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International
Dance Day
April 29
and May 1, 2011
I NTERNATIONAL
DAY OF DANCE IN RIGA
Programme:
April 29:
Look for
Olga Zitluhina dance company
somewhere in
streets
of Riga
May 1:
Open
and free
classes in different
dance studios
in Riga to try and learn different contemporary
dance techniques.
Classes will be tought by Latvian contemporary dance
teachers.
More info
in
Latvian at
www.dejasdiena.lv
April, 30, 11:00 a.m. at
Latvia Culture college
In frames of Latvian Theatre
Showcase 2011 ( organized by
The New Theatre
Institute of Latvia )
Studio visit: work in progress presentations and
meeting choreographers:
Dmitry Gaitjukevic and Ilze Zirina
Supported by Latvia Culoture
college!
May 27th - 30th, 2011 in Grobina, Latvia
CI weekend in Grobina
We invite You to spend exciting, creative, relaxed
weekend together in Grobina, Latvia. We will share
experience, learn, discover, meet and get to know
contact dance in different colors. We would like to
focus on fact that we are very similar in our
differences. The weekend offers
classes, creative labs, JAMs, Time To Dance
improvisation, sketches.
Please read more info
here.
JUne 10 - 16 ,
2011in
Riga
International dance festival
Time To Dance 2011
J une
10.,11.,12:
Dance
perfoemances - diploma works, created by
4th
year
students
of
dance department, Latvian Academy of Culture
June
13. - 16:
Performances by local and guest choreographers. Artists,
visiting Time To Dance 2011:
New Art Club (
United
Kingdom),
Editta Braun Company (
Austria
), Hillel
Kogan (
Israel
), Tatyana
Gordeeva
and
Yevgenij Pankratov
(
Russia
), Olga
Zitluhina
dance
company
(
Latvia
), Dmitrij
Gaitjukevics
(
Latvia
)
, ZI temp. dance (Latvia)
Classes
for two
levels
with
Hillel
Kogan ( Gaga ), Tom Roden
un Pet
Shenton
(
composition through improvisation ),
Tatyana
Gordeeva ( contemporary ),
YevgenijPankratov
( contemporary ), Ilze Zirina ( contact improvisation )
Detailed
info is comming!
March 4 - 6 at Latvian
Accademy of Culture

Participants
Intermediate level of CI
is recommended
Take with you
Comfortable clothes, no
shoes needed, but helpful could be warm socks
Fee
Early price (if paid
before 21.02.2011): LVL 35 / EUR 50 (JAM included),
full price (if paid
after 21.02 or on day): LVL 40 / EUR 57 (JAM included)
each 2,5h session: LVL
10 / EUR
15
JAM only: LVL 4 / EUR 7
Registration fee: LVL 15
/ EUR 20. It makes a part of the participation fee.
Nonrefundable in case of cancellation
HA
membership card owners |
students LVL 20 / EUR 29
Registration
Gunta | gunta@i-d
eja.lv
| +371 29726279
Monday
February 14 and Tuesday, 15 2011, 19:00 at Gertrude' s
Theater
Olga Zitluhina Dance
Company
presents
And
Again About The Same. Part I
Premieres:
Musicra
Premiere: 19th,
20th
of March 2005, Dream Factory, Riga
Choreography:
Olga Zitluhina / Fiona Millward (Great Britain) /
Olga Zitluhina Dance Company
Music: Juris
Kaukulis / Kaspars Tobis (Dzelzs Vilks)
Performance with the live music by Juris Kaukulis and
Kaspars Tobis ( Dzelzs Vilks )
And
Again About The Same. Part I is a dance drama for
six dancers and two musicians. It is created in 2005
and is the most often danced piece in companys
repertoire.
It
was the second collaboration
project
with the rock band Dzelzs Vilks. In November 2007
the fifth co-work Bike was premiered in Riga,
Dailes Theater.
Its
difficult to remember whether I have ever seen
contemporary dance performance, which involved me such
an amount of warmth and light and still remaining
humorous and ironical.
