C O L O N Y winter dance summit '22 re-UNITE

we are coming back for the 7th edition. live. Nida, February 14-20, 2022. we are back to re-search, re-imagine, re-think, re-treat, re-UNITE. program ☞ https://dancecolony.lt/program/ registration ☞ https://dancecolony.lt/registration/ A B O U T. The annual dance intensive aims to inhabit even more creative ideas and possibilities for dance professionals therefore it became ‘Winter Dance Summit’. Inviting creative movers to gather in the middle of the natural paradise of Nida (Lithuania). Due to challenging restrictions related to COVID-19 2021 transformed into COLONY room edition, but 2022 is here and we are ready to safely re-imagine, re-think, re-treat, re-UNITE live. 2021 was about finding that extra ROOM for new ideas and movement experiences to be inhabited into our mind, body, soul, and artistic carrier. 2022 is about the re-UNION with own and other body, with own and other ideas whilst researching what others have to share in the room, not on screen. We are ready to meet! Dance Colony is a search and the research platform for previously undiscovered movement territories and body landscapes, a chance to forge new friendships, to meet other movement professionals, to be inspired by creative thinkers and golden tips shared by the dance producers, overall to enrich oneself with a help of dance in a week-long dance-away experience. Each year we look for inspiring methods to cross the border: physical, mental, linguistic, cultural, artistic, pushing boundaries, connecting and inspiring us – the people of all nationalities and creative backgrounds. We are here to reunite our professional capacities and advance our creative souls and professional networks further. We truly believe that our Creative Minds inhabit our Intelligent Bodies. This year’s colonizers will be safely curated towards full body and mind experience by our international movement explorers from Spain, Poland, Russia, and Lithuania. Join us for the ride. I N C L U D E D. • COVID-19 free environment (participation fully vaccinated only); • The ability to join the C O L O N Y for a whole WEEK (Monday-Sunday) or join for a WEEKEND (Thursday-Sunday); • Dance workshops taught by the international dance and movement professionals; • Creative Self-management session; • Gaga dancers and improvisation sessions; • Contemporary and urban dance sessions; • Jazz fusion and Movement research sessions; • A Week revolving around dance, your carefully guided dance exploration in search of reunion of your body and mind. You will be able to concentrate on working on your body, mind, and professional development which we agree to call – dance. Exploring our creative capabilities and finding new comrades among the like-minded individuals attending the C O L O N Y • Peer to Peer mental exchange session; • Honest advice along with your career by dance professionals: choreographers, dancers, dance curators, and producers; • Dietary specially planned and curated by a professional chef; • Library full of inspiring readings around art and creativity. P R O G R A M / T E A C H E R S. we are back to re-search, re-imagine, re-think, re-treat, re-unite with: GAGA dancers / IMPROVISATION with Natalia Iwaniec (PL) FLOORWORK / BREAKORGANIC with Carlos Aller (ES) JAZZ FUSION / HOUSE / JAZZ NOT JAZZ / with Marina Pravkina (RU/ES) CONTEMPORARY with Ema Senkuviene (LT) HIP-HOP with Marius Edrigevicius aka Arni (LT) LOW AIR REPERTOIRE with Airida Gudaite and Laurynas Zakevicius (LT) NUTRITION with Dovydas Zenkevicius (LT) CREATIVE SELF-MANAGEMENT with Laurynas Zakevicius (LT) ☞ A full detailed program and schedule will be announced shortly. Get to know your teachers for a little bit more: CARLOS ALLER / FLOORWORK / BREAKORGANIC Carlos’s classes start with an inner meditation to improve body awareness and deepen the dancer’s movements. The classes are progressive, beginning with a warm-up and improvisation, and developing into higher complexity moves. In these classes, you will experience the junction between contemporary and urban dance. Carlos generally teaches floorwork, acrobatics, and repertoire from Frantics Dance Company. The classes embody a mixture of the tension of breakdance – hip-hop movements and the softness of contemporary dance. They strive to teach the dancer to listen and adapt to the flow of the music while infusing the dance with their own creative mark. MARINA PRAVKINA / JAZZ FUSION / JAZZ NOT JAZZ / HOUSE Marina develops an artistic path and improvisational dance language through the conception ‘Jazz not Jazz’. For the past years, she constantly worked on experimentation and research around textures of the sound and movement, the relation between musical instruments and the dancing body. Marina teaches UK jazz fusion and house dance styles, experimenting with footworks as an instrument for improvisation and “sound-texture” tools for the development of dance improvisation & practicing. NATALIA IWANIEC / GAGA DANCERS / IMPROVISATION From deep listening to the body to physical sensations. It’s a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, agility, and skills including coordination and efficiency while stimulating the senses and imagination. Natalia’s classes offer a workout that investigates form, speed, and effort while traversing additional spectrums such as those between soft and thick textures, delicacy and explosive power, and understatement and exaggeration. Natalia is guiding dancers through awakening numb areas, increasing