GAVIN WEBBER (AUS) – BEYOND GONE

Gavin Webber is a choreographer, teacher and performer based in Coolangatta, Queensland and working between Australia and Europe. Gavin Webber started dancing late after many lost years spent hitch-hiking, skiing, writing, camping and studying. Eventually he decided to start making art instead and joined Meryl Takard’s Australian Dance Theatre and following that Belgian company Ultima Vez. Throughout his career Gavin has worked between Australia and Europe and was Artistic Director of Dancenorth from 2005 to 2009. He took the company from regional Australia to national and international touring and then left for Europe once again to join PVCtanz in Germany…

BEYOND GONE

This is a workshop about why we move and how we connect. It will focus on internal states that drive action with the proposal that through movement we transcend our own self-perception and judgement, freeing the body and the mind.
In the workshop we will be working on the origin of the dancing body beyond aesthetics. What motivates us (and by that I mean all of us, not just dancers) to move? Where does the desire come from and how is it communicated?

INAKI AZPILLAGA (ES|BE) – POWERFUL and FRAGILE

Inaki took the first step in Bask folk dance and his dance formation comprises Classical Ballet, Jazz, Modern & Contemporary dance. He worked with different companies and in a variety of productions in Spain, New York and France. In the 90s he joins the company Ultima Vez in Brussels where in the past 20 years he has been involved as dancer, choreographic assistant and teacher…

POWERFUL AND FRAGILE

Movement is the key tool of the work. These classes are directed to people interested in dance as an art of expression. Powerful and Fragile is a way to understand dominance applied to our relations with each other and the environment. This duality offers a large range of possibilities of interpretation. It’s impressive how easy is to mirror oneself on them.

DIONYSIOS ALAMANOS (GR) & DANAE DIMITRIADI (GR) – SHAPE SHIFTING

DIONYSIOS ALAMANOS

Born in Athens, Greece and raised in Zante Island, Dionysios Alamanos started his education at the School of Music and Arts of the Ionian Islands at a young age. He began experimenting with various styles of street dance and alongside his own research on movement, he studied at the National School of Dance, Greece…

DANAE DIMITRIADI

Born in Athens, Greece, and graduated from the State School of Dance, Danae danced s a member of Hellenic Dance Company for the production ‘’Open Frontiers’’ at the Athens Concert Hall and at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival choreographies by Akram Khan, Anton Lachky and Martha Graham…

SHAPE SHIFTING

The workshop’s objective is to find alternative shapes and movement languages through the exploration of speed applied to different movement techniques. We’ll start warming up bringing the center closer to the ground, building stamina and balance to find the explosiveness of the legs with repetitions of movement combinations that get each time more complex. We’ll then cross the space with material inspired by animals to strengthen the upper body and focus on inverted positions…

HYOSEUNG YE (KOR) – SPEECH

Hyoseung Ye danced for the Belgian dance company Les Ballets C de la B with Alain Platel (Since 2005~) for many years before founding BluePoet D.T.in 2013.In addition to using his rapport with European stages to facilitate exchanges between Korea and Europe,Ye has reached out to the North American market, promoting the beauty and philosophy of Korean dance…

SPEECH

1.We focus on self-monitoring, muscle training and flexibility through Yoga.

2.I’d like to share my body and body communication and energy through the basic improvisation of the work of Les ballets C de la B.

3.lastly I will give repertoire movement a part of Les ballets C de la B of Out of Context for Pina.

VANGELIS LEGAKIS (HK|AUS|UK) – EMBODIED UNITY

Vangelis graduated from Laban Center (London, UK) with BA in Dance theatre and MA in Choreography and holds a Masters in Buddhist Studies from Hong Kong University. He is the founder and the Artistic Director of Unity Space (HK), The Van-L Dance Company (London) and the Festival EPW amongst other projects

EMBODIED UNITY

is a fusion of Flying Low, Passing Through, Contact Improvisation, Experiential Anatomy integrating Chi Gong, Meridians. Yoga and breath work.