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.
