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.

check here the prerecorded courses in various topics & practice at any convenient schedule!

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 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.

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

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

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

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