C O L O N Y
winter dance summit | 2024:
Nida, February 12-18, 2024.
P R O G R A M:
CREATION PROJECT (3 hours a day / 5 days) with Victor Rottier
GAGA with Natalia Iwaniec
FLOOR WORK STUDIES with Adrian Vega
HOUSE DANCE and TOOLS with Marina Pravkina
CALLUS & ANALYSIS with Victor Rottier
SCI-FI MOTION: DIGITAL BODIES with Adrian Vega
JAZZ NOT JAZZ with Marina Pravkina
NUTRITION with Dovydas Zenkevicius
CREATIVE SELF-MANAGEMENT / MENTORING with Laurynas Zakevicius
PERFORMANCES
☞ A full detailed program and schedule will be shared with registered colonizers.
T E A C H E R S
Get to know your teachers for a little bit more:
CREATION PROJECT / VICTOR ROTTIER
‘Deaf on 1 eye’
This creation project is designed for around 10-12 people and lasts for 5 days. The results will be presented alongside the two artists in a residency presentation on Sunday at Nida Art Colony. Victor’s creation project runs on 13-17 February 2024.
This endeavor is committed to exploring innovative concepts for an upcoming production. It will operate as a collaborative platform where we exchange and implement tools to enhance the creative process. Our dedicated time will encompass every facet of creation, allowing ample space for exploration and idea development. Victor highly values the unique contributions each individual brings to the process and aims to nurture those qualities within the work. Vitor’s approach involves integrating elements from his workshops, emphasizing the sustained flow of movement, dynamic engagement, and the effective distribution of energy. These principles will serve as the cornerstone for both the physical and theatrical aspects applied to the project.
**the application deadline is 7 February 2024 (10-12 movers). Motivation and short video representing you as a dancer shall be send to: info@dancecolony.lt
Victor Rottier, originally from the Netherlands, completed his education at Artez University of the Arts in Arnhem, Netherlands. Presently, he is engaged as a freelance choreographer, director and teacher. In the period of 2013-2014, Victor collaborated with the Poetic Disasters Club, led by Club Guy & Roni in Groningen, Netherlands. From 2014 to 2018, Victor served as a full-time ensemble dancer at Staatstheater Kassel, participating in performances choreographed by Johannes Wieland, Hofesh Shechter, Maxime Doyle, Tom Weinberger, and Helder Seabra. He also assumed the roles of rehearsal director and choreographic assistant alongside Johannes Wieland until 2022. Victor tours his workshops, “Slam!” and “Callus & Analysis” at various contemporary dance festivals across Europe.
GAGA / NATALIA IWANIEC
From deep listening to the body to physical sensations. It’s a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, agility and skills including coordination and efficiency while stimulating the senses and imagination. Natalia’s classes offer a workout that investigates form, speed and effort while traversing additional spectrums such as those between soft and thick textures, delicacy and explosive power, understatement and exaggeration. Natalia is guiding dancers through awakening numb areas, increasing awareness of habits and improving the efficiency of movement inside multilayered tasks. Dancers are encouraged to connect to pleasure inside moments of effort.
FLOOR WORK STUDIES / ADRIAN VEGA
Adrian’s 24-year experience with floor work presents his perspective on the technical diversity of ground-based movement and inversion. It offers insights from dance to movement with choreographic planning, aiming to simplify the approach to different bodily poetics through discussion. This course will work on unison patterns and sequences, exercises to enhance individual creativity, training routines and improvisation. Adrian’s approach is to improve the relationship and perspective towards various floor work techniques, leveraging the group’s diverse experiences in acrobatics, release, Capoeira, urban dances or somatic techniques.
SCI-FI MOTION: DIGITAL BODIES / ADRIAN VEGA
Sci-fi motion: digital bodies is a choreographic device exploring the potential of fiction and digitalization of the physique through space travel, android corporealities, system failures and new technologies. Over the years Adrian Vega realized technology and the digital space have impacted his practice, particularly his physique. In this workshop, ‘Digital Bodies,’ he would like to approach the idea of the offline and online physique, to experiment with sequences and textures that create a phantasmagoric coding in the physique.
Adrián Vega, a b-boy from the 2000 generation, emerged in the era of Rubik style and abstract breakin’. His urban dance career is influenced by events like Lords of the Floor, Freestyle Session, Who Can Roast the Most, and the documentary Detours. These led him to explore poetic freedom, culminating in his graduation from the Conservatory of Barcelona, the Institut del Teatre. He taught there for five years, specializing in floorwork and acrobatics.
With Iron Skulls for a decade, he won awards like the Audience Award – Sinestesia Dance and Theater Fair of Huesca 2013. Audience Award – Sinestesia Estrenat 2013. 1st Jury Prize – Sinestesia Hop Festival 2013. Audience Award – Sinestesia 10 sentidos 2014. 1st Jury Prize – Sinestesia Burgos New York 2014. 1st Jury Prize – Kintsugi Burgos New York 2017. 1st Jury Prize – Kintsugi Snap Festival 2018 He toured through Spain, Europe and Latin America, participating in festivals like Hip Hop International in San Francisco, two times Breakin’ convention (London) and the U.K. tour, two times Summer Dance Forever (Amsterdam) and Summer stage (New York).
His style now is a mix of urban dances, contemporary dance and flamenco, each intersecting with and influencing his artistic expression. Currently, his focus is on the sonority of the body, exploring the possibilities of percussion and sound textures through movement. This perspective has led him to create new pieces from a performative standpoint, developing new dramaturgy around the body. He’s been able to associate his work with educational contexts and creation centers like La Caldera, Mercat de les Flors, Campus pcs, and El Graner.
HOUSE DANCE and TOOLS | JAZZ NOT JAZZ / MARINA PRAVKINA
Marina develops an artistic path and improvisational dance language through the conception ‘Jazz not Jazz’. For the past years, she constantly worked on experimentation and research around textures of the sound and movement, the relation between musical instruments and the dancing body. Marina teaches UK jazz fusion and house dance styles, experimenting with footworks as an instrument for improvisation and “sound-texture” tools for the development of dance improvisation & practicing.
CALLUS & ANALYSIS / VICTOR ROTTIER
I give you callus & analysis.
A workshop designed for those who want to create a balance between working hard and smart.
A technical and physical approach jam-packed with improvisation, set material and analytical tasks.
These days we will analyze the how, what and why in order to make a point out of our performance.
We will create a space to explore and share ideas while using tools and tasks to push our limits.
We will take time to run, fly, jump, dive, fall and get up to keep going.
As always we will be accompanied by 100% sun energised and hand-squeezed tunes to groove to!
I hope to see you there!
CREATIVE SELF-MANAGEMENT | MENTORING / LAURYNAS ZAKEVICIUS
How to build a sustainable life and navigate my career as an independent dance artist? This session provides some insights, tips and tools for managing your everyday life and artistic career. Whilst dancing, creating and being on tours with Low Air, Laurynas has developed cultural management, networking and production skills, building new possibilities for Low Air company. Filling out a great number of open calls, applying for funding, managing productions and touring from Greenland to Korea, from New York to the French Riviera it seems to be the right time to share the “Do’s and Don’ts“. Possibilities are everywhere, it is important for a dancer to understand and interpret them correctly.
NUTRITION / DOVYDAS ZENKEVICIUS
Dovydas is a professional chef. Dovydas will not only prepare food but will also present everything that is important for a healthy, moving body diet. There is more than one interesting piece of advice waiting for participants: how to maintain a healthy and vibrant body during rehearsals and tours, how to take care of nutrient balancing and, of course, learn to cook.
If it’s not about dancing, it’s definitely about delicious food.
