How to balance structure and creative freedom when working with Movement, dance and Choreography? What is choreography and how can it be used in dance and theatre performances, music videos and other projects including those with amateurs, children and adolescents?

Tanec Praha.org invites you to an educational and creative seminar aimed at dance educators, dancers as well as actors, theatre educators, choreographers, teachers and anyone who wants to work in a participatory and creative way with dance and choreography.

The 16th seminar will present German-Israeli choreographer, dancer and movement teacher Lior Shneior. In his weekend workshop, he focuses on effective teamwork in diverse groups with different abilities, styles, and interests. His method offers a way to create a structure for movement and choreography in dance and theatre work, as well as in educational projects, even without dance or choreographic "know-how". Previous knowledge is not necessary!

Schedule | Studio Krenovka:

21. 9. | 9:30–13:00, 14:30–16:30
22. 9. | 9:30–13:00, 14:30–16:30

Registration for the seminar HERE.

Do you want to know more? 

Contact us via email ema.slechtova@tanecpraha.eu. 

Capacity is limited.

Where: Studio Krenovka, Husitská 22, Praha 3

In 2023/2024 the project Dance for Schools 2023/2024 (project no.: 0313000185) is supported by the EU through NextGeneration EU, the National Recovery Plan and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic from the Status of the Artist programme. We are also grateful for the support of the City Hall of Prague and the Municipality
of Prague 3.

Lior Shneior                       

Lior Shneior is a German-Israeli choreographer, dancer and movement instructor. 

Born in a kibbutz in Israel, he completed his dance training at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and then worked as a dancer and choreographer in New York City from 2008 to 2012. He has been living and working in Berlin since 2012. Shneior is the artistic director of Berlin Moves, a Berlin-based project. Since 2016 it has collaborated with more than 300 young dancers and artists and has built a unique bridge between urban movers, media artists, fashion designers, singers and composers, as well as between street dance and classical music, underground, pop and high culture.   

Shneior's work deliberately moves on the line between art and education.

www.liorshneior.com
www.berlinmoves.com

More about the method:

The method was developed by the dancer, choreographer and dance pedagogue Lior Shneior, who is also the artistic director and founder of BERLIN MOVES.

As a teacher and choreographer, Shneior has analyzed and developed various methods, on the basis of which, together with the theater pedagogue Maike Plath, he developed the publication and card set "Das Methoden Repertoire Tanz und Bewegung" (The Method Repertoire of Dance and Movement), which was published by Beltz in 2017.

In addition, Shneior continues to develop his method and gives workshops and lectures in the field of dance education at numerous institutions in Germany and abroad.

His method and publication influences the work of many dance and theater educators and teachers, who use it as a valuable tool for creative movement work with young people.

In the card set, dance and choreographic knowledge is broken down into its individual elements, making it understandable even for amateurs. The individual cards can be combined in any way. Working with them is never fixed, but offers a starting point for a variety of different possible interpretations. Thus, very simple movement sequences as well as complex choreographies can be developed. This method of working is suitable for a wide variety of groups; children, young people and adults, amateurs and professionals, as well as mixed groups in which choreographies are developed together as a group process. 

Tanec Praha invites you to an educational and creative seminar intended for dance and music teachers working with children, teachers of dance and physical education at primary and secondary schools and students of relevant fields interested in working with children. The seminar is part of the Dance for Schools project, which has been bringing creative movement education to schools since 2006. This can be included, for example, as part of the additional subject Dance and Movement Education.
The seminars do not ensure the qualification of Dance and Movement Education teachers but focus primarily on additional knowledge and new inspirations that can enrich teaching and creative movement work with larger groups of children generally.

The 15th seminar will feature three interesting personalities from the field who will share with you their theoretical and practical knowledge for dance work with children.

An independent creative producer from London, Lia Prentaki, will share her extensive experience in the promotion and distribution of dance works aimed at children and young audiences. She will also reveal a methodology for obtaining valuable feedback from children.

Jakub Zeman, a practitioner and teacher of Fighting Monkey Practice, will bring a sample of this inspiring method in the form of a four-hour workshop. The open workshop will offer practical creative tools for physical and cognitive development, as well as a thought apparatus that supports the use of material in diverse applications (personal practice, athletic development, art, therapeutic practice, etc.). The workshop is open to dancers, artists, athletes, physiotherapists, educators and all movement enthusiasts who want to explore and test fresh, innovative ideas to refine and develop their practice.

