PRE-INTERMEDIATE PROGRAMME - WEEK 4

Contemporary technique class with Ori Flomin

Ori's class encourages students to increase their movement possibilities and take risks in dancing by maximizing the benefits of the warmed-up body. The warm-up moves smoothly from floor to standing with a strong focus on anatomy to strengthen connections of correct alignment with an increase of fluidity in the joints. Dancers will develop an understanding of the connections between their body and the floor, and will learn how to use momentum and breath to explore full dancing with the least amount of muscular tension.

During phrase work, dancers will learn how to incorporate information from the warm-up to execute more complicated sequences, and attention will be paid to controlling the use of breath to maintain a strong center from which one can explode into the space.

Ori is known to approach his class as a dialogue with the dancers and include the use of imagery and humor to allow the dancers to relate personally to the given material and find their own voice through the experience in class.

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.

Vinyasa yoga flow with Maria Clara Villa Lobos

In this class participants will be guided through a sequence of asanas (postures) that might vary from day to day, putting focus on the synchronization of breath and movement, as well as in alignment. This dynamic form of yoga allows practitioners to warm up the body from inside out, building up strength and flexibility in a safe and skillful way. Through the continuous flow of postures, Vinyasa flow induces a focused and balanced state of mind that can improve concentration and reduce stress.

Maria Clara Villa Lobos (BR)

Brazilian born Maria Clara Villa Lobos is a dancer, teacher and choreographer based in Brussels, directing her own company since 2000. After dance studies in Berlin and P.A.R.T.S (from 1995 to 1997), she worked with different choreographers such as David Hernandez, Sasha Waltz, Willi Dorner and Thomas Lehmen. In 2000 she created her first group piece in Brussels (XL, because size does matter) which launched her career as a choreographer.In 2010 she graduated as an Iyengar yoga teacher, after a three year training with Willy Bok in Brussels. She has been teaching dance and yoga to children and adolescents since about ten years at Dancing Kids.

A project workshop with Dominique Duszynski

Acting body, dancing body
During this workshop, we will look at different ways of proposing with the body and with dance, in solo composition and group work. Just like taking a breath, the consciousness moves in waves, swings, gets lost, follows different ideas, be they joyful or intense, in a fluid dance, invisible, making you forget your restless body. The limit between the 'acting body' and the 'dancing body' will be explored within different contexts. We will combine gestures and dance to instigate new ways of questioning our being. While investigating a range of possible presences, we will use musical supports to create contrasts and oppositions. During this workshop, we will develop material for a new creation.

Dominique Duszynski (BE)

Dominique Duszynski performed with Pina Bausch’s dance theatre from 1983 to 1992. She worked on such revered pieces as: The Rite of Spring, Kontakhof, Blaubart, Nelken, Arien, 1980, The 7 Deadly Sins, Auf Dem Gebirge, Two Cigarettes in the Dark, Viktor, and Ahnen among others. Since 1988 she has taught for institutions and companies in Europe and abroad. In 1992, she began to research and collaborate with different dancers and actors with whom she has created a number of works. She has also performed for JF Duroure and Pippo Delbono. She took part in the film Die Klage der Kaiserin by Pina Bausch, Berlin-Jérusalem and Golem by Amos Gitai. She has taught at P.A.R.T.S in Brussels, Belgium since the school’s founding in 1995 until 2015. In 2007, she created the solo Fuga and the year after danced in the trio Barroco. The piece toured widely from France to Brazil as well as Belgium, Italy and Germany. In 2009, she composed a new solo entitled Luz for the 9th edition of the festival Voix de Femmes in Liège, Belgium. In 2010, in collaboration with the light designer I. Corten, she created a site-specific piece along the river in Liège entitled Sous les ponts. The same year she participated in Nina Beier’s concept piece ‘The complete works’, which was performed during the Stuk Festival in Leuven, Belgium. In November 2011, she presented her duo Riff for the 10th edition of the festival Voix de Femmes in Liège then in Brussels, Rio and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The next winter she performed in the piece Si je meurs by R. Hoghe in Liège. During the summer of 2014 she created the short piece Walkabout in 9 days with 9 dancers, which was performed in Belgium and Holland. Besides her own work she regularly collaborates artistically with several different choreographers. In 2018, she was busy collaborating to Innocence, a circus show and performing her latest creation Hymne. In 2019, she was busy with 2 productions Velvet, a piece for 10 dancers and Background Stories, a solo as a work in progress. For autumn 2020, she is preparing a new solo Else.