▪   International contemporary dance festival Time To Dance

 ▪   Time To Dance improvisations, sketches  

 ▪   Workshops at the art schools

 ▪   International Dance Day

 

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April 29 and May 1, 2011

INTERNATIONAL 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

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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!

 

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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.

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JUne 10 - 16 , 2011in Riga

 

International dance festival 

 

Time To Dance 2011

 

 June 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!

 

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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

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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 company’s 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.

 

It’s 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 couldn’t 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

 

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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

 

 

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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!

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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 Žitluhina

 

Both performances will be also included in the program of International contemporary dance festival TIME TO DANCE 2011.

 

 

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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 Franklin® 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.

 

 

 

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June 13 - 16

International contemporary dance festival

Time To Dance 2011

 

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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 “Biļešu paradīze” booking-offices, and www.bilesuparadize.lv .

Price – 7 Ls. For students and seniors – 5 Ls.

 

 

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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.

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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.

 

 

 

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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:     19:00–21:30;
Saturday, October 2:     11:00-17:30 ( break - 1 hour );

Sunday, October 3: 11:00-17:30 ( break - 1 hour );

Saturday night: JAM session!

Sunday night: Time To Dance, improvisations, sketches

 

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RUSLAN ‘SANTAH’

Ruslan Santah is 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.

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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.

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REGISTRATION AND QUESTIONS TO:

Inese Auziņa, inese@kontaktpunkts.lv, t.+371 2 9262198

http://kontaktpunkts.blogspot.com

 

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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.

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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

 

 

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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 O’Connor 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

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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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