regular classes


[ start: SEPTEMBER 30 ]
NEW season of classes with Alina
at the House of Giant Steps!
in the upcoming autumn classes we let go of the idea of a regular weekly class, instead we will introduce absolutely new and experimental formats of studies for our students: more flexible and independent for all the levels!




[ONLINE]
Regular Classes
where: in Telegram chat
type of class: month of group sessions and individual work.
time: November 6 - 30 (make space for minimum 30 minutes of individual daily work)
NEW! Thinking the dance [tba]
On this course students are offered to learn the dance and critically think about it, from various perspectives and practices that help me to shape my dance, message and mission, and keep it nurtured daily. My proposition is to create a space where we think through the movement, and do it independently, everyone at its own rhythm according to their needs, coming together for a group discussions in the chat.

Throughout the course I will guide you and accompany you in the chat through a thoroughly prepared and structured dance and thinking practices: video tasks to dance, texts to read and reflect upon, texts to write, dance pieces and other inspirational video footage to work with consciously, movement fundamentals and anatomy materials to familiarize with and contribute to the consciousness of how you move, audio messages with necessary explanations, music to listen and to practice to, emotional support and accompaniment from me in the chat throughout all the month. The tasks are given to you daily or once in 2-3 days, depending on how much effort and time the task demands. I will go through all the tasks with you and live this experience together with students.

Duration: 1 month
Level:
everybody, open with dance experience, teachers of social dance, amateur social dancers, beginners and advanced.

!! For this course to happen there should be minimum 10 people in the group. IMPORTANT: If you sign up for "Thinking the dance" course, make sure you make time to be actively involved in the courses' activities and group discussions.

Price: 90 euro
[IN-PERSON]
Regular Classes
where: in-person at the House of Giant Steps & ONLINE in Zoom
type of class: group sessions
time: puntual weekend intensives, date & time tba.
[coming soon]
Jazz techniques
This is the course where we focus on technical aspects of movement, based on Alina's approach to jazz dance from her individual style. Alina's technique is based on the languages of swing, authentic jazz, UK jazz & bebop, rethought in a contemporary perspective of individual creativity and spontaneous composition.

On our technical classes we are dancing to jazz music from swing & bebop, to modern & contemporary sophisticated improvisational music.

max. 6 in-person places available

1st intensive:
Sat, SEPTEMBER 30, 11:00 - 13:00
Wed, October 4, 19:00 - 21:00


Duration: coming soon
Level:
everybody, open with dance experience, teachers of social dance, amateur social dancers, beginners and advanced.

Price : 60 euro x 2 sessions, 35 euro x 1 session
Regular Classes
where: in-person at the House of Giant Steps& ONLINE in Zoom
type of class: group sessions
time: puntual weekend intensives, date & time tba.
[coming soon]
the POLYRHYTHMIC body
A holistic dance workshop that places rhythm and musicality as a central topic of the movement research and construction of your improvisation flow. On the workshop Alina is going to introduce her approach to train rhythms and develop polyrhythmic relations through the body movement and dance expression.

max. 8 in-person places available

Duration: tba
Level:
everybody, open with dance experience, teachers of social dance, amateur social dancers, beginners and advanced.

[ONLINE and IN-PERSON]
Regular Classes
where: in-person / Zoom
type of class: group sessions
time:
tba
the IMMERSION Lab
[upcoming, start: January 2024]
This is a 2 month long online/in-person course for those who want not only to research the dance technique, but also dive deep into the history of dance and ethics of "inspiration", locating the place of your creativity on the global map of dance, & define your perspective of creative thinking in dance.

The course consists of experimental-based movement research practice sessions in the mode of the 4 elements, as well as seminars and discussions on critical issues in dance such as decoloniality of cliched thinking, cultural appropriation and appreciation of world culture dances, etc. You will be given homework: articles to read, movies to watch, dance footage to analyze, as well as guidance to go deep inside yourself, listen to your body and finding your own ways of moving and being creative within the familiar languages of dance.

