Tindaro Silvano, 23-27 May
Tindaro Silvano was born in 1956 and began his training at the age of 18 with Prof. Carlos Leite at his hometown Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. His advanced training included classes with important ballet masters, such as Hugo Delavalle and Bettina Bellomo. Silvano has been working as choreographer and ballet master in South-America and Europe. He served as artistic director and choreographer in residence of Companhia de Dança de Minas Gerais from 1988 to 1996. During that period he created 15 new works and was awarded with several important prizes in many states of Brazil.

Masterclass: pure classical ballet class with a blend of different body training methods

The public and the critics all over the world have received his numerous dance works with great acclaim. His pas de deux called “Capriccio” as well as ballets called “Impromptu” (Cisne Negro), “Paradox” (Bahia Ballet) and “Midnight Tango” (Theater Nordhausen, 2008) have attracted significant international interest.
During the years 2004-2005 he lived in Paris as invited artist at “Cité Internationale des Arts”. His research interests include various topics in the field of different body training methods. He has devoted himself to Classical and Contemporary dance, Pilates, Alexander Technique, and different kinds of sports. On this basis he is able to teach pure classical ballet class or “Mixed techniques” which is his own blend of all the above mentioned techniques. 


Sara Wookey, 30, 31 May and 02, 03 June
Sara Wookey is a choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California. From 1996-2006 she lived and worked in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and taught at the Amsterdam School for the Arts. Since relocating to the United States in 2006, her work has been presented nationally at Links Hall in Chicago, the Hammer Museum and REDCAT in Los Angeles. Her most recent project is Transmitting Trio A, a research into the verbal language used when teaching a dance from one body to another. Sara holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California in Los Angeles and teaches in the dance department of the California
State University, Long Beach.

Masterclass: intensive improvisational workshop

How does movement translate into a written form? And can words motivate a dance? In order to answer these questions, we will begin each day with a rigorous movement exploration and, through improvisation, translate our dancing into a written or graphic form that will later be used as a score for dance making.
During this workshop dance writers and other authors will contribute to our moving, thinking and the development of our kinesthetic consciousness. This intensive improvisational workshop will help you to develop your compositional skills as well as support a practice for integrating text, image and
speaking into your dancing.

For more information visit: www.sarawookey.com 


Milan Herich, 06 - 10 June
Born in 1980, Milan started his first dance steps in the Slovak traditional children dance company Dumbier, where he stood 11 years. Graduated in 2000, his studies at the Conservatory J.L.Bella in Banska Bystrica made him collaborate with Zuzana Hajkova. After school, Milan continued his work in the professional company "Dance Studio", lead by Z.Hajkova. He has also been collaborating with choreographers from Slovakia and abroad. In september 2002, he left the University of Arts in Bratislava to enter the international school P.A.R.T.S., in Brussels for 2 more years. Milan joined Ultima Vez and Wim Vandekeybus for Puur, creation 2005. In 2007 he joins Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui to create "Myht". His teaching experience started after school and he collaborates regularly with Dans Centrum Jette (Belgium) and Terpsichore, centrum voor Dans en Beweging (Belgium). Since 2000, Milan assists David Zambrano's classes and workshops and he is permanently collaborating at his work: 12 flies went out at noon, 3 flies went out at noon, Rabbit project, Soul Project.
Milan Herich is co-founder of Les SlovaKs Dance Collective. They created their first piece "Opening Night" in 2006 and premiered it in October 2007.

Masterclass: alternate between arches and spirals of the body
The material of the class will mainly be moving through floor work and low squatting positions. The aim is to alternate between arches and spirals of the body in all directions possibly imagined. The class will start with exercises in which we will work on using the flexibility of the body to discover different movement possibilities, developing into dance phrases based on the exercises. The idea is to move through space by isolating the upper and lower body parts from your center so that a swinging action of the body is created. The suspension and momentum of the swing will help us to play around with rhythm as well as keep the movement round, fluid and spiraling. Although the arms will be part of the dance, we will try to avoid contact with the hands on the floor to help us move, except when necessary.

Robert Hayden, 14 - 17 June
Born in the U.S., Robert was a nationally competitive gymnast for 13 years. He began studies in theatre and dance at the University of New Mexico in 1991. Upon moving to Brussels in 2002 he was for 7 years a member of Ultima Vez, co-creating and touring in the creations Blush, Sonic Boom, PUUR and Spiegel and the dance films Blush and Here After. Since then, Robert has developed his own work bringing together almost 20 years of performance, choreographic and theoretical research into theatre, sound/music, voice and movement work. He regularly teaches workshops internationally and is based in Brussels.

Masterclass: reconnect to your primal instinct and gravity as a catalyst for movement
The class will begin with a basic warm-up of the body focusing on awakening core strength and stability. We will start with a series of physical exercises that integrate basic elements of aikido, yoga, capoeira, and kalaripayyatu to establish a strong and vital body-breath connection. These exercises are also designed to gradually unlock the flow of living impulses within the body.
We will then move on to exploring floor-work as a basis for springing into movement and action. Using spatial awareness and sensitivity, we will improvise with speed, lightness, heaviness while remaining soft and pliable, stillness and gravity-centered awareness. This work stems from a reconnection to our primal instinct, thus allowing one to enter a more animalistic state without the baggage of interpreting or ‘acting’ like an animal.
As we move upward to higher levels of center, we will work with gravity as a catalyst for movement, exploring the dynamic between ‘fall and recovery’ with a particular emphasis on the point just before the body chooses to recover it’s balance. This will allow us to explore various points of disequilibrium giving one the sense of falling off one’s center yet without losing it. Finally, combining levels of low, mid and high-range movement, we will integrate these elements into a final phrase.  This class is designed to function as an ongoing training for both actors and dancers.