashtanga as a multi-faced mirror in which each student can find his personal approach.

Useful information:

This module consists of 5 classes.
Enrollment tax: 200 RON
Enrollment tax for students: 150 RON
Payment will be made in the first day of class.

Dates:

Friday: March 13 | 19:00 – 21:00
Thursdays: March 12, 19, 26, April 2, 9 | 19:00 – 21:00

Participants are required to bring along a thin mattress or a blanket. The number of participants is limited.

Registration: contact@waspmagazine.com, with e-mail subject: YOGA Workshop Registration.
Deadline: March 9, 2015

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Human Nature / Now / Birthday Suit — three contemporary dance performances

16.11.2014 / 19:00 / WASP
Free entrance.

WASP — Working Art Space and Production supports young creators, UNATC students and graduates, by involving them in various programs and projects, as well as by offering free necessary space for creation and presentation.

Thus, we invite you to discover the newest, most motivated and willing to perform generation of  UNATC choreography graduates in the Romanian cultural space. The three performances are UNATC productions, developed under the coordination of univ. dr. Raluca Ianegic and prof. dr. Valentina de Piante Niculae.

Human Nature (20’)

Choreography: Georgeta Corca
Distribution: Georgeta Corca, Denis Bolborea, Simona Dabija, Andrei Iancu
Sound Design: Denis Boborea
Scenography: Cristian Stănoiu

Human Nature is a performance that confronts human social and metaphysical nature on one side, and the animal nature on the other, in a trial to unveil human fundamental characteristics everywhere. Which are the ways of thought, feeling and action that people have the natural tendency of having, independently from the influence of culture? Perhaps, what separates us most from other species is the instinct to transcend. Dreams, art, magic, dance, love, mysticism — all witness this fundamental instinct of human nature.

The performers seem to be controlled from the outside, by the means of a remote control or, contrary, moved by inner, organic forces. In search of their own nature, they suddenly teleport from one moment to the other, from one space to another, from one character to another.

The performance won the best choreography award in ALT — The National Contest of Choreography 2014 and at the UNATC Alumni Gala 2014.

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Now (20’)

By: Alexandra Bălășoiu
With: Georgeta Corca, Alexandra Bălășoiu, Silviu Mititelu, Denis Bolborea/Vlad Pavel

Now is a performance that speaks about perception and about how each creates their own, unique world, about the world as it is seen and interpreted as a succession of games that do not escape the rules of perception. Now is created from a “dance of the beholder’s senses and mind” and talks about a world lived as such.

This performance was born from the need of bringing the invisible on stage and was built through both searching and denial processes at the same time. It asks a series of fundamental questions about human existence and is far from claiming to have found an answer.

The performance speaks:
• About the truth that lays in the sincerity of the invested emotion,
• About the fact that some things cannot be understood or explained,
• About the naivete that enriches us and that we do not want to let go,
• About the fact that we are capable of anything,
• About the beauty that lays in the eyes of the beholder and in his power to change reality,
• About the fact that we are not a fixed form and we cannot be comprised in definitions,
• About listening to your own intuition, body and the messages it sends here and now, as an anchor and means of orientation in the confusion of thoughts.

The performance received the prize for best choreography at the UNATC Alumni Gala 2014.

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Birthday Suit (20’)

Direction and choreography: Anita Polici
Distribution: Andreea Anghel, Alexandra Bălășoiu, Georgeta Corca, Anita Polici
Sound Design: Vlad Radu
Scenography: Alexandru Nimurad

We made a pact, packed our bags and left running for identities. We tried on many, we were walking from shop to shop and from street to street; everything was heavenly, she was beside me in all those moments, of either loneliness, ecstasy, confusion or shame. When she was upset, she would hold me close and I knew that she was right… sometimes I despised her, but I wanted to accept her with each of her scars…

The majority of us people, identify with our own mirrored reflection, with the physical body wrapped in its skin, over which a new story imprints itself with each day that goes by. Thus, we can watch our bodies by reading the stories that they evoke! But what about that feeling of estrangement, when you can’t find yourself and feel as if participating in a marathon, sometimes sprinting, without reaching any finish line? In this continuous fugue, in this social game, you wake up in a different “shell” each time, becoming part of a different picture, accompanied by different characters, each of them “dancing” you through all the feelings, offering you new identities. Each of us either heard, thought or said the saying “put yourself in my skin”!

The fierce desire to find our own identity, uniqueness, makes us experience these “shells” in the hope that we will achieve the archetypal shape / model / mold of creation.

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2014 Professional Training Program

WASP — Working Art Space & Production continues the Professional Training Program started in 2013, with a wide range of workshops led by Romanian and foreign professionals.

The program includes workshops, special guests, regular presentations and feedback sessions presented in a special format that aims to encourage the use of new, alternative, research and professional training methods, in which participants discover and develop their own skills.

The November-December 2014 workshops module consists of:

Those participating in the workshops program organized by WASP will benefit from a WASPer PASS, that includes:

  • free access to all shows presented at WASP throughout November and December 2014,
  • free access to the WASP media library (video archive, publications, dance & contemporary art books and magazines) throughout November and December 2014,
  • free space for research & experiments, in the time frame of November 15 – December 15. This will be granted on a first come, first served basis, in accordance with a set calendar agreed together with the WASP team. Our available studios are White Box and Black Box. The working schedule will be set in the 5 slots of 2 hours each comprised between 08:00-18:00 every day.

wasp boxes

The number of participants is limited. Participants who opt for all three adults’ workshops in November and December 2014 receive a 50% discount.
Registration: contact@waspmagazine.com.

Fotografie din spectacolul  „Ghost", în coregrafia Colette Sadler. Spectacol realizat în urma unui atelier pentru copii găzduit în cadrul secțiunii Stage & Playground - eXplore dance festival #9, 2014.

We Move The World — Contemporary Dance Workshop For Kids, Alexandra Bălășoiu

Movement is the most accessible component to an individual. The way we walk, sit or watch contain, in themselves, an infinity of information regarding our past, our present and our potentials. By incorporating intelligent motor schemes we release negative tensions, emotions and thoughts. In a world that bombs us with ready-made ideas and images, our body is a living archive and the only honest forward indicator. Feeling good in your own skin starts from knowing and mastering our bodies. Freedom of movement is fluidity and freedom of thought.

Increasingly more adults turn to contemporary dance classes or other educational body practices to release accumulated tensions and correcting unhealthy habits. The “We Move The World” workshop aims at educating a new generation to mentain and cultivate its body intelligence, creativity and curiosity specific to childhood.

“When a child plays, he puts the entire capacity of mastering and influencing reality into function.” (Jean Piaget)

Throughout these 5 classes we will build a different world together, that we will present to parents and to everyone interested in what a kids’ world means.

Alexandra Bălășoiu graduated from the University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest, the Choreography section in 2014, her graduation performance, “acum”, being awarded with the Prize for Best Choreography.

Over time, she had access to a wide variety of styles and approaches that have influenced her professional path. Under Raluca Ianegic and Valentina de Piante’s guidance throughout university studies she became gradually attached to somatic practices such as Body Mind Centering (BMC) or Feldenkrais and has developed her own style that involves improvisation, emotions and questioning.

In 2013 she presented “1-1” in eXplore dance festival #8, as part of the RO Platform. She was recently selected by the 4 Culture Association for a Life Long Burning Wild Card and took part in the ex.e.r.ce master program at CNN Montpellier, throughout the duration of an intensive workshop held by Deborah Hay and DD Dorvillier. Over time, she participated in workshops held by artists such as Baris Mihci, Lola Keraly, Alessio Castellacci, Francesco Scavetta, Inaki Azpillaga and Sergiu Matis.

As a performer, she was part of “0002 | birdville”, “Dispatched”, “0001_The Dream Factory” and the “Silent Places” short film (choreography: Simona Deaconescu), “Nu știu” (choreography: Andreea Belu), “Skinned – o expoziție vie” (concept: Alexandra Gîrbea), “Regina de Gheață” (choreography: Ruxandra Chelaru), “Birthday Suit” (choreography: Anita Polici), “The Man Parted The Sea To Devour The Water” (choreography: Silviu Mititelu), “Everything Is Connected” (choreography: Ana Iorga).

In her teaching practice, she aims to provide access to what was regarded as essential in her personal and professional development. When working with people as a choreographer or as a teacher, she aims to create a context in which they can explore ideas / questions / principles with freedom and courage, over which she guides their attention.

Useful information:
Module of 5 classes/group.
Enrollment tax: 150 LEI.

Payment will be made in the first day of class.

Classes are held Saturdays and Sundays, from 11:00-12:00, as below:

  • group 1 (6-10 years old): November 15, 22, 29 and December 6 and 13, 2014
  • group 2 (6-10 years old): November 16, 23, 30 and December 7 and 14, 2014

Apply at: contact@waspmagazine.com, with the e-mail subject: Contemporary Dance Workshop for Kids Enrollment.
Deadline: November 14, 2014.

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