Evening programme

Recognizing feminine nature through folk dance and searching for inner core with a help of expressive dance.When we get in touch with ourself, we as well find our feminine nature and develop our particularities. Dancing is also a way which help us build our inner autonomy.

Oriental dances come from ancient fertility ceremonial folk dances.The dance was born in temples. In time of pharaohs, pristesses whirled their bodies and waved with their bellies, hoping that Hator, the godess of love and fruitfulness would posses them. Classical oriental dance is a mixture of various dance styles coming from India, Persia, Turkey and Egipt. Movements of pelvis, hips and chest are typical. With particular quick movement of pelvis, called shimmy, you can reach special feelings, wich connect dancer to him or herself. It also has selfhealing influence on body and spirit. The dance is designed for physical and spiritual relaxation, as well as to get to know your own body and to discover various ways of expressing yourself. A dancer must surrender to the rhythm of music and through his body express his feelings. It is danced by men and women these days.

The workshop focuses on developing awareness of the body, its functions and movement possibilities. It aims at finding individual ways to get in contact and communicate with the body. Aware of our own bodies and developing empathy for others, we will set out on a journey towards understanding and harmony through contact, improvisation, dance, joy…

We will be finding our own ways to drink in even the smallest (often unnoticeable) movement, to accept and allow for the energy lurking deep inside and freedom in a surprising and unplanned dance. www.iwonaolszowska.pl

Iwona Olszowska
is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and former founder and artistic director of Experimental Dance Studio EST in Kraków, Poland.

She has studied contemporary dance, bodywork: elements of Body Mind Centering, Laban, Alexander Feldenkrais techniques in New York at Movement Research, Jose Limon, Dance Space, and on the workshops in Poland. She took classes at George Mason University and University of Alabama and University of Calgary.

Iwona got an ArtsLink scholarship founded by Soros Foundation for six weeks residency in NY.

She showed her work in Estonia, Moldavia, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Czech republic, USA.

Michał Ratajski – Founder of the webpage www.contactimprovisation.eu devoted to CI, and an unofficial association Greycoloured Shamans actively promoting CI. Michał has been organizing numerous CI workshops all over Poland, and cooperating with Contact Quarterly (USA; www.contactquarterly.com) - CI magazine edited by the CI founders. According to him, it is a JAM (jam session – improvised CI dance session) that makes the best CI teacher, and a one-on-one dance meeting that is the best learning practice.

Dancing it is not doing mechanical movements, dancing is giving meaning to the movement so that we remember that we can choose the sense we want to give to our experiences, to our lives.

Dancing helps us to remember that we are co creators of our own reality, that we are reflections of God....

Dancing it’s a natural and joyous way to regain our wholeness, healing and bringing together what we feel, think and do. Circle dance is the celebration in group of the integration of all our lost parts. Dancing takes us "home".

“Ljubic” Jordi Brito

Sacred /Circle Dance Facilitator
Trained in Spain and in the United Kingdom.

He leads Circle Dance, Rituals and workshops internationally (Portugal, France, Spain, Holland, Croatia and Slovenia….)

He offers workshops of dance and combines them with rituals and other creative expressions. He has developed, after some years of experimenting, three complete workshops that help people to contact who they really are in different depths. The Medicine Wheel Life Path, The Dancing & Drawing Mandalas Experience and the Ritual of the Labyrinth. He occasionally works with other facilitators on the basis of enriching each other work. He has made also beautiful choreography work and uses different techniques to support his activities: sound (crystal bowl) colour & light, breathing and other exercises and guided meditations

Satsang circles –Šambala group (Matej Perih: guitar, vocal Simon Kozamernik: keyboard, djembe, vocal, Franc Korošec: didgeridoo)

Satsang in Sanscrit means uniting (Sangha) in silence (Sat). Meditation is composed of three
phases. In first phase we dance, sing or just surrender to the music performed by the musicians. After each musical part we standstill and we simply »are« in our inner silence.
The second phase is an ancient tibetian murmur technics, which on physical level revives cells, on metaphysical level fills chakras and lifts kundalini energy. In third phase we sit or
lie and give up to listening to the words of masters of wisdome.

www.sambala.si

For centuries live energy and vitality have been the most essential natural characteristics of Irish dancing. These dances are danced to different rhythms such as jigs or reels and can be danced either individually or in group and in either soft or hard shoes.

The movement becomes a beautiful art which captures not only the space below the feet but also the space all around us.

www.irskiplesi.com

Rhythm in a classical oriental dance

The workshop will introduce oriental dance with different rhythms which are used in music of the classical oriental dance, we'll learn how to recognize them and how to dance. Every day workshop will be devoted to one rhythm, recognizing the pace of the music and dancing on the characteristics of the rhythm. We will learn rhythms: 1.ajub and malfuf, 2 maksum, 3 baladi, 4, saidi, 5 fellahi, 6 masmudi Kebir, 7 halidzi.

http://www.etnodance.net/orientalski_plesi