Education
WORSHOPS & CLASSES
We at Nya Rörelsen come from a variety of dance backgrounds, as well as professional experiences within the cultural area, and pride ourselves when it comes to the different facets in approaches and practices this brings to our pedagogy. Some of us teach regularly, but all of us teach and welcome invitations to hold classes, workshops or lectures.
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Rumiko Otsuka
I regularly teach dance lessons (classical ballet, modern and workshops) to both professionals and amateurs.
Modern technique: Class for professionals and amateurs
Cunningham and Limón techniques influence my modern/contemporary classes, also I utilise the release as a technique to find dynamics in the movement. I look to build up an awareness of the space and direction throughout the class, and aim to challenge participants finding musicality, dynamics, and individuality.
Workshop: Choreography and composition
The base of this workshop is the practice of improvisation and composition, and this content/focus changes depending on the choreographic work that I am currently making at that moment. I am interested in using elements of theatre and emotions and aim to find the unique dance vocabulary that is deeply connected to who each of us are.
Majula Drammeh & Khamlane Halsackda
Explorative improvisations – Body, Time and Space
A series of workshops conducted for non-dancers, artists from other artistic fields, professional dancers, or anyone simply invested or curious about moving.
By exploring somatic practice and improvisational methods and exercises for how the body can relate to time, space and other bodies, we break down and take a look at what affects the decisions we make concerning time and space, and in turn how this reflects on the perception of the space and its content for others.
Following this we expand further by working on methods that relate the body to material objects in time and space, with the aim of understanding how the body’s performative potential can be elevated in terms of decision making and the conscious engagement with an object.
Through each of our sessions with the students we formulate ways to aid individual students according to their artistic focus and needs to help them develop within this work and process.
This work has allowed our students to find autonomy in their body by building a personal awareness of how our bodies are affected by external expectations, and providing them the tools to emancipate themselves from these expectations.
Both Majula and Khamlane teach individually within dance and performance.
Nidia Martínez Barbieri
Contemporary dance
The participants are guided through a training that combines elements of Pilates, Barre, Flying Low, and modern Jazz, in order to prepare the body to move in all levels of the space. After that they learn original choreographic combinations created by myself, challenging memory and coordination. They explore different speeds and rhythms being stimulated by different styles of music, such as electronic cumbia and classical music. The goal of the technique classes is to awaken body sensitivity and to experience the pleasure of moving the body in space.
Other teaching
I teach workshops to professionals in the fields of dance, theatre and music. I lead pedagogic projects to amateurs who love to dance, offering the possibility of performing in a final showing. I also teach Pilates and collaborate in different pedagogic Argentine tango projects.
Photo: Patrik Palm. “Eros. Kvinnors projekt.” A dance community project directed to women. In collaboration with Konstkