DANCE SEMINAR WITH BARBARA KANE
Zoumbouleio Megaro
15 - 25.07. 2016 / 10:00-12:00
ANCIENT GREEK MYTHS, MUSIC BY GLUCK AND DUNCAN DANCE
Dance seminar with Barbara Kane
in collaboration with the French
dancer and teacher Françoise Rageau
This seminar includes a brief lecture on the modern-dance pioneer Isadora Duncan and her legacy in the contemporary age. The technique developed by Isadora Duncan will serve as the backbone in the workshop so as to better appreciate and understand the choreography to be developed in the second part of the daily workshop. The workshop will culminate in an open presentation by the participants at the Dance Megaron Studio.
Links will be drawn between Isadora Duncan’s dance style and the ancient Greek myths of Orpheus and Iphigenia, whose roots can be traced back to Mycenae and the Peloponnese, showcasing the characteristics of Duncan’s dance heritage, based on natural movement flow and historical themes, especially from ancient Greece.
By exploring group dances from Isadora Duncan’s repertoire, set to music by, among others, Gluck – whose compositions inspired several of her choreographies – the participants will experience the continuous, vibrant, fluid motion employed by Duncan even in technical exercises – a movement characterized by lightness, tension, awareness of weight.
All this will shed light on the fascinating change in dance expression that Isadora Duncan contributed to modern dance.
Participants will have the opportunity to express all this through the choreography to be studied for the public performance.
Barbara Kane
Barbara Kane discovered Duncan dance in 1968, thanks to a book by one of the great modern-dance pioneer’s adopted daughters, Irma Duncan. Barbara Kane went on to study under famous Duncan dance teachers in New York, including Lillian Rosenberg, Julia Levien, Hortense Kooluris. She was a member of Isadora Duncan Centenary Dance Company from 1976 to 1979. In 1979, Barbara Kane moved to England and in 1985 created her own dance company, Isadora Duncan Dance Group, with the support of Jetty Roels and Françoise Rageau.
Today, Barbara Kane is a preeminent Duncan dance teacher, having studied, during her European apprenticeship, under students of Lisa and Elizabeth Duncan (Duncan’s adopted daughters, who had founded schools in Prague and Paris), and in 1990 had the honor to study in Moscow under the successors of the great dance school founded there by Isadora.
Kane’s Isadora Duncan Dance Group specializes in Duncan’s group dances, and primarily seeks to foster teamwork.
Barbara Kane has choreographed several group pieces that accompany Duncan’s own pieces, a study on the Iphigenia in Tauris and one on the Iphigenia in Aulis. She is currently preparing a group piece inspired by Virginia Woolf’s The Waves.
Strongly believing that Duncan dance belongs to the community, Barbara Kane continues to pursue her training work in London and other European countries, teaching dance to adults and children, with or without disabilities, to the elderly and in institutions, youth centres, schools.
Françoise Rageau
After five years of classical dance, Françoise Rageau starts the Isadora Duncan Dance at the age of 13 with Madeleine Lytton (student Lisa Duncan). In the 1980s, Françoise Rageau learns the Renaissance dance repertoire with Madeleine Lytton and participated in her shows.
From 1984 to 1993, Françoise Rageau joined (Lisa Duncan and student assistant), working with her on the repertoire of dances of Isadora Duncan and Lisa Duncan and on her own choreography. In 1984, Françoise Rageau started working with Barbara Kane and participates in performances of "Isadora Duncan Dance Group" both in France and abroad (group created in 1985 and of which she is co-founder with Barbara Kane). In 1990, Françoise Rageau teaches dance of Isadora Duncan in Paris and becomes assistant to Barbara Kane for "Isadora Duncan Dance Group".
This seminar is open to dance school students (children aged 7 and older), dance students, professional and amateur dancers, as well as people with no previous dance experience.