/Dita Eglite, NRA (national daily paper)/
I couldnt
imagine that human voice, body and spirit can create
something so weird and magically beautiful to the sounds
of mandolin and accordion.
/Baiba Suseja, Auseklis (regional paper)/
Time:
February 14.,15, 2011, 19:00
Place:
Gertrude Theater ( Gertrudes street 101 a . Entrance
form the yard )
Price:
5.00LVL, 3.00 LVL for students, pensioners, ISIC,
ITIC, IYTC card owners
Tickets: www.bezrindas.lv
Organizer:
www.git.lv
To have a
taste, please watch extracts from the piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaDCJ2ei0_4
February 18.,19. 2011 19:00 at Theatre Museum of E. Smilgis
4th year student's of dance
department of LCA present their composition works on
theme
Video
and Dance

This time You will
see choreographic presentations in studio version by
choreographers who applied for The CriticalDance
Choreographic Award in amount of EUR 1000.00.
The CriticalDance
Choreographic Award
is a support for a
choreographer to create a new dance piece, which will
have its premiere in frames of international festival
Time To Dance 2011
TheCriticalDance
Choreographic Award
CriticalDanceis a worldwide collection of individuals
passionate about dance as a performing arts. They are
committed to educate and to inform and they seek to
foster a global and inclusive dance arts community that
encourages open discussion from multiple points of view.
Currently these goals are primarily achieved through our
online Ballet-DanceMagazine and forum (
www.ballet-dance.com
).
In addition, CriticalDance currently provides financial
and resource support to a variety of small and fledgling
dance organizations around the world, including projects
in Estonia and Poland. We are delighted to sponsor the
CriticalDance Choreographic Award, in recognition of the
talent and determination of Latvian dance artists.
Special thanks to Stuart
Sweeney!
TheCriticalDance Choreographic Award
The panel decided to split the award and support the
creation of two works with 500 EUR each.
The winners are:
-
Dmitrijs Gaitjukevics with a sketch for work
Personales... or Personal...
-
Ilze Zirina with a sketch for work IF...
Ideas of both performances were appreciated as
potentially strong, capacious and worth developing. As
the result of more than two hours long discussion the
panel decided that it is impossible to award single
prize, because the offer and working directions of both
choreographers are very different, they address and
occupy different niches and it opens up possibilities
for more colors in the development of the Latvian
contemporary dance. The panel sees both approaches as
equally necessary and worth supporting.
The third work offered for the award Undrawable
by Kristine Vismane in its offered format was assessed
as successfully completed work.
The panel expresses gratitude to all the applicants for
the inspiration to discuss and wishes to all
choreographers to continue creative activities and to
cause hours long thinking for every spectator of the
contemporary dance!
The panel members:
Inta Balode
Martins Eihe
Fiona Millward (United Kingdom)
Laura Stasāne
Olga itluhina
Both performances will be also included in the program
of International contemporary dance festival TIME TO
DANCE 2011.
February 4 - 8, 2011, 10:00 - 13:00 every day
Workshop in
release technique for professionals by Fiona Millward (
UK )
Price: 30.00 LVL.
Free for owners of HA member card.
sign for the workshop on:
horasoc@gmail.com
Release Technique Class
This extended release technique class will draw on a
range of different practices, but most notably elements
of the Franklinฎ Method of Dynamic Alignment, Imagery,
and Ball work, which can offer a powerful stimulus for
change from habitual patterns. It will also incorporate
the performative practice of Deborah Hay to encourage a
more present engagement within each moment.
Each class will
begin with a particular anatomical focus, either working
alone or in pairs, to offer a context of exploration for
the rest of the session. The aim is to support each
individual in the deepening of their kinesthetic
experience within set exercises, in order to facilitate
an integrated and functional use of the body when
moving. Sequences will then explore the texture of
dynamics, detail, clarity, and intention layered with
the particularity of the Hay performative practice.
Fiona Millward
Has worked
throughout the UK and abroad as a dancer, teacher and
choreographer since 1985.