awareness of habits, and improving the efficiency of movement inside multilayered tasks, and dancers are encouraged to connect to pleasure inside moments of effort. MARIUS EIDRIGEVIČIUS / HIP-HOP Marius is a virtuoso in hip-hop and house dance styles and has discovered the path of educator since 2011. Studying street styles in Sweden at Åsa Folkhögskola he gained a deep understanding of street dance elements. In 2021 under the curation of Low Air Marius has begun his way to the professional dance theatre stage starting to create the solo piece “Transforman”. Marius is ready to help you to colonize your body with a number of different hip-hop patterns and mix them with your individual rhythms no matter which dance background you are. He is ready to share his understanding of dance dynamics, dancing in different levels, energy, and flow. LAURYNAS ZAKEVICIUS / CREATIVE SELF-MANAGEMENT / LOW AIR REPERTOIRE How to build a sustainable life and navigate my career as an independent dance artist? This session provides some insights, tips, and tools for managing your everyday life and artistic career. Whilst dancing, creating, and being on tours with Low Air Laurynas he developed cultural management, networking, and production skills building new possibilities for Low Air company. Filling out a great number of open calls, applying for funding, managing productions, and touring from Greenland to Korea, from New York to French Riviera it seems to be the right time to share the “Do’s and Don’ts“. Possibilities are everywhere it is important for a dancer to understand and interpret them right. LOW AIR repertoire with dancer, choreographer, teacher, creative guide. Having delved into different dance styles and shared them in different ways on different platforms – on the underground dance floor, on television, on the theatre stage, Laurynas is often equated with the title of one of the best b-boys in Lithuania. He is one of the founders of Low Air dance theatre and has been awarded important awards in the field of dance and culture. Creative exercises and tasks help to develop our own personal movement, practice complex breaking transitions and the conceptual way of thinking that leads us to the new forms of dance. Dive into the creative mind of the choreographer while learning some bits of choreography which was enjoyed by spectators from Greenland to Korea. AIRIDA GUDAITE / LOW AIR REPERTOIRE LOW AIR repertoire with dancer, choreographer, teacher, creative guide. Having delved into different dance styles and shared them in different ways on different platforms – in the underground on the street dance floor, on television, on the theatre stage, Airida is often equated with a live dance encyclopedia. She is one of the founders of Low Air dance theatre, and has been awarded important awards in the field of dance and culture, she boldly expresses the dynamics of movement and music in her lessons. Dive into the creative mind of the choreographer while learning some bits of choreography which was enjoyed by spectators from Greenland to Korea. DOVYDAS ZENKEVIČIUS / NUTRITION Dovydas is a professional chef. Dovydas will not only prepare food but will also present everything that is important for a healthy, moving body diet. There is more than one interesting piece of advice waiting for participants: how to maintain a healthy and vibrant body during rehearsals and tours, how to take care of nutrient balancing, and, of course, learn to cook. If it’s not about dancing, it’s definitely about delicious food. F O O D / N U T R I T I O N. Your diet will be taken care of by a professional chef Dovydas Zenkevicius. A fully balanced diet is provided in the price. Participants of the program will have a chance to learn healthy dieting whilst helping the chef. Dovydas will also give a lecture on how to balance a dancer's diet, prepare snacks for a heavy training period, and much more. R O O M I N G. We will dance, eat and live in the Nida art colony: http://nidacolony.lt/en/colony Participants will be accommodated in comfortable rooms for 3-5 persons with individual or shared bathrooms. During the duration of the intensive, we will isolate ourselves in multifunctional inspiring rehearsal spaces of 350 sq. meters and more. P R I C E. GO FULL: €350 – 7 days (more than 36 hours of material) (Monday – Sunday) GO WEEKEND: €250 – 4 days (20 hours of material) (Thursday – Sunday) ☞ SAVE SOME: The price of the Colony will rise from the 31st of January, 2022. The new price will be FULL WEEK – €400 / WEEKEND – €300. The prices include: living at Nida Art Colony, healthy food, more than 36 hours of dance classes and workshops, and much more inspiring lectures. The travel to and from Nida Art Colony is not included in the price. If you need information on how to get there – feel free to contact us. PAYMENT INFORMATION: Every registered participant will receive an individual link to the PAYMENT information. In order to guarantee yourself a spot and fully register, you must pay full price before February 11th, 2022. P A S T. Proof that we had successfully colonized Nida before: 2021: room edition / o n l i n e 2020: https://vimeo.com/513997680 2019: https://vimeo.com/387525467 2018: https://vimeo.com/306428994 2017: https://vimeo.com/250987055 2016: https://vimeo.com/168842509 R E G I S T R A T I O N. https://dancecolony.lt/registration/ ASK FOR MORE: [email protected] Curated by LOW AIR Vilnius city dance theatre. Part of European network for dance makers STUDIOTRADE.