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BEGINNERS PROGRAMME - WEEK 4

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.

Contemporary technique class with Jacob Storer

This beginner contemporary technique class is based around weight transfer and anatomical approaches to access coordinations within the body to move with ease and delicious autonomy. Engaging personally and working in pairs to access certain tools of manipulation and sensation, the class will develop with concepts of investigation, moments of improvisational research, and culminate with a movement phrase that incorporates these principles, connecting from the internal space to the space that surrounds and supports us. In other words, a dance class, let’s have some fun.

Jacob Storer (US)

Jacob Storer graduated in 2016 from P.A.R.T.S in Brussels, Belgium and joined Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2017. He is currently based between Brooklyn and Brussels collaborating in projects regarding somatic embodiment, movement, music, and semantics of language. He has previously taught at NYU, Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi, and P.A.R.T.S..

Project workshop with Ori Flomin

The energetic body through dance and meridians

Our dancing body is charged with energy and its continuous flow is essential to maintain a balanced and a healthy state of being. In Eastern philosophy the energy is expressed through pathways known as meridians which are divided into five elements – Earth, Water, Wood, Metal and Fire. Each element is expressed through different qualities which we experience throughout our daily life.

In this workshop we will explore the different elements, their qualities and how they are being expressed through the dancing body. We will explore and follow the physical location of the meridians on the body and practice how to balance the energy through body work technique (shiatsu), partnering and stretching. We will continue to affect the energy through the moving body using imagery and improvisation as an integral part of the warm up leading us to explore full out dancing and build up into dance vocabulary.

This exploration will encourage dancers to discover the five elements within them and how to take advantage of those qualities through the awareness of the meridians. The goal is to find a sense of abundance in our dancing while feeling strong and balanced.

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.