She regularly
teaches in the UK and abroad both independently and for
the British Council. Her teaching takes place in a
variety of settings, from independent classes to
companies and institutions, and for a range of
participants, from dance artists to actors to
non-professionals. She has led classes and workshops
throughout the UK, and in US, Switzerland, Estonia,
Russia, Bulgaria and Latvia. Since qualifying as a
Franklin Method teacher in 2002, she has shared this
work in many different contexts.
Her
choreographic work has received many awards and
commissions over the years, and she has enjoyed
collaborative ventures with a variety of artists, in
particular Dance Artists Darrell Jones and Olga
Zitluhina, Visual Artist Jo Fairfax, Theatre Director
Katie Goodwin, and The European Travelling Project. She
is also extremely grateful to Olga for not only creating
an extraordinary company of dancers, but also allowing
Fiona to borrow them for occasional projects in
England.
From
1999 2004 Fiona was Head of Movement at the Oxford
School of Drama and from 2001 2005 the recipient of a
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
fellowship (NESTA) for her work with the Professional
training programme Independent Dance, based at the
Siobhan Davies Studios, which she has co-directed
alongside Gill Clarke since 1996.
June 13 - 16
International contemporary dance festival
Time To Dance 2011
On Monday, December 20, at
20.00 in Spīķeri Concert hall
Olga Zitluhina Dance Company invites to performance
Viss baltā (All in white).
The
performance is planned to be as a retrospection of
the pieces done last years with fragments of the
piece newest piece It will be
will be
- a cooperation with Stellaris Dance Theater
that took place in Hammerfest, Norway
This performance will be an unforgetable
contemporary dance experience with the magic of the
moment - parts of the performance are going to be
made on the spot catching audience presence,
thoughts, emotions and mood transforming them to
language of the dance motion.
Tickets to the performance Viss
baltā are available at Biļeu paradīze
booking-offices, and
www.bilesuparadize.lv
.
Price 7 Ls. For students and seniors 5 Ls.
Friday,
December 03, 19:00, Culture College of Latvia ( adress:
Bruninieku street 57, Riga )
Time To Dance improvisation, sketches
The
evening will be focused on stage improvisation and
JAM session which will last all through the night
till 7:00 in Saturday morning.
If you'd like to perform at
Time To
Dance
improvisation, sketches,
please contact us
by
horasoc@gmail.com
with the subject participation at Time To Dance
improvisation, sketches.
More detailed
info , please read here.
Event is
supported by Culture College of Latvia.
Tuesday, November 23,
Wednesday, November 24 , Riga Choreography School, 10:00
- 12:00
Open
classes in contemporary dance technique for
professionals by Katri Soini ( Finland )
Free classes for HA members.

October 01.- 03., 2010, in Culture College of Latvia (
adress: Bruninieku str 57, Riga )
Workshop of Contact Improvisation, led by
Ruslan 'Santah' Baranov ( Kiev, Ukraine
).
Among the
participants also
Otto Akkanen
from
Finland,
Julia Melnik from Lithuania, Ilze Zirina from Latvia
etc. JAM sessions in the evening of October 2.,3.
Workshop is open for all the levels.
The
event is supported by
Culture College of Latvia.
TIME SCHEDULE:
Friday, October 1:
19:0021:30;
Saturday, October 2:
11:00-17:30 (
break - 1 hour
);
Sunday, October 3:
11:00-17:30 (
break - 1 hour
);
Saturday night:
JAM session!
S unday
night:
Time To Dance, improvisations, sketches
RUSLAN
SANTAH
Ruslan Santah
i s
a dancer, choreographer and CI teacher from Kiev.
Started professional career as a teacher and dancer of
folk dance, performing together with several leading
folk dance companies in Ukraine. Besides he participated
at musicals
Dracula ( in
Czech ), Keep Cool
( in Switzerland ). At the present he is a dancer at
Kiev Modern Ballet.
In
1999 was a member of
Dance Web-99
and got to know CI. In one year he started to teach CI
in Ukraine. CI studied from such teachers as Ester Gal (
Hungary ), Benno Voorham and Sybrig Dokter ( Sweden ),
Brentong Chung ( USA ), Ekhard Miller ( Germany ), Steve
Batt ( Ireland ) and others.