Level:
everybody, open with dance experience, teachers of social dance, amateur social dancers, beginners and advanced.
where: Zoom & in-person
type of class: individual sessions, max. 2 people
PERSONAL mentorship
individual course designed upon your request: apply for a mentorship with me with a doubt/request what you want to work on, considering my method might help, and we will find the best solution & schedule for you!

ideas what we could work on:
+ dance improvisation
+ footwork, body isolations, jazz techniques,
+ movement basics
+ 4 elements imagination research in dance
+ dance styles (UK jazz, swing, blues, authentic jazz, mambo, contemporary dance approaches)
+ your request!

minimum duration: 5 hours/month
level: any
[PRERECORDED]
Regular Classes
prerecorded series of courses
check here the prerecorded courses in various topics & practice at any convenient schedule!

online lectures about dance history
[ for the festivals ]
SINGULAR WORKSHOPS
workshop offers for the festivals of professional dance (contemporary) as well as social (jazz, swing & blues)
the POLYRHYTHMIC body
How many times, attending a musicality class, you heard "just feel the music!"? Exactly... Feeling the music is definitely important intuitive part of dance expression, but you can always dig deeper ;)
This workshop offers a holistic system of learning the dance that places rhythm and musicality as a central topic of the movement research and construction of your improvisation flow. On the workshop Alina is going to introduce her approach to train rhythms and develop polyrhythmic relations through the body movement and dance expression. The practices involve: work on pulse, rhythm, polyrhythms, accent, phrasing, body isolations, dance improvisation.

Level: open with previous dance experience, professional & social dancers.
Duration: minimum 2 hours.
the IMMERSION lab
The lessons consist of experimental-based movement research practice sessions framed by the 4 elements of nature. On these sessions you are guided to go deep inside yourself, listen to your body and finding your own ways of moving and being creative within the familiar languages of dance. The activities encompass an intense dance improvisation practice involving various approaches like imagination, somatic and anatomic, also with extra-dance activities like text, image, video, meditation.

Level: open with previous dance experience, professional & social dancers.
Duration: minimum 2 hours.
BODY MOVEMENT
One of the favourite courses of GS students, is the one where we are "refining" our instrument, which is our body. This workshop offers a methodological work on your physical capacities to deepen the technical possibilities of any movement & improvisation. Here we are working on body isolations, stretching, coordination & grounding, of course, in the key of improvisational music, to diversify the rhythmic decisions and enrich the musicality of the basic elements of our movement.

Level: open with previous dance experience, professional & social dancers.
Duration: minimum 1 hour
JAZZ TECHNIQUES
Alina's individual methodology and approach to jazz dance at its widest, distilled to a unique style of improvisation to any any jazz music: from traditional to contemporary. The techniques include movement from swing dance, authentic jazz, rare bebop style, as well as UK jazz and UK bebop. On this workshop you are going to learn a lot of footwork techniques, body coordination, rhythm and of course, style. The goal of this course is to make you dance comfortably to any "jazz" music and express your improvisation in any tricky musical complexity.

Level: open with previous dance experience, professional & social dancers.
Duration: minimum 1 hour
SOLO BLUES
Giving a tribute to the roots of African American dance and music, we go to the roots of the vernacular dance and learn the principles of its body construction and improvisation. Syncopated rhyhms, groovy music, body coordination and plasticity, original vocabulary, and of course, rhythm! It's also a lot of fun <3

Level: open with previous dance experience, professional & social dancers.
Duration: minimum 1 hour
DANCE HISTORY LECTURES
We all know how important is knowing what you dancing, where it comes from, or which culture you enter a dialogue with and in which way. Conferences, seminars, lectures and talks about dance history in general, and the history of the dances of non-eurocentric perspective, is the object of Alina's research. Currently finishing her PhD in Comparative Literature and Performance Studies at the University of Barcelona, researching about colonialism & contemporary choreography. Alina is sharing the fruit of her research on the SOUND from the Cat's Corner lectures, adapted for the events of social dance as well as for the professional academic environment. In her lectures Alina addresses such issues as corporeality & colonialism, body representation & power relations in professional and social dance practices, also the history of African American social dances.

Level: open, professional & social dancers.
Duration: minimum 1,5 hours


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