Dimo Kirilov Milev, Luis Marrafa, Maša Kolar, Sam Coren, Silke Zimmerman, Teresa Ranieri and Winifred Burnet-Smith are the teachers, dancers, or choreographers invited by the Paulo Ribeiro Company for the cycle Formation Labs in Dance which takes place between November 2017 and March 2018.
Trainees with a distinguished professional background who integrated or integrate internationally renowned dance companies such as Silke Z./resistdance, Ultima Vez, Hofesh Shechter, Jasmin Vardimon Company, National Dance Company (Nacho Duato), Ballet Dresden and Itzik Galili, among others and have developed their work in countries such as Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Spain, Holland England, Italy and Portugal.
The Formation Labs in Dance (FLD) aim to activate and promote meetings between trainers and trainees, providing contact and access to different artistic languages and creative methods, which allows to foster a more eclectic approach to the various practices and ways of thinking of Dance.
This continuous and sectioned program for several months is aimed at those over 15 years of age, with or without experience in dance, dance students and professional dance interpreters. The FLD’s take place at the studio of Paulo Ribeiro Company, at the Teatro Viriato, in Viseu, at the weekend, and for each one will be created modules with specific, diverse and comprehensive objectives.
2017 > PROGRAMA · PROGRAM
2018 > PROGRAMA · PROGRAMº
SILKE ZIMMERMAN
THE STREAM OF INFORMATION (AWARENESS IN MOTION)
04 E·AND 05 NOV
“The Stream of Information” is a method of reading, translating and developing. It is a continuous updating and passing on of movement information: the physical information is read and transformed into a new physical language in real time.
Dance - Information is continuously passed on, interpreted and developed to create new movement and new qualities of movement. The reading and passing on of information, serves as a system to create movement material. It also opens up an exchange of experience and ideas between the different bodies with different abilities, trainings and backgrounds.
Information is being passed on through different physical possibilities, and read with different levels of experience, through very different kind of lenses.
This method shows how movement material can be developed and changed in different ways, depending on the age, body type, gender and personality of the performer.
Silke Z lives and works as an independent choreographer in Cologne, Germany. She studied dance at the European Dance Development Center (EDDC) in Arnheim, in the Netherlands. as well as at the Moving On Center School for Participatory Arts and Research (MOC) in San Francisco in USA. She is the artistic director of the company Silke Z./resistdance and the co-founder of EhrenfeldStudios (2015) and the network StudioTrade in 2011. In 2014, Silke Z. published the book UNTER UNS! – Künstlerische Forschung – Biographie – Performancw. Currently she is working on the project Die Metabolisten – Stoff Wechseln and continues her artistic and practical research on Performing Immediacy in the context of a PhD at the University of Falmouth (United Kingdom).
SAM COREN
SAM COREN WORKSHOP
09 E·AND 10 DEZ·DEC
Sam Teaches classes and workshops aimed at training professional dancers how to enhance their creation, characterization and performance skills in more theatrical work. His methodology is designed to encourage dancers to explore their bodies and creative talents from multiple angles, classes are heavily movement orientated while taking influences from theatrical techniques such as Stanislavsky, Meisner, clowning and mask work. He also uses this technique to approach creation when he is choreographing/directing.
Sam Coren is a performer and choreographer/ director based in London. As a performer, has worked with some of the leading dance and theatre companies including Jasmin Vardimon Company, Ultima Vez (Monkey Sandwich R&D), Clod Ensemble and spent five years as a senior member of Hofesh Shechter Company. Other projects include working with Antony Gormley & Hofesh Shechter on the project Survivor (Barbican) and critically acclaimed opera Orpheus et Eurydice (Royal Opera House) amongst others. He has also appeared in numerous music videos, film shorts and commercials as an actor, as well as a dancer, including the award winning short Curing Albrecht. His choreographic works have been shown across Europe and most recently he has created pieces in Canada and Spain.
MAŠA KOLAR
SHIFTING WEIGHT = BUILDING LANDSCAPE
13 E·AND 14 JAN
I am interested in exploring several aspects of dance and communicate those findings through the proper warm up into my own dance vocabulary phrases. i always have a need to work with students from different angles of perception and space. Maybe, that’s why we almost always end up using as much floor work as we travel through the space or stay still for a moment on the same spot. Exploring dynamics I am focusing how we can execute movements more clear, efficient and authentic to our own body. The body, in a movement articulated behind its normal appearance changes, but it still stays recognisable and familiar. It offers the new sensations, new or just different body landscape, these facts are a source of inspiration in the studio and exciting moments to work and share time with students.