ABOUT THE
WORKSHOP:
Following in
CI
I
imagine CI as a spatial play of dance of joy and
spontaneity. I' d say, the style of my teaching is
unsentimental...
Physical
collaboration, play, clear mind is important . We will
pay attention to cohesion, understanding and feeling.
Will learn to move simple and comprehensible for our
partner. Let's try to let the dance flow itself,
enjoying comfort and release both in body and mind.
Let's try to simplify dance till perfection.
REGISTRATION AND QUESTIONS TO:
Inese Auziņa,
inese@kontaktpunkts.lv,
t.  +371
2 9262198
http://kontaktpunkts.blogspot.com
Sunday, October
3, 19:00, Culture College of Latvia ( adress:
Bruninieku street 57, Riga )
Time To Dance improvisation, sketches
Details about the place
and participants will come soon.
This time the
evening will be focused on stage improvisation and
JAM session.
Such improvisers as
Ruslan Santah from Ukraine,
Otto Akkanen
from Finland,
Julia
Melnik
from Lithuania and
Ilze Zirina from Latvia will be among
participants. If you'd like to perform at
Time To
Dance
improvisation, sketches,
please contact us
by
horasoc@gmail.com
with the subject participation at Time To Dance
improvisation, sketches.
More detailed
info , please read here.
Event is
supported by Culture College of Latvia.
September 17. - 19.,
2010
Workshop
in Contact Improvisation Licence for Flying
by
Harry
Selgado ( Brazil
)
Open for all level.
The description of the wor
kshop at the website of I-deja:
www.i-deja.lv
For more info , please contact:
Pāvels Jegorovs,
pavel@i-deja.lv

Heather Olson in collaboration with Olga Zitluhina dance
company
YOUR
EXPERIENCE HERE
September 16th,
18:00 and 20:00 at the Museum of Literature and Music (
Pils 2 )
Your Experience Here began from an
interest in the difficulty of abstract dance to
communicate and translate clearly. Instead of fighting
against this communication problem, the piece invites it
into the process of how it was made. Several steps were
taken during the process to highlight the natural, and
unavoidable, gaps that occur in translation of
information. A long distance collaboration was
established between Olga, Heather, and Inta. Olga and
Heather attempted to share choreographic sequences via
email (with Inta translating the material into written
descriptions) and then generate movement material for
the dance based on what they thought the other had made.
Upon arrival in Riga, Heather brought the dancers into
this same process, providing written instructions for
movement based on what had been made previously as a
result of Olga and Heather's collaboration. The result
of this process is a dance created though multiple
personal filters and accidental misinterpretations. The
piece might be read as a metaphor for the small
miscommunications that occur in everyday life, as well
as large scale, cultural misunderstandings on a global
scale. It will be performed in a non-neutral location
that highlights this idea of different personal
viewpoints. The Soviet era interior will read
differently for every person in the room.
Heather Olson
is originally from Chicago and holds a BFA in dance from
North Carolina School of the Arts.
Working
with Tere OConnor since 1997In
addition to her work with Tere, Olson has danced with
Jennifer Allen, Ivy Baldwin, Yanira Castro, Levi
Gonzales, and Donna Uchizono among others. Her own
choreographic work has been presented at Aunts,
Baryshnikov Arts Center, Danspace Project, Catch!, La
Mama, Movement Research at Judson Church, Solonova Arts
Festival at P.S. 122, and 100 Grand (LIT and
Gorillafest). She has been commissioned by Dance Theater
Workshop (spring 2008) and was a 2008/2009 Sugar Salon
Artist.
Has visited Time To Dance 2008 with Tere O'Connor Dance
and Yanira Castro.
Tickets available at:
www.bilesuparadize.lv
Wednesday,
September 1st, 2010, 19:00 - 23:00, in the Latvian
Academy of Culture

photo: Jevgenij Sisojev
Opening of the Season. Meeting in JAM.
Warming up is on
Inese
Auziņa this time. She is happy to share her
experience from the intensive workshop, led by Nancy Stark
Smith in Moscow, this summer.
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