Poetic body with Milan Tomášik

Monday, September 4 – Saturday, September 9, 2023
10:00 – 17:00

We are announcing a third intensive workshop this year. This time with an exceptional choreographer, performer, teacher and artistic director in the field of dance and performing arts Milan Tomášik (SK/SLO).

Are you interested in experiencing your body fully present, alive and engaged? Do you wish to upgrade you physical possibilities, get inspired by contemporary dance, improvisation and composition? Are you looking for a safe and friendly environment where differences are respected and individuality is nourished? If you do, join us on a dancing journey in September.

Where attention goes energy flows. Poetic Body workshop represents an ongoing, immersive practice built on experience of Milan’s previous teaching methods Happy Feet and Playful Presence. It incorporates the concept of the body as an instrument or medium capable of expressing and embodying diverse movement qualities, rhythm, tension, emotions, and immateriality. Poetic Body is about the ability to execute any desired action fully, passionately and with ease. It brings action by waking up the body & mind through different physical games, by getting the body attuned to the moment, the space, connecting to ourselves and the environment.

I love to create a friendly atmosphere where we respect the differences and nourish the individuality. In such atmosphere, the learning potential is enormous and even the most sophisticated movement seems easy. – Milan Tomášik

The workshop offers a holistic approach to dancing, in which the practice of spontaneous and set movement is intertwined, technique meets with passion and wellbeing is priority. The emphasis is on rhythm and musicality, but the method also pays attention on articulation of the different body parts, precise execution of movement, foot work, jumps, and spins. Milan will guide you through the exploration of contrasting movement qualities such as range of body tension and together we will investigate the connection between emotion and motion.

The workshops will take their place in Duše Počkaj Hall and Linhart Hall of Cankar Theatre and will finish with a public showing of the process. The participants will open their creative coexistence to the audience on the last day of the workshop, on Saturday, September 9.

PEDAGOGUE
Milan Tomášik (SK/SLO) is a choreographer, performer, teacher and artistic director working internationally in the field of dance and performing arts. His training includes J. L. Bella Conservatory Banská Bystrica (SK), the Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava (SK), Moving Academy for Performing Arts (NL), and P.A.R.T.S. (BE), directed by Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker. Currently, he is attending the Master program Contemporary Choreographic Practices at Alma Mater Europaea (SLO).

Milan has performed professionally for twenty years, collaborating with artists across Europe such as Eva Weissmann, Katarina Zagorski, Iztok Kovač, Mala Kline, Maja Delak, Magdalena Reiter, Anja Zag Golob, Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik, Charlie Brittain, Sláva Daubnerová. He is co-founder of the Les SlovaKs dance collective with whom he created and performed three works that acquired international fame. The first piece is Opening Night (2007), then Journey Home (2009) and Fragments (2012).

His choreographic work is performed internationally, has delivered commissions for Scenario Pubblico (Intrecciato, IT), Divadlo Štúdio tanca (Veselosti minulosti, Besi, SK) and tri4 association (Pokrm, SK). In 2022, Milan collaborated with a director Sláva Daubnerová on adaptation of George Sand’s novel Gabriel at Badishes Staatstheater in Karlsruhe (DE). In 2014 he founded his own dance company Milan Tomášik & Co and created three dance performances Hunting Season (2014), Silver Blue (2015) and Fight Bright (2018), performed on various European festivals. The Hunting Season performance has been selected and supported by Dancenet Sweden to tour nationally, the piece has also received two awards for the lighting design (KioSk festival, SK and Gibanica festival, SLO) and Ksenija Hribar Award for the best dancer (Tina Valentan, Gibanica festival, SLO). The dance concert Indefinite Frequency with the Slovenian Percussion Project was selected and supported by the Pan Adria network in 2021.

Milan is regularly invited as a guest teacher around the world to deliver his signature workshops Happy Feet and Playful Presence, in 2023 fused in Poetic Body. His teaching includes Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (AT), Le Centre national de dance contemporaine Angers (F), The Danish National School of Performing Arts Copenhagen (DK), Stockholm University of the Arts (SE), Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Arts/University of Zagreb (CRO), Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (DE), Belgrade Dance Institute (RS), Alma Mater Europaea (SLO), Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LT), Academy of Theatre and Dance/Amsterdam University of the Arts (NL), School of Fine and Performing Arts Tilburg (NL), London Contemporary Dance School (UK), The Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava (SK), B12 Berlin (DE), Deltebre dansa (ES), La Central del Circ Barcelona (ES), El Graner Barcelona (ES), La Raffinerie Brussels (BE), Danse Centrum Jette Brussels (BE), P.A.R.T.S. summer school Brussels (BE), Out of the Toolbox Ghent (BE), Kaserne Basel (CH), Tanzwerkstatt Europa München (DE), Akropoditi dance festival Syros (GR), Dance Days Chania Crete (GR), Dance Theatre Ljubljana (SLO), Vibra Ljubljana (SLO), EN-KNAP (SLO), Divadlo Štúdio tanca (SK), Akram Khan Company (UK), Ultima Vez Brussels (BE), Theatre Bielefeld (DE), Yucatan dansa Merida (Mexico), Rosario, Tucuman (Argentina), Kazan, Yekaterinburg (Russia), The New Beijing (China), Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) and CoDa21 San Juan (Puerto Rico), among others.


LOCATION
Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana → Location on maps

PRICES
“Early bird” discount (applications until July 30, 2023 – extended until August 6, 2023!): 190€
“Day bird” discount (applications until August 14, 2023): 215€
“Late bird” (applications after August 14, 2023): 240€


APPLICATION
Do you wish to apply for Conscious release week intensive? If yes, we kindly invite you to start your registration HERE → APPLICATION FORM

You can find the information and payment data in registration form. After receiving your CV we will confirm your application and give you instructions to complete your transaction via email.

Workshop is only meant for professional and semiprofessional dancers, with experience in improvisation.
The amount of applicants is limited to 25 people.


CONTACT
[email protected]
+386 30 343 049