Maša Kolar is a dancer and choreographer from Croatia. She joined Ballet Dresden (Germany), Thoss TanzKompanie in Kiel (Germany) and Aterballetto (Italy), as well as numerous projects as a freelancer dance artist. She has received numerous awards such as the Mary Wingman Award (1997), the Croatian Theater Award for female dancer (2008), the Austin Critics Award, the UPUH Vocational Award and the National Theater Ivan pl. Zajc ‘Olga Orlova’ (2013). In 2005, 2006 and 2008 she lectures at the Scandinavian Dance Academy (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Center for the Arts Interlochen (United States of America). She has already given workshops in Japan, Germany, Croatia, Serbia and Australia. Maša Kolar is currently the artistic director of the Ballet HNK Rijeka/Ballet of the Croatian National Theater Rijeka.
TERESA RANIERI
MOVING FROM THE INSIGHT OUT (EXPLORING THE HEART-MIND-BODY)
26 E·AND 27 JAN
My personal approach to movements treats the heart, mind and body holistically, rather than as separated systems. What occurs in the heart, mind and body when we improvise? How do we notice and observe the mind during improvisation? By noticing sensations, thoughts or emotions as they come and go, we will become more sensitive to our heart-body-mind, developing a clear attentiveness and a mindful stance to the choices we make in each moment.
During this workshop, after a simple daily physical warm up, I will suggest a series of tasks as tools for researching how “the moving self” arises from this inner space.
There are no prerequisites to register for this workshop. It is open to all, with or without previous experience in improvisation, who are willing to try something new and discover the unbound creativity that lies in us all, whether you want to bring to light your authentic being on the stage or in your daily life!
Teresa Ranieri is a professor and choreographer from Italy, having dance training in Italy and France. Post-graduation in Pedagogy and Movement Research by the Bruckner Universität in Linz, Austria. He was an interpreter in choreographies of Rui Horta, Amanda Miller and William Forsythe, among others. She is a guest professor at several European companies and schools. In 2012 she was invited by UNICAMP in Campinas (Brazil) to develop artistic and pedagogical projects in the region.
WINIFRED BURNET-SMITH
PRESENCE THROUGH MOVEMENT
17 E · AND 18 FEV FEB’18
Winifred Burnet-Smith born in England, has been in the last 10 years a ballet dancer and essay assistant at the Hofesh Shechter Company. She also works as a freelancer with several European choreographers, such as Russel Maliphant and Itzik Galili. She is currently attending the Hofesh Shechter works and teaches workshops and master classes around the world.
DIMO KIRILOV MILEV
EFFICIENT AND EXPRESSIVE BODY
03 E · AND 04 MAR’18
We can’t be expressive without being functional and we can’t be functional without being expressive.
Through conscious, whole body movement, we work on different types of qualities, volumes and textures. Learning how to use correct-adequate force, storing and releasing energy and how to eliminate tensions and blockages, allowing the body to move freely and finding more and more possibilities to express. Reaching efficient organic body language as base to work from. The class-workshop emphasizes on the internal work. Working from inside-out and approaching the movement as a continuity of the intentions.
Dimo Kirilov Milev was born in Bulgaria, he worked in companies like The National Opera of Sofia (Bulgaria), Jeunne Ballet de France, Ballet National de Nancy et Lorraine (France) and the Compañia Nacional de Danza (Spain) under the direction of Nacho Duato. He became a freelance dancer, choreographer, teacher and assistant in 2009. With his creations and co-creations he has received numerous awards in both the Copenhagen and Hannover choreography competitions (2011) and in the International Competition for Choreography Burgos - New York (2014). Together with Tamako Akiyama, he was invited by Manuel Legris for The New Universe of Manuel Legris in Vienna, Paris and Tokyo.
LUIS MARRAFA
FLOW
17 E · AND 18 MAR’18
During his professional experience, Luis Marrafa has developed the contemporary dance technique “Flow”, which emerges from the fusion of martial arts with various artistic techniques. This practice aims to highlight the fluidity of movement within a dynamic game, reflecting a lightness of the body, without friction and without gravity. “The concept is to generate movement, from the simplest to the complex. Each movement, in turn, will have a deep desire to communicate”, says the choreographer. This approach to the movement, based on his repertoire in recent creations, is demanding and promotes the improvement of the physical and technical condition of the dancer/participant.
Luis Marrafa was born and lived in Schüttorf, Germany, he moved to Évora and then to Lisbon. He passed through London and now lives and works in Brussels. From an early age, draw and dance divided his interest. He graduated from the School of Dance in Lisbon.
He is co-founder of MARRAFA company and of the StairCase.studio dance studio in Brussels. He creates and produces his own work as a choreographer, dancer and sound designer/composer, intuitively inspired by his experience and the multicultural environment around him. He has worked with Karine Ponties, Rui Horta, António Cabrita and Tânia Carvalho, among others.
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