We invite you on workshop led by Pavel Zustiak, choreographer from New York.  The workshop that will take place in Stanica just before the KioSK festival of contemporary dance and theatre: Present Body, 19.-21. 7. (improvisation workshop, leader: Pavel Zuštiak)

The another planned workshop of activist theatre OUT OF THE NOW INTO THE NOW is cancelled.

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Present Body
Improvisation Workshop with Pavel Zuštiak

July 19-21, 2010, 4:30-6pm
This workshop is for dancers, actors, theatre artists both experienced and beginners. Through games and simple tasks we will learn how to be present on stage and simultaneously aware of the overall image on stage that we create together as a group. How to be free from the past and future? How to handle what was set in rehearsal and yet stay open to what is happening in the given moment? How to be aware of what I am doing as an individual and my place within the group at the same time?

(c) Ian Douglas

The objectives in this class are to develop conscious presence while improvising in performance; to amplify live time in the performance space; to support performers in developing and enhancing skills connecting technique to composition; to introduce major theories of composition and improvisation; and to introduce individual artists to the concerns which occur while under the conditions of ensemble improvisation.

Pavel Zuštiak, born in Košice, is a choreographer, performer and sound designer based in New York City. Known for sophisticated, multidisciplinary works with piercing emotional content and abundant surrealist imagery that explore “the darker shades of human behavior” (The New Yorker), he has created a repertory of original works and collaborating commissions. His signature style merges the non-narrative qualities of dance with the image-based forms of theatre and film to create innovative, content-based, non- linear work that reaches viewers as totalizing multi-sensory experiences. A 2010 Guggenheim Fellow and 2010 Alpert Award nominee, his choreographic work has been also recognized by the 2009 Princess Grace Foundation Residency Award co-presented by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, by selection as a 2008–09 Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research, and with the 2007 Princess Grace Award for Choreography. More information available at www.palissimo.com

Workshop contact: Martina Filinová, martina@stanica.sk, 0907497481, Workshop fee: (3 sessions) 15,- EUR / 10,- EUR (students).

Accommodation in Stanica or outside in tents for free (bring your own sleeping bags or tents). If you prefered to stay in hotel, we can help you with booking of the hotel or student dormitory.

Workshop OUT OF THE NOW INTO THE NOW - cancelled