Dance Seminar with Barbara Kane
Participation Fee: 70 €
Down payment: 20 €
Registration & Information:
Sandra Voulgari +30 6973 077 158
mail @ kalamatadancefestival.gr
Deadline for applications: Friday 8 July 2016
The down-payment is not refundable after the registration deadline.
The participation fee must be paid in full by the start of the seminar.
A special ticket price for festival events will be offered to the seminars participants.
DANCE SEMINAR WITH PAT CATTERSON
Kalamata Municipal Stadium
15 - 25.07. 2016 / 10:00-12:00
Dancing NOW
Dance seminar with Pat Catterson
The aim of this seminar is for participants to discover and experience the creative process used by the New-York-based choreographer in her recent work, including her 108th piece, entitled NOW. In this installation/performance/happening, her eight dancers in New York performed the choreography live via Skype together with nine dancers located in other countries. Spectators in New York watched the show on three different web sites, and viewers in 29 more countries had live streaming access.
In preparation for the seminar, participants will be sent dance phrases on Vimeo, which they will have to learn according to the choreographer’s specific instructions. Pat Catterson is particularly interested in the way each dancer perceives and experiences movement. Catterson will then observe and develop the participants’ performances, creating solos and duets. With the help of Sania Strimbakou, a dancer from Kalamata who participated in NOW, she will teach specific as well as improvisational material from the piece.
The seminar begins with a Cunningham-based warm-up, followed by creative work on repertoire. Moreover, in two afternoon workshops, Catterson will discuss the techniques, concepts and circumstances that gave rise to this creative process and this piece.
The seminar will culminate in a public performance on the last day.
Pat Catterson
The artistic career of New-York-based contemporary dancer, choreographer and researcher Pat Catterson is intimately linked with the history of contemporary American dance. She took her first steps in a historic venue, Judson Church, working with the great Yvonne Rainer. Since 1970, when she staged her first complete dance evening in New York, she has choreographed over one hundred pieces, worked with famous dance companies and taught in educational centres all over the world.
She danced for the first time in a piece by Yvonne Rainer in 1969, and since 1999 has worked with her as a dancer, rehearsal assistant and promoting the heritage of the earliest pieces by the American choreographer, touring with Rainer’s company in the U.S. and internationally.
Pat Catterson has received many awards by major institutions (Solomon R. Guggenheim Choreography Fellowship, Harkness Foundation, Fulbright Commission). A committed teacher, Catterson has taught at educational centres including Juilliard School, Merce Cunningham Studio, Sarah Lawrence College. Her articles and essays on contemporary dance research have appeared in magazines such as Ballet Review, Dance Research Journal, Getty Iris, Dance Magazine Online.
This is the second time she has collaborated with the Kalamata International Dance Festival, leading a contemporary dance workshop for professional dancers.
The seminar is addressed to dance students and professionals.
Contemporary Dance Seminar with Pat Catterson
Participation Fee: 120 €
Down-payment: 20 €
Registration & Information:
Ioanna Apostolou +30 6972 558 593
mail @ kalamatadancefestival.gr
Deadline for applications: Friday 8 July 2016
The down-payment is not refundable aſter the registration deadline.
The participation fee must be paid in full by the start of the seminar.
A special ticket price for festival events will be offered to the seminars participants.
WORKSHOP WITH CANDOCO DANCE COMPANY
Kalamata Municipal Stadium
21.7.2016 / 12:00-14:00
WORKSHOP WITH CANDOCO DANCE COMPANY
Led by: Megan Armishaw & Toke Broni Strandby
Join dancers from the leading contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers for a two hour practical workshop. Candoco company dancers will take participants through contemporary dance technique followed by creative tasks based on their current work; Beheld by Alexander Whitely and Notturnino by Thomas Hauert.
This workshop is open to disabled and non-disabled individuals aged 18+. No dance experience is required, just an interest and desire to move!
Candoco Dance Company is the company of disabled and non-disabled dancers, founded in 1991. We commission productions, created by world class choreographers for national and international touring and deliver an extensive learning programme to provide broad access to the highest quality of dance.
