Please note: Schedule subject to change. Some substitutions may occur.
Class Descriptions (more coming soon)
A Contemporary Classic /M. Gorboulev (Uzbekistan/Russia)- Ballet helps to develop and maintain posture, beautifully shaped muscles and lines, coordination, stamina, and musicality - all of which are essential for the Contemporary (Modern) dancer. Every contemporary and modern choreography involves ballet steps - plié before any jump, a la seconde, saute, pirouette and many others.
This class will be taught as a foundation to efficient execution of contemporary dance vocabulary and will be divided into three parts, barre (45min.), center (25-30 min.) and jumps (15-20 min.) The combinations will be simple to enable repeating to become comfortable with them. The class will focus a good deal on crossing the leg front and back through out the class, being on the toes of the supporting foot, softening elbows and hands, stretching knees, and of course pointing feet. Although musical execution of the steps is very important in my combinations, we will rarely mark with music. I make an effort to address each student particular needs in the class and although an imperfectly performed combination is not the end of the world, it is important to work seriously on the given steps.
Partnering with all parts - (both intensive and evening tracks)/ Cyrus Khambatta (USA-WA) - This workshop, which Mr. Khambatta will teach throughout Europe this summer, will integrate elements of Contact Improvisation (CI) with elements of traditional partnering to create new and underutilized pathways in the body-to-body dialogue that are still intuitive and instinctual. In the CI realm, the workshop will focus on decentralized use of anatomic structural elements of the body to create more highly articulated, subtle and expanded surface awareness and multi-sensorial tracking. In the contemporary dance lexicon, we will address more traditional dance aspects by emphasizing recognition of inner emotive sensations as we explore extension, line, awareness of body shape, weight support patterns and inter-body architecture. And finally we will source from both to examine a palette of different ways of creating, crafting and experiencing a movement dialogue with a partner.
Biographies
Susanna Leinonen - FINLAND
Artistic Director - Susanna Leinonen Company
Susanna graduated from the Theatre Academy of Finland’s Department of Dance Art with a master’s degree in 2000. Four years later she received the Finland prize and the Dance Work of the Year award, and since 2008 she has enjoyed the security of a 5-year state grant for artists. Leinonen’s choreographies have been presented in a total of 17 countries around the world and her company is one of the most celebrated comanies of Finland.
Nicolas Cantillon & Laurence Yadi - SWITZERLAND/FRANCE
Artistic Directors - Compagnie 7273
Nicolas Cantillon is from Melun, Switzerland and Laurence Yadi from Argenteuil, France. After some experience as a musician, Nicolas Cantillon trained as a dancer at the Marius Petipa Dance Conservatory in 1989. Laurence Yadi received a dance scholarship and was admitted to the Alvin Ailey Dance Centre in New York.
Upon the completion of their respective trainings, Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon worked for companies such as Ballet J. Art in Paris and the Geneva company Alias, Gisela Rocha and Rui Horta… They have toured in Europe, Africa, America, Asia and the Middle-East. In 2006, they received.
Astad Deboo - INDIA
Astad Deboo is an Indian contemporary and Modern dancer and choreographer, who employs Indian classical dance forms of Kathak and Kathakali to create a pioneering fusion of Modern dance in India. He has performed throughout the world and was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1996 and Padma Shri in 2007, by the Government of India. Over the years he has collaborated with people; Pink Floyd at the Chelsea Town Hall in London, the Gundecha brothers, with Pina Bausch of the Wuppertal Dance Company, Germany, Alison Chase of Pilobolus, and with the Thang-Ta and Pung cholom dancers of Manipur. He has also worked with Tim McCarthy at the Gallaudet University for the deaf performing arts program in Washington, and the production “Road Signs” toured India in 1995, with a troupe drawn from Gallaudet and Deboo’s Indian students.
Katsura Kan - Japan
Kan is a native of Kyoto, is a Master Butoh artist among the ranks of Japan's first generation of Butoh. He performed with the seminal Butoh troupe "Byakkosha" (1979-1981) known for its austerity and integrity, rather than theatrical glamour. He is a celebrated solo artist, collaborative performer and choreographer. Kan has worked with what he calls "minority dancers" all over the world, in remote locations throughout Africa, Europe, South East Asia for the past 30 years, in addition to performing his creative works in cosmopolitan culture. Kan says, "I'd like to share with you unique movement from my dance work of nearly 30 years which I 've learned from many Masters, especially Butoh Founder, Noh Master of Kongoh School and Ben SUHARUTO in Jogjakarta in Indonesia. The body is a "spirit" that carries your ancestor's soul from the past to the future, a spirit who wears the costume called 'tradition.' I will guide you to find your costume through silent walk, rhythmic patterns and quality of movement for the sake of your own dance."
Oleg Gorboulev- Uzbekistan/Russia
Oleg received his ballet training from the National Ballet School of Uzbekistan. Upon graduation, he was offered a job with Moscow Classical Ballet in Russia, where he toured with the company throughout Europe, the USA, and Asia. Curious to perform ballets of Western choreographers, Oleg came to the USA in 1995, to dance with Indianapolis Ballet Theatre. A few years later, he was invited to join Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) in Seattle, WA, where he reached soloist rank. While dancing with PNB, Mr. Gorboulev was featured in works of American choreographers such as George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Lynn Taylor-Corbett, Val Caniparoli, Eugene Loring, Glen Tetley, Paul Taylor, Nicolo Fonte, as well as in works by European choreographers such as Rudi van Dantzig, Hans van Manen, and Ronald Hynd.. He was one of the dancers chosen to participate in the Hayden Seattle Project of the George Balanchine Foundation in 2000. Oleg most recently danced as a founding member of Los Angeles Ballet and currently dances with Seattle Dance Project, Seattle, WA.
He is also a highly acclaimed ballet instructor in the Seattle area, teaching at the Olympic Ballet School, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, Spectrum Dance Theatre, and International School of Classical Ballet.
Cyrus Khambatta - USA (Seattle)
Artistic Director - Khambatta Dance (formerly Phffft! Dance Company) He studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts before creating his own international touring company. His works have been presented in twelve US states, throughout Europe, Russia and Latin America. In 2003, his choreographic work received California’s Daman New Choreography Award and in 2004 he was chosen for The National Dance Project/New England Foundation for the Arts Regional Dance Development Initiative. He is also the Director of Seattle International Dance Festival - Beyond the Threshold.
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