WORKSHOPS OCTOBER 5–8

Attendees: only professional dancers and dance students can attend the workshops.

Registration until October 4th. The number of participants is very limited, please register in advance at AURA Dance Theatre (M. Daukšos st. 30 A, Kaunas), more information – koordinatore@aura.lt.

Payment – when registering. Price: participation in one workshop – 10 €, participation in 5 workshops – 40 €, participation in all 8 workshops – 60 €.

Festival participants and AURA dancers attend for free but they also must register.

Venues for workshops:
> Dance studio of Edita Daniūtė  (Laisvės al. 36, Ground Floor, Kaunas)
> Studio of AURA Dance Theater (M. Daukšos g. 30A, Kaunas)

Dance Studio of Edita Daniūtė

10:00-11:30 | DJAHEL VINAVER (Mexico) | 90 min.
A practical workshop based on Indian dance techniques (Odissi and Bharata Natyam) focusing on some of its features such as: hand and facial gestures, rythmic syllables and basic postures that do complement and enrich contemporary dance. Participants must bring comfortable clothing and a long light scarf to be tightened around the waist and bare foot.
About Djahel Vinaver

11:45-13:45 | MARCELA SÁNCHEZ MOTA and OCTAVIO ZEIVY / FOCO alAIRE PRODUCCIONES (Mexico) | 120 min.
Part 1. We will do many excercises of physical theatre (confidence, knowledge of the other, communication of participants).
Part 2. Basic knowledge of energies: physic, mental and emotional exercises, the importance of non-verbal communication, states of catarsis in soft ways for preparing to give the emotional and physic work of the Ultramar interpreters and we will finish with dancing with the Other, profoundly.
About Marcela Sanchez Mota and Octavio Zeivy

Dance Studio of Edita Daniūtė

10:00-11:30 | CYRUS KHAMBATTA (USA) | 90 min.
A three-part session of technique (release), a repertory phrase and finish with viewpoints, a composition technique.
About Cyrus Khambatta

Dance Studio of Edita Daniūtė

10:00-11:30 | YARON SHAMIR (Israel) | 90 min.
We are moving wisely as we learn to analyse the possibilities that time and space offer us. In this class, Momentum, Gravity and Breathing guide and help us while we play with physicality. Using the languages of floor work, jumps, height control of directions, release and acrobatic elements, we learn to enjoy energy. In this physical world, we develop skills about how to control the judgment in ourselves, while we move and become aware of our surroundings. Protections for knees are recommended.
About Yaron Shamir

11:45-13:15 | IEVA NAVICKAITĖ (Lithuania-Sweden) | 90 min.
Workshop will start with a dynamic warm up class consisting of improvisation bits encouraging the body to find its self-awareness, discover limits and free the imagination. Set excercises and combinations will be accessed with animalistic approach and ideas of efficiency, adaptability and intricacy. They will strengthen, ground and research the body for the last choreographic part of the workshop encouraging individuality within the set material and simply enjoy moving.

AURA Dance Theatre studio

15:00-16:30 | JAE SEUNG KIM (South Korea) | 90 min.
Jindo Ssigimgut is one of the rites that transfer the spirit of a dead person to the other world in the course of yeongdonmari, and it includes a course which makes something that symbolizes a body of a dead person and washes it. We will create beauty of oriental image and contemporary image based on images of aforementioned rites, and a contact of breathing by applying a contact of contemporary dance to breathing of Korean dance.
* Jindo Ssigimgut (Jindo Purification Rite), designated as Korea's important intangible cultural asset (No. 72) is shaman rite that prays for a dead person to go to heaven. In Jindo Ssigimgut, exorcist, wearing in white mourning clothes, puts up a petition to heaven while dancing and singing. In Jindo Ssigimgut, exorcist plays a role that connects a dead person to descendants of a dead person).
About Jae Seung Kim

Dance Studio of Edita Daniūtė

10:00-11:30 | JUNG IN LEE (South Korea) | 90 min.
“Floating Body” is a workshop for all participants who would like to make movement experience from instinct and pleasure of body. We can touch our sensitive skins and through the feeling of body talking we try to manage various movements with lots of body understanding. Try to find movement potential by yourself, and focus to strong energy from creative possibilities.
About Jung In Lee

11:45-13:15 | JOSEPH KIM (South Korea) | 90 min.
Workshop of Feldenkrais Method. This class is designed to Aware and Differentiate of the Foot and Toes.
It is Awareness Through Movement lesson in Feldenkrais Method following the way of Mind Body Studies.
The Feldenkrais Method is based on principles of physics, biomechanics and an empirical understanding of learning and human development.
Founders of MBS Academy, applied the work of Dr. Feldenkrais to define and establish the Core Principles® and foundations of this vase body of knowledge.
About Joseph Kim