WORKSHOPS AT STUDIO ALTA / 9.–10. 6. + 13. 6. 2012
Don’t miss the workshops that will take place again at Studio ALTA in frame of the accompanying programme of the festival TANEC PRAHA 2012 (28. 5. – 29. 6. 2012).
The workshops are designed to professional dancers and dance students and are co-organised by Tanec Praha and ALT@RT.
Sa / 9. 6. / 14.00–16.00
Su / 10. 6. / 12.00–14.00
Charlotta Öfverholm (SWE)
We / 13. 6. / 10.00–12.00
Ty Boomershine (USA)
Venue:
Studio ALTA, U Výstaviště 21, Holešovice, Praha 7
You can get there by trams number 5, 12, 14, 15, 17, Výstaviště stop.
You enter the stock area by a black gate in between a building and car bazaar.
Reservations:
A reservation is needed by 7th June on the e-mail address karolina@altart.cz.
The capacity of the studio is limited!
Costs:
CZK 100
Charlotta Öfverholm
Charlotta Öfverholm’s class is formed by her background both as a highly techniqual dancer and as an actress and former DV8 Physical Theatre member. It starts with a physical and techniqual warm up with both floor work and barre , followed by choreographic phrases and variations, where dynamics changes from power to more lyrical movements.
Since the start of Compagnie Jus de la Vie in 1995, its founder and artistic director Charlotta Öfverholm has created over 20 productions that have toured around Europe, North and South America and Africa. Her work is physical dance theatre with depth, irony, brutality and humor. Öfverholm is a graduate of UCLA in Film/TV/Video and from The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Los Angeles and Alvin Ailey's American Dance Theatre. She has worked as a dancer with numerous choreographers and companies in America and all around Europe among them DV 8 Physical Theatre / Lloyd Newson, Bill T. Jones Arnie Zane Company, Sean Curran, Complexions in NYC, Roberto Galván / Tanzcompagnie Giessen, Joseph Tmim / Toláda in Berlin, Ramon Oller / Metros in Barcelona, Robert Poole / Ballet Linz, Cie Corinne Lanselle in Paris. She has also extensively cooperated with Czech artists: a few years ago she co-worked with Czech dancer and choreographer Jan Kodet, in 2011 she created the choreography Found & Lost for the Czech contemporary dance company VerTeDance. She also choreographs films and documentaries, among them Bortkopplad and Holiday by Anna Duell.
Ty Boomershine
His class is framed by the dance technique of a Cunningham class as well as incorporating elements from the many choreographers he has worked with which allows for an engaged neutrality that is useful to navigate through various approaches to movement. His class focuses on rhythmic, spatial, and physical clarity, encouraging the use of mental as well as physical prowess. Leaving behind the idea of a fixed “front”, the class explores the use of all spatial directions and works with the concept of using the center of the body as a generator for movement, freeing the extensions of the body to work independently, while combining this with a sense of coordination and multi-tasking throughout the body.
Ty Boomershine was trained at the Fort Hayes School for the Performing Arts in Columbus, Ohio and earned his B.F.A. in dance from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. As a dancer he has worked with several young emerging artists as well as established companies, such as Merce Cunningham repertory ensemble, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Co., Gus Solomons Jr., Dance Works Rotterdam. Currently he co-works with Lucinda Childs Dance, arranging and developing workshops, tours, creative and educational residencies, and teaching. He has presented his own work for example at Movement Research in New York or at Holland Festival in Amsterdam. As a teacher Ty has taught the several academies, universities and festivals as well as at a number of dance companies, among them Dansgroep Amsterdam, Dance Works Rotterdam, Emio Greco | PC, Krisztina de Chatel and the above-mentioned Lucinda Childs Dance.
!We recommend a workshop with the British performer and the former member of the DV8 Physical Theatre Wendy Houston that will be held in Jun 4–8 within the ImproEvents Prague at Studio ALTA!
Closed workshop for students
Th / 14. 6. / 10.00–12.00
Ty Boomershine (USA)
M4m – m for mobility project (EU Culture Programme)
The reservation system will be specified.
Sa / 9. 6. / 10.00–12.00
Audition for dancers – new project with a foreign choreographer
As part of the Tanec Praha Festival, on 9th June, an audition for professional dancers. Four dancers will be chosen to take part in residencies organised by Tanec Praha as part of the M4m – m for mobility project. These 4-week residencies will be held in the Czech Republic and will be built upon close cooperation of a light-designer, a choreographer and four dancers/performers.
Sa / 9. 6. – Tu 12. 6. / Praha
Workshop for international promoters led by Yvona Kreuzmannová
The aim of the workshop is to share experience in organizing international events in the field of contemporary dance or other progressive art fields in ex-communist countries. How to create a new audience? How to explain to political representation the importance and necessity to bring contemporary artists to encourage, provoke and inspire domestic artistic scene? How to survive financial crisis? How to be a good mediator between traditional and contemporary world? These are some of the issues to be discussed during a meeting with Yvona Kreuzmannová, founder and president of Tanec Praha, held during the workshop.
Also, the participants will have oportunity to visit all performances of the international TANEC PRAHA 2012 Festival, they can take part in workshop for professional dancers with Charlotta Öfverholm and meet Tanec Praha staff to consult any aspects of festival organization – artistic (dramaturgy, program planning) as well as organizational (production, fundraising, PR).
M4m – m for mobility is an artistic mobility programme supported by European Commission and initiated by 7 cosignatories and 12 associated partners in order to facilitate encounters, exchange and common work between emerging artists and professionals from the creative and cultural world taking part in the different steps of an art production.
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Workshop for children in Prague
We / 6. 6. / 10.30
Constanza Macras (ARG) – workshop for students of the Elementary School V Zahrádkách, Praha 3
The workshop is part of the additional programme of the performance Open for Everything (CONSTANZA MACRAS | DorkyPark a GOETHE INSTITUT production).
With the support from:
Workshop for dancers in Pilsen
Th / 7. 6. / 18.00–20.00
Charlotta Öfverholm (SWE) – advanced
Sa / 16. 6. / 13.00–14.30
Lenka Vágnerová & Pavel Mašek / DOT504 – intermediates
Sa / 16. 6. / 16.00–18.00
Lenka Vágnerová & Pavel Mašek / DOT504 – advanced