Instructor Karolína Gilová, a dancer and dance and movement teacher, will focus on the fundamentals of dancing with a partner transferred to children's dance and working with a group. You will try the method of working through principled improvisation and specific technical exercises that can be applied even for "non-dancer" children and beginners. She will share her experience of teaching Dance and Movement Education at primary school.

Schedule
26.1, Friday
15:30 – 18:30 |Lia Prentaki: How to promote creativity for children

27.1, Saturday
9:30 - 11:30 and 12:00 - 14:00 |Jakub Zeman: Fighting Monkey Practice
15:30 – 18:30 |Lia Prentaki: Children as dramaturges

28.1, Sunday
10:00 – 13:00 |Karolína Gilová: The fundamentals of dancing with a partner transferred to children's dance

Do you want to know more about the instructors and the program of the seminar? Contact us.
Applications and information: martina.filinova@tanecpraha.eu
Capacity is limited.
Where: Studio Krenovka, Husitská 22, Praha 3
Fee: CZK 1,800 / adult; CZK 1,000 / student

Tanec Praha invites you to an educational and creative seminar intended for dance and music teachers working with children, teachers* of dance and movement education at primary and secondary schools, and students of relevant fields interested in working with children.

The seminar is part of the Dance for Schools project, which since 2006 has been bringing creative movement education to schools, which can be included, for example, within the supplementary subject Dance and Movement Education. The seminars do not ensure the qualification of Dance and Movement Education teachers but are primarily focused on additional knowledge and new inspirations that can enrich teaching and creative movement work in general for larger groups of children.

The 14th seminar is based on experience with the project and responds to specific impulses from teaching in schools. Together with the instructors, we will look for a pathway to children's emotions, voice and rhythm. Together with dance-movement therapist Rena Milgrom, we will focus on various emotional situations that we can encounter in children when teaching or performing in front of an audience. With the musician Tomáš Kerle, we will discover the breadth and possibilities of rhythmic techniques, instruments and their use. The trio of instructors will be joined by musician Gabriela Vermelho, thanks to whom we will discover new possibilities of vocal expression and its connection with breath, movement and learning. In keeping with tradition, there is also a sample lesson of the Dance for Schools project led by Alena Dittrichová, with music by Tomáš Kerle.

When: 6 – 8 October 2023,
Where: Studio Krenovka, Husitská 22, Prague 3
Registration and info: martina.filinova@tanecpraha.eu
Participation fee: CZK 1,600 / adult; CZK 900 / student
Workshop capacity is limited.

More information and schedule:
6.10, Friday
15:30 - 18:30 - Rena Milgrom: Listening with the Body
What if anxiety comes? Stage fright? Shame? Defiance?... Emotions we can't deal with effectively? Let's try to listen. Go elsewhere. During the seminar, based on our own experiences, we will look for ways to deal with these emotions.

7.10, Saturday
10:00 - 10:45 - sample lesson of the Dance for Schools project (Alena Dittrichová, Tomáš Kerle)
11:00 - 17:30 - Tomáš Kerle: Path of Rhythm
A music seminar for everyone who wants to deepen their perception of rhythm in a fun way and open the doors to creativity. During the workshop, we will first rhythmically awaken our bodies through bodypercussion techniques in combination with voice and movement. We will also learn the basic technique of playing the cajon and various other percussive instruments and try creating rhythms through the system of so-called rhythm cells. In the second half of the workshop, we will try to play some basic rhythmic accompaniments based on both traditional African music and modern music genres. In order for the resulting music to acquire much-needed colour and depth, we will focus at the end of the seminar on playing in a group and demonstrate the possibilities of communication between individual players, instruments and rhythmic layers.

