The Summer Academy is organized within Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery is a Creative Europe project (2023-2026) created by Central Europe Dance Theatre – CEDT (Hungary), Bunker (Slovenia), HIPP (Croatia), Krakow Dance Theatre (Poland), M Studio (Romania) and Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts (Sweden) to foster local development of the contemporary dance fields.
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Vitlycke-CPA’s participation in Beyond Front@ is co-financed by Swedish Arts Council and Västra Götalandsregionen.
19.06 - 21.06
The Summer Dance Academy is a 10-day training, development, and artistic research workshop program led by an international team of choreographers: Milan Tomašik (SI), Matija Ferlin (HR) and Francesco Scavetta (SE/IT). The Academy will conclude with a public presentation, where participants will showcase the work they have developed throughout the workshop program.
This Academy is organised within Beyond Front@ project and will gather a group of 12 dancers from project’s partner countries: Sweden, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Hungary.
As a dancer from these countries, you can send in your application for participation in the Summer Dance Academy until 20 April. Read more and apply here: https://vitlycke.org/schedule_events/358
19 – 21 June – Poetic Body workshop by Milan Tomášik
Where attention goes energy flows – Poetic Body workshop represents a body that is fully present, alive, and engaged. It is an ongoing, immersive practice built on experience of Happy Feet and Playful Presence that draws on inclusive approaches and techniques such as contemporary dance, improvisation, and composition. It incorporates the concept of the body as an instrument or medium capable of expressing and embodying diverse movement qualities, rhythm, tension, emotions, and immaterial.
Milan Tomášik (SK/SI) is a choreographer, performer, dancer, and teacher, with twenty years of professional performance experience, collaborating with diverse artists across Europe. He is co-founder of the Les SlovaKs dance collective with whom he created and performed critically-acclaimed works internationally. His choreographic experience includes commissioned works for companies, theatres and schools. Milan is regularly invited as a guest teacher around the world to deliver his signature workshop Poetic Body. He has been a recipient of the Dance Web Scholarship at ImpulsTanz Festival (AT) and an award for the solo performance Off-beat at international festival Cortoindanza in Cagliari, Sardinia (IT). www.milantomasik.com