19.06 and 20.06.2023 @ 11.00-12.30 at UGD
Practising (re-)orienting
In this re-orienting practice, we will start with the question “what difference does it make what we are oriented toward?” and move on not only forwards, but also backwards. Moved by the Feldenkrais-inspired principle of practicing curiosity, we will together orient ourselves towards the senses, sensations, body parts, movements and sounds that are usually underrepresented and marginalised. What are the things that we are leaving behind, behind our backs? Moving in-between these questions, we will play around with scoring sensations, practicing anticipation and developing telepathic connections.
Nastya Dzyuban works with dance and choreography. She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and currently resides in Giessen, Germany. Since 2015, Nastya has been developing her artistic practice and creating performative works, mostly in collaboration with close friends and colleagues. She is interested in intersections of the dispositives of theatre and choreography, as well as in notions such as potentiality, migration, the notion of the common. Her works have been shown at festivals in Kiev, Frankfurt, Bochum and Mannheim. In 2021 Nastya became a fellow of danceWEB under the mentorship of Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies. Nastya graduated MA program “Choreography and Performance” in Giessen and currently works as a freelance choreographer, dancer and performer in Gießen and Frankfurt am Main.
Viktorija Ilioska is a Macedonian choreographer and performer living and working between Northern Macedonia and Germany. For over 10 years she has been actively working on programs to promote and develop contemporary dance, both in collaboration with institutions and strengthening the independent scene. Since 2010 she has been a member of Nomad Dance Academy, creating connections and collaborations in the local and national context of the Balkan region. Viktorija holds a Master’s degree in Choreography and Performance from the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies at Justus Liebig University. She plays with different forms of provocation and often explores notions of labor, identity, and female representation in public space in her work.
Lee Mun Wai is a choreographer and dancer who works freelance between his two residences – Berlin and Singapore. He graduated from the Master of Choreography and Performance (MA CuP) program at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Germany in July 2021. His current dance and choreographic practice insists on a relational permeability between himself and his environment. Recent projects Mun Wai has been involved in include On Display (2021), his own solo premiered at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, as part of the Tanzfestival Rhein Main; Oracle and Sacrifice In The Woods (2021) & Thyestes Brüder! Kapital (2019) by German choreographer/director Claudia Bosse; Mark (2017) by Singaporean choreographer Daniel Kok; and There Is Speficifisfety (2018), a collaboration with Malaysian choreographer/dancer Lee Ren Xin.
KULTRENING is organized in collaboration with the Dance Department, Film Academy UGD and it is part of the Interdisciplinary program of Lokomotiva. It is supported by Ministry of Culture of North Macedonia.
