regular classes


[ U P C O M I N G ]
SUMMER COURSES!
short regular courses of 5 weeks, online and in-person, for you to keep in shape and at the same time enjoy a lazy summer flow
where: Zoom
type of class: summer course [in-person, online]
time: 19:30 - 21:00
BODY MOVEMENT
[summer course]

Aimed at social dancers of all the levels, this course is about improving your body movement, coordination, flexibility and rhythm! The course's activities comprise body isolations, stretching exercises, coordination, body musicality, also education on anatomical aspects of basic movement.

Duration: 5 weeks, 5 x 1,5 sessions, June 27 - July 25 /2023
Price: 110 euro

Level:
open / professionals / non-professionals / all levels
where: the House of Giant Steps
type of class:summer course [in person, online]
time: 19:30 - 21:00
JAZZ TECHNIQUES
[summer course]

Dancing to jazz music from swing & bebop, to modern & contemporary.
Learning techniques, rhythms, steps, improvisation approaches. Putting the languages of swing, authentic jazz, UK jazz & bebop to contemporary perspective of individual creativity.


Duration: 5 weeks, 5 x 1,5h sessions, June 28 - July 26 /2023
Price: 110 euro

Level: intermediate & up, professionals / non-professionals
[IN-PERSON & ONLINE]
Regular Classes
where: in-person at the House of Giant Steps & ONLINE in Zoom
type of class: group sessions
time: Wednesdays, 19:30 - 21:00
[ongoing]
Jazz techniques
Dancing to jazz music from swing & bebop, to modern & contemporary.
Learning the techniques, the rhythms, the steps, improvisation approaches. Putting the languages of swing, authentic jazz, UK jazz & bebop to contemporary perspective of individual creativity.

Duration: 8 weeks, 12 hours, 19.04 - 7.06/2023
Level:
everybody, open with dance experience, teachers of social dance, amateur social dancers, beginners and advanced.

Price in person: 160 euro / 140 euro early bird if paid before 29.03/ 170 euro after the course starts on 19.04
Price online: 150 euro / 130 early bird if paid before 29.03 / 160 euro after the course starts on
Regular Classes
where: in-person at the House of Giant Steps& ONLINE in Zoom
type of class: group sessions
time: June 12-16, Mon thru Fri, 7-9 PM CET
[upcoming]
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.

Duration: 1 week, 5 days, 10 hours
Level:
everybody, open with dance experience, teachers of social dance, amateur social dancers, beginners and advanced.

Price in person: 125 euro / 110 euro early bird if paid before 29.05
Price online: 100 euro / 90 early bird if paid before 29.05
[ONLINE and IN-PERSON]
Regular Classes
where: in-person / Zoom
type of class: group sessions
time:
tba
the IMMERSION Lab
[upcoming, start: October]
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
[ look at 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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