8.10, Sunday
10:00 - 15:30 - Gabriela Vermelho: Working with the voice in dance education
During the workshop, we will strengthen the voice using various voice and breathing techniques, thanks to which we will become aware of and deepen the connection between the breath and the voice. In practice, we will focus on techniques and exercises that will strengthen and amplify the voice enough to be able to use it comfortably and safely when conducting lessons even in the sound-demanding conditions of large and intensive groups of children.
We will also connect and deepen vocal expression with movement. We will realize the voice as a possibility of another teaching tool. We will touch on the possibility of using the voice as a supporting tool for dance – a tool that can help stimulate movement, emotions, relax the body, help children discover their possibilities of movement creativity, supported by sound, word, even tone, which will not only be seen, but also heard. We will show in a practical way the possibilities of various sound and voice games.

Instructors:
Rena Milgrom, CMA, RSME, DMT
Instructor of somatic movement and therapy, dance-movement therapist, dancer. She has been leading the somatic art education program for more than ten years. She leads movement workshops in connection with voice and creative arts, teaches Laban's movement analysis abroad and in the Czech Republic.
https://www.somatika.cz/rena-milgrom/

Tomáš Kerle
Percussion player, creator of electronic and experimental music, rhythm teacher, musician of the Dance for Schools project. He teaches children, adults and educators how to play African drums, cajons and various percussive instruments as part of the specialized seminars Path of Rhythm and Tambourine. He has provided live musical accompaniment in many dance-theatre projects. As a member of the Topos Kolektiv ensemble, he focuses on experimental sound-performative work in various indoor and outdoor spaces.

Gabriela Vermelho
Violinist, violist, quinton player, singer, composer, actress and musical experimenter. She works in the field of classical music, chanson, jazz and alternative rock. She is dedicated to educational work and to teaching violin, singing and voice therapy, and also works as a musician in the Dance for Schools project. She performs solo, but also with leading artists of the current musical generation (Gadrew Way string quartet, GaRe music group and others). She has played at many important music festivals at home and abroad.
http://www.gabrielavermelho.cz/

We wish to thank the following for their financial support of the Dance for Schools project:

Tanec Praha invites you to an educational and creative seminar designed for dance teachers working with children, teachers of art schools and elementary schools, and students of relevant fields interested in working with children.

The 13th seminar will feature an inspiring personality, the German-Israeli choreographer Lior Shneior, who often combines art with education in his work and works with children and adolescents from different social groups. In the form of an intensive workshop, the participants will be introduced to the original dance mixer method, inspired by Maike Plath, which enables young people to create dance even without the need for dance education (2nd grade of elementary school). Karin Korčáková, a teacher in the Montessori program at the Na Beránku elementary school, will be available at the seminar for consultation in the field of pedagogy. She will introduce the participants to the possibilities of communication between the teacher and the child and the partnership approach in education, even in more complex situations within the class group.

The seminar is part of the Dance for Schools project, which has been bringing creative movement lessons to schoolchildren since 2006, and which schools can include, for example, in the supplementary subject Dance and Movement Education (DME). The seminars do not ensure the qualification of DME instructors but focus primarily on additional knowledge and new inspirations that can enrich teaching and creative work in general among a larger group of children.

"Tanz - Mischpult" (Dance Mixer) Method 
The "Tanz Mischpult" (the Dance Mixer) is a set of large cards made to introduce dance to anyone who is interested in experimenting with dance and choreographic methods without necessarily needing any prior dance education. Here the students themselves become the directors and choreographers, with the help of the cards. 
This publication is a collaboration with the theatre educator master Maike Plath, who developed the "mischpult" concept and published several card sets with different themes. The focus is on the participative creative work with teenagers and the concept of "open knowledge", which is also the essence of the "Tanzmischpult".
The "Mischpult" is a great method for anyone who is interested in experimenting with dance composition study.
On the front of each card there is a key word – pointing to a movement or choreographic element. On the back is the explanation for this element. The cards are placed on the floor, allowing the students to experiment and to build their own choreographies. 
The methods in this publication are based on the experience that Lior Shneior gathered as a movement and choreography teacher. In doing so, he developed methods for working with dance composition and choreography methods in different contexts.

Tentative schedule: Saturday 21.1. 9:00–18:30 and Sunday 22.1. 9:00–16:00
Where: Studio Krenovka, Husitská 22, Praha 3
Registration: Please fill the form here
Info: martina.filinova@tanecpraha.eu 
Fee: CZK 1,800 / students: CZK 1,000
The workshop will be in English with interpretation; consultation with Karin Korčáková in Czech.
Capacity of the workshop is limited.

Lior Shneior                       
Lior Shneior is a German-Israeli choreographer, dancer and movement instructor. Born in a kibbutz in Israel, he completed his dance training at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and then worked as a dancer and choreographer in New York City from 2008 to 2012. He has been living and working in Berlin since 2012. Shneior is the artistic director of Berlin Moves, a Berlin-based project. Since 2016 it has collaborated with more than 300 young dancers and artists and has built a unique bridge between urban movers, media artists, fashion designers, singers and composers, as well as between street dance and classical music, underground, pop and high culture. Shneior's work deliberately moves on the line between art and education.

Tanz-Mischpult video trailer 1
Tanz-Mischpult video trailer 2
www.liorshneior.com
www.berlinmoves.com

Mgr. Karin Korčáková
Karin is a teacher in the Montessori program at the Na Beránku elementary school in Prague 12 – coordinator of the 1st three-year program.
"In her words, Karin never dreamed of teaching, so she has a high school diploma in analytical chemistry and experience in various companies related to chemistry or business. It was not until the birth of her own children that she began to reflect on education, on unequal relationships between teachers and pupils, on preparation for life in a changing society... and it's no wonder that Maria Montessori's philosophy of education appealed to her.
She completed a diploma course in Montessori pedagogy and was gradually drawn into this world, first as a co-lecturer in a children's group, later as an assistant in a Montessori class at the Na Beránku elementary school. There she finally started her career as a teacher. She studied special pedagogy remotely at the Jan Amos Comenius University and at the Catholic University in Ružomberok. In the end, she landed at the school in the first three-year program, where she has been teaching since 2010."
She completed many courses on the topic of Montessori education, and she also worked as an accompanying teacher in the Live Teacher program or in the Creative Partnership for Equal Opportunities project – School for the Future (https://www.erudio-montessori.cz/kopie-z-petra-miticka/).
Communication between teacher and child is closely related to education. She completed the first course on the partnership approach in education and training in the now notorious Respect and Be Respected approach by psychologist PhDr. Jana Nováčková. Jiřina Majerová's MBTI courses are among the most important, where she learned that the behaviour and thinking of people of different personality types can be better understood thanks to typology. She acquired additional skills in leading children towards responsibility and independence and working with their own emotions in Michal Dubec's courses.

Seminar Dance to schools: The Art of Intuitive Playing
Sept 23 -25, 2022, Studio Krenovka, Husitská 22, Prague 3

Workshop for dancers, dance and school teachers working with children. Tanec Praha z.ú. invites you to an educational and creative seminar designed for dance teachers working with children, teachers of art schools and elementary schools and students of relevant fields interested in working with children.
The seminar is part of the Dance for Schools project, which has been bringing creative movement lessons to schoolchildren since 2006, and which schools can include, for example, in the supplementary subject Dance and Movement Education (DME). The seminars do not ensure the qualification of DME instructors but focus primarily on additional knowledge and new inspirations that can enrich teaching and creative work in general among a larger group of children.

The seminar follows the successful workshop of the same name, which was implemented by Tanec Praha in 2018 in cooperation with one of the founders of the Intuitive Pedagogy movement, Thomas Pedroli. This year, Dieter Schwartz, also an experienced instructor of Intuitive Pedagogy, founder of the Human Play Academy, and originally a conductor and composer, will take over the baton.
Developing the principles of intuitive pedagogy in a dance community environment has proven to be very rewarding. Intuitive pedagogy as an alternative pedagogical approach can be a very beneficial and supportive method for the creative development of a child's personality, but also for working with a group, which is essential in dance pedagogical work.
In these three days of intensive workshops, we will move through a broad variety of exercises and games. Typical of this kind of playing are the non-competitive aspects, the severe way of working together, the intense joy that comes up, the alternation between excitement and silence and the inner discipline that arises out of the seeming chaos of movement. We do pure bodywork as well as working with sticks, veils, ropes, balls and furniture. Now and then we will sit down and have talks about backgrounds, didactics and all the other questions you will have. “The child in you wants to be born again!”(Thomas Pedroli)

Dieter Schwartz. Born in 1967 in Germany. Orchestra conductor and composer, co-founder of the "Human Play Academy" and "Pedagogy 4 Future". For more than 10 years active as a lecturer for Intuitive Pedagogy at various universities and seminars in Eastern and Western Europe.
https://humanplayacademy.com/
https://www.dieterschwartz.com/

Registration form here.
More info: martina.filinova@tanecpraha.eu
Workshop capacity is limited, registration until 9/15/2022.
Participation fee: 1800 CZK/student: 1000 CZK
The workshop will be in English with translation. 

The seminar is accredited by the DVPP of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Accreditation can only be obtained by teaching staff, i.e. physical education teachers at primary schools, teachers of dance subjects at secondary schools, secondary schools, or leisure teachers who lead dance clubs, teachers leading school dance clubs.
Other graduates of the seminar will receive a certificate of completion.

Harmonogram:
23. 9.  – 15:00 – 19:00
24. 9. – 10:00 – 13:00 a 14:00 – 17:00 
25. 9. – 9:00 – 12:00 a 13:00 – 16:00

28 May 2022, 10:00 – 17.00, PONEC – the dance venue
www.divadloponec.cz

Tanec Praha z.ú. invites you to an educational and creative seminar for dance instructors working with children, art school teachers and primary school teachers, as well as students of relevant fields interested in working with children.

The seminar is part of the Dance for Schools project, which since 2006 has been bringing creative physical education to children in schools, which schools can include, for example, in the supplementary course Dance and Movement Education (DME). The seminars do not ensure the qualification of DME instructors but focus primarily on additional knowledge and new inspirations that can enrich teaching and creative work in general in a larger group of children.

The 11th seminar will be led by dance therapist Klára Čížková, who will present the possibilities of using elements of dance therapy in creative work with children. During the seminar, participants can learn and try out the basic possibilities of anchoring and working with the body and creative movement, as they are used in dance movement therapy, with overlap with dance instruction.

What you will learn at the seminar: 
 - Ways of anchoring the body and creating safety offered by work with the body and movement
 - Basic principles of dance and movement therapy
 - How to use these principles of work in self-care, movement preferences and resources in the body
 - Applying dance and movement therapy in working with crisis and trauma
 - We will be happy to introduce the Dance for Schools program in the form of a demonstration lesson

Applications: https://bit.ly/Tanec_školám_přihlášení
Price: CZK 800 / students: CZK 600
Contact: martina.filinova@tanecpraha.eu

Klára Čížková is a dance therapist and psychologist who works at the Roseta Comprehensive Care Centre, where she deals with clients with psychosomatic difficulties and leads group therapy programs. She uses dynamic deep-oriented psychotherapy in connection with dance movement therapy, works with dreams and movement imagination anchored in the body. In addition, she focuses on the connection between dance movement therapy and ecotherapy in nature. She is the director of the Moving Self Institute platform, where she teaches dance movement therapy in a training program.

Tanec Praha z.ú. invites you to an educational and creative seminar designed for dance and music teachers working with children, teachers of art schools and elementary schools and students of relevant fields interested in working with children.
The seminar is part of the Dance for Schools project, which has been brining creative movement lessons to schoolchildren since 2006, and which schools can include, for example, in the supplementary subject Dance and Movement Education (DME). The seminars do not ensure the qualification of DME instructors, but focus primarily on additional knowledge and new inspirations that can enrich teaching and creative work in general among a larger group of children.
This time you can look forward to inspiring personalities Kateřina Šobáňová from the Continuo Theatre, Lenka Pospíšilová from the Czech Orff Society and dancer, choreographer and teacher Mirka Eliášová. We will deal with the topic of touch in space and time and the use of body percussion or the game of boomwhackers in the physical education of children. Mirka Eliášová and I will focus on the specifics of working with a group of boys. We will be happy to introduce the Dance for Schools program in the form of a demonstration lesson or discussion.
The price of the seminar for both days is CZK 1,500 (students CZK 1,000).
Applications: https://bit.ly/SeminarTanecSkola2021
Info: martina.filinova@tanecpraha.eu
The capacity of the workshop is limited, registration is possible until 20 November.
To participate in the seminar, it is necessary to meet the TRV condition (test – recovered –
vaccination).

Program:
Saturday, 27.11

Kateřina Šobáňová – theatre artist, actress, director, teacher, member of the Continuo Theatre and program director of the Švestkový dvůr cultural centre
Touch in space and time
Touch is the primary source of knowledge of the surrounding world and interpersonal communication. It is the bearer of humaneness and humanity, or, conversely, brutality and fear. And it is precisely the questions that stand between these extreme poles and form the basic archetypes of human existence that will be the topic of the theatre movement workshop, which will be led by Kateřina Šobáňová, a lecturer and actress at the international theatre ensemble Divadlo Continuo. During the workshop, participants will look for stories that take place in each of us through physical contact and material. The main focus will be on the perception of movement that comes from the centre of the body, its axes and impulses that respond to the partner's pressure or tension. Working with paper will then be an inspiration for the body as one of the possibilities for grasping the principles of movement in theatre and teaching activities.

Sunday, 28.11
Lenka Pospíšilová – chairwoman of the Czech Orff Society, elementary school teacher, where she introduced classes with extended music education, lecturer of educational seminars for teachers not only in the Czech Republic but also in Europe and worldwide, http://www.orff.cz/
Body percussion and boomwhackers in the movement education of children
Body percussion is one of the oldest musical arts in the world, in which one's own body is used to create sounds. Body percussion combines music and dance into one. Playing the body develops a sense of rhythm, perception, coordination, cooperation and communication.
Let's play with boowhackers! You will get acquainted with the various possibilities of using these coloured tubes in the music-movement education of children. We will try to play some melodies, but above all we will discover the possibilities of improvisation, harmonic accompaniment to songs and the realization of their notation. Nor will we forget active listening, during which boomwhackers can also become part of a symphony orchestra.

Mirka Eliášová – dancer, choreographer and teacher at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU), will focus on the specifics of working with a group of boys, especially on movement games, developing cooperation, using objects and tools to develop creative movement and musicality.

Instructors:

Mgr. Kateřina Šobáňová
theatre artist, actress, director, teacher. She graduated from the Faculty of Education at Masaryk University in Brno (primary school teaching with a focus on literature and drama teaching). She then graduated from the Faculty of Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Department of Educational Drama). After graduating, she worked as a primary school teacher and led a seminar at the Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague. Since 2008 she has been a member of the international theatre group Divadlo Continuo (Švestkový Dvůr, Malovice), where she participated in the creation of about 20 performances. In addition to acting and directing, she uses her many years of experience gained in working with the body, movement, material, puppet, voice, sound, live music, visual styling and their mutual overlaps in teaching activities. As a lecturer, she has been leading workshops for children, students and adults in the Czech Republic and abroad for many years. Since 2020, she has also been the program director of the Švestkový Dvůr artistic, pedagogical and cultural centre.

PaeDr. Lenka Pospíšilová 
Chairwoman of the Czech Orff Society. She graduated from the Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague, and completed an internship with Pavel Jurkovič, with whom she later taught at the same school. He introduced her to the Orff principles of music education teaching. She was a tutor in movement education at the State Conservatory in Prague, and participated in a summer seminar at the Orff Institute in Salzburg. Today she teaches at an elementary school in Prague, where she has introduced classes with extended music education, founded a children's orchestra and a parent choir. Since 1991, she has been leading educational seminars for teachers throughout the Czech Republic, Europe, America and Asia. She is a permanent lecturer at international seminars organized by the Austrian Carl Orff Foundation. http://www.orff.cz/

Mgr. Bohumíra Eliášová, PhD. 
Dancer, teacher, choreographer. A graduate in the field of choreography at the Dance Department of the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU), where she also defended her dissertation and currently works as a teacher. She has created more than 20 original choreographies, collaborated on opera performances and participated in the creation of four dance films. Since 2008 she has been collaborating with the Berg Orchestra on site-specific performances to live music by contemporary composers. Her works are presented at festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad and she has won many awards.

She is also engaged in creative activities for children as an elementary school art teacher and a movement workshops instructor. She is the author of the children's interactive performances The World of Paper, Momo and Škatulení, which was co-produced by the PONEC Theatre.

At the begining will Jiřina Jiřičková from Czech Orff Society  introduce the creative work with playing pipes boomwhackers. We will focus on inclusion - possibilities of working with integrated children in the framework of movement lessons, who can consult with the special teacher Klára Janů. Singer and author Ridina Ahmed will lead a workshop on voice work on Sunday.

Price for both days is 1300 CZK (students 900 CZK)

Please apply on email: martina.filinova@tanecpraha.eu

21 – 22 September 2019 Body Mind Centering and Contact Improvisation with Object + -

An educational and creative workshop designed for dance teachers working with children, art school teachers and elementary school teachers. The sixth in a series of workshops within the Dance for Schools project, which for the 13th year brings creative physical education to children at school. The seminars do not train Dance and Movement Education instructors but are aimed at supplementing knowledge and new inspirations that can enrich this teaching. You can look forward to inspiration from the Body Mind Centering technique (Anna Sedláčková) and contact improvisation for working with groups of children (Mirka Eliášová).

Anna Sedláčková's workshop will focus on individual themes in the field of experiential anatomy and developmental movement with possibilities of use in creative movement with school-age children. The presented topics will be examined in improvised movement and movement assignments. The BMC approach is one that perceives a person (teacher and child) as a complex personality and offers the possibility of expressing the mind through the body and vice versa through movement and touch. It creates space for movement sharing.

Mirka Eliášová will follow up on her previous seminar in which she introduced the basics of contact improvisation in working with children. She will now focus on the possibilities of using objects as a mediator of contact in improvisation, but also as further stimulus for the creative work of children.

There will also be experience sharing, mutual consultation and a demonstration lesson of the Dance for Schools program.

Instructors: Anka Sedláčková and Mirka Eliášová

Where: PONEC – dance venue

Mirka Eliášová

Mirka Eliášová is a dancer, teacher and choreographer. She graduated from the choreography program at the Department of Dance of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where she also defended her dissertation and currently works as a teacher. She has created more than 20 original choreographies, collaborated on opera performances and participated in the creation of four dance films. Since 2008 she has been working with the Berg Orchestra on site-specific performances of music by contemporary composers. Her works have been presented at festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad and have won many awards.

She is also involved in creative activities for children as a primary school teacher and a movement workshop lecturer. She is the author of the children's interactive performances World of Paper and Momo, which are regularly presented at the PONEC Theatre.

Anna Sedláčková

Anna Sedláčková is a Slovak dancer, teacher and choreographer. Since 1996 she has been working as a dance teacher at the Department of Dance at the Academy of Performing Arts, where she founded the Dvorana Movement Studio. She focuses on a holistic approach to humanity in art and movement therapy. She has worked with prominent personalities in motion therapy in the United States and has been awarded the Body-Mind Centering ® Teacher, Body-Mind Centering Practitioner® and Infant Developmental Movement Educator and Somatic Movement Educator of the BMC method. She specializes in the application of BMC for the development of young children.   
At the same time, she is an active artist and has worked on many international dance projects in Slovakia, the USA, Germany and the Netherlands. She is a member of the artistic association Neskorý zber (Late Harvest), where she has participated as a dancer and choreographer in several productions. She is a co-founder of the Babyfit civic association, which specializes in education in the developmental movement of infants and young children.

Seminar price: CZK 1,200, students CZK 800

Registration and information: martina.filinova@tanecpraha.eu

The educational and creative seminar was designed for dance teachers working with children, art school teachers and elementary school teachers. The fifth in a series of seminars focused on inspiration from the field of bodypercussion (Lenka Pospíšilová, Czech Orff Society) and contact improvisation for working with groups of children (Mirka Eliášová). There was also sharing of experience, mutual consultation and a demonstration lesson of the Dance for Schools program.

27. - 29. 9. 2018 - Workshop Art of Intuitive Play The workshop was part of the project Dance to Schools, which has brought the creative and movement lessons with professional dancers to schools. The fourth seminar will be led by an inspirational personality, a Dutch lecturer of intuitive pedagogy who works in Germany, Thomas Pedroli. homas Pedroli is a musician, intuitive coach, lecturer on intuitive communication topics and intuitive pedagogy. He studied Waldorf's educational system and music. With teaching and teaching music he has spent 34 years at various schools in the Netherlands and Germany. In 1998, Thomas initiated seminars for intuitive pedagogy with Pär Ahlbom. Currently, he is a coach and lecturer in several European countries and Japan. https://www.thomas-pedroli.com Partners: Capital City of Prague, Ministry of Culture, Prague 3 and Goethe Institut