CONTEMPORARY DANCE TECHNIQUE
Basic focus will be on participants personal body alignment. Class will start with 20 minutes warm up based on small inner dance to basic release technique exercises. Participants will focus on their own body posture by exercising somatic principles combined with exercises from experiental anatomy. After warm up we will put attention to train the spatial awareness (basic gazing, walking back and front, spiral running) and with special orientation to build understanding how to use floor in effective way (rolling, sliding, falling without injuries, going smoothly into the floor and up...). Participants will also get some written material on anatomy to get better visual understanding of how structure (bones) and “meat” (muscles) support each other. Gradually focus will move from personal body alignment to observation, sensation and understanding of “others” bodies. Shifting awareness on how to relate with others.. I will introduce basic principles of contact improvisation, with special focus on “light” partnering without implying weight. The range of possible connections between participants will go from mere sensation based contact (eye contact, closed eyes contact, following the center..) to more explicit use of touch and sharing “one body” experience. Participants will also learn from active imagination. Shifting their awareness from relationship (and possible reactions) on how to relate to your inner “small talk”. How to bring daily emotions, sensations, experiences and thoughts into disciplined training and use it effectively. Participants will now focus on expressing personal states. Where am I today? Who am I and can I show myself without fear of being hurt, neglected? How do I dance my weaknesses? How can my fragility become strenght? The range of exercises will go from working in pairs, detecting each others movement habits, improvising solos to emphatetic shadowing / repeating of movement seqeunces.
I finished BA in Cultural Studies with thesis on Astrology in Contemporary Western World and participated at workshop of Tibetan Magic Astrology with astrologer Gaia Asta. I chose to work, explore and develop in dance, which I understands as interdisciplinary field of artistic, scientific and spiritual practice. I am actively involved as dancer, teacher, organizer, producer, curator, networker and occasionally also a choreographer. In last 5 years,
I was leading and coordinating
Contemporary Dance Network Slovenia 2011-2013 http://www.sodobniples.si/;
co-curating and co-producing first CoFestival 2012 https://www.facebook.com/cofestivaldance;
coordinating Gibanica 2012 http://www.gibanica.eu/gibanica-slovene-dance-platform.html and
Pleskavica 2011 http://www.ficobalet.org/pleskavica2011.htm and
co-organizing and co-producing
16th festival City of Women/Between Past and Future 2010 http://www.cityofwomen.org/sl/content/2010
Most recent inquiries are body practices (chi gong, contact improvisation, somatic practices), embodiment of thoughts&emotions, exploration of new contemporary performative formats and nomadism in relation to urban rituals, new age practices and creating urban communities/ tribes. From these ideas grew this type and co-foundation of traveling&exchange dance festival http://www.ficobalet.org/Fico_Dance_Journey.htm
My recent studies and project involvments are : No Borders Project 2013 and 2014; Contact Journey Georgia 2013; Fičo training
Other educational workshops and studies I did: Passing Through, Flying Low, Qi Gong, Kundalini Yoga, Release Technique, Contact Improvisation, Derwish in Progress (With Ziya Azzazi), Osho Dynamic Meditation (with Goran Bogdanovski), Dance Movement Therapy (with Sylvain Meret), Experiental Anatomy (with Gill Clarke), Social choreography (with Sri Louise and Michael Klien); Dance and Disability - Body without a text (with Boris Čakširan and Karen Peterson); Artistic Leadership (with Klaus Ludwig, Gyorgy Szabo, Andrea K. Schlehwein); In Research of Innovative Mind (with Nina Božič and Dejan Srhoj); History of Contemporary Dance (with Rok Vevar);
I am also a certified Pilates instructor (license of Fitness Alliance of Slovenia).
In last 2 years I am developing :
Kontakt Kids - contact improvisation for children
Embodiment of Archetypes as a Tool for Dance Improvisation
Dance with Horses
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