ELEMENTARY PROGRAMME - WEEK 4

Contemporary technique class with Jacob Storer

This elementary contemporary technique class is based around weight transfer and anatomical approaches to access coordinations within the body to move with ease and delicious autonomy. Engaging personally and working in pairs to access certain tools of manipulation and sensation, the class will develop with concepts of investigation, moments of improvisational research, and culminate with a movement phrase that incorporates these principles, connecting from the internal space to the space that surrounds and supports us. In other words, a dance class, let’s have some fun.

Jacob Storer (US)

Jacob Storer graduated in 2016 from P.A.R.T.S in Brussels, Belgium and joined Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2017. He is currently based between Brooklyn and Brussels collaborating in projects regarding somatic embodiment, movement, music, and semantics of language. He has previously taught at NYU, Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi, and P.A.R.T.S..

Vinyasa yoga with Ori Flomin

Ori Flomin invites you to join him to this Vinyasa Yoga workshop to discover your own unique path and take this beautiful journey to help soften self-limiting mindsets and welcome joy into our hearts. Over the years, Ori has been consistently amazed to feel how the mind opens in the practice of attention to physical and mental awareness that Yoga provides, and how this creates space for healing and a stronger self. Through the class, practitioners are encouraged to intuitively follow their hearts and deepen their understanding and knowledge of their body and its connection with the mind, breath and spirit. Strong emphasis will be put into our continued awareness of alignment and breath through the various postures, which will enable us to find new possibilities while maintaining a calm center that does not add stress to our body and mind.

Ori Flomin (US)

Ori Flomin’s choreography has been presented in NYC at Gibney Dance, Dance Theater Workshop, PS122, Movement Research at Judson Church, as well as internationally at venues in Austria, Japan, Germany, Australia, Norway, and Israel.

Ori has taught in the New York and the United States for Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, Rutgers University, Movement Research, Gibney Dance Center, Princeton University, The New School, SUNY Purchase and Barnard College. HIs international teaching took him throughout the world to many companies, festivals and schools such as ImpulsTanz (Vienna), P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), Sasha Waltz Company (Berlin), Culberg Ballet (Stockholm), SEAD (Salzburg ), London Contemporary School of Dance (London), Ballet de Lorraine (France), and many more.

Ori was the assistant to Artistic Director of Stephen Petronio Dance Company, for which he also danced from 1991-1999. He also danced with Neil Greenberg, Helena Franzén, Molissa Fenley, Maria Hassabi, Kevin Wynn and Michael Clark.

Ori is a certified Yoga teacher and Shiatsu therapist.

Rosas Repertoire - Drumming with Taka Shamoto

Drumming is undoubtedly one of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s most fascinating choreographic works: a dazzling dance set to a powerful score for percussion by the American minimalist Steve Reich. In her choreography, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker preserves the spirit of the score and at the same time enriches it: just as in the music, the complexity of the choreography arises out of a single phrase of movement to which endless variations in time and space are applied. It is only when the drums fall silent and the bodies come to a standstill that the spectator realizes what he has witnessed: a stunning journey, a wave of pure dance and pure sound, a vortex of life energy.

Taka Shamoto (JP)

Taka Shamoto was born in 1975 in Sendai, Japan. At the age of three, she started dancing at the Sendai City Ballet School. For the next ten years, she was taught by Masako Ono. At sixteen, she entered the Balletschule der Hamburgischen Staatsoper John Neumeier in Germany, an education in which classical technique and composition work played a key role. After her three-year education in Hamburg, Taka Shamoto focused on contemporary dance. In 1995 she joined the contemporary dance school P.A.R.T.S. and joined Rosas two years later. She danced in the revivals of Woud and Achterland and contributed to the creation of Just Before, Drumming, I said I, In Real Time, Rain, April me, Bitches Brew / Tacoma Narrows and Kassandra, and the revival of Mozart / Concert Arias. In 2007 she collaborated with Grace Ellen Barkey & Needcompany for The Porcelain Project. In 2010 she performed in Jan Decorte’s Tanzung. Currently she is performing in Avdal and Shinozaki’s projects Field Works-office, Borrowed Landscape, nothing’s for something and as if nothing has been spinning around for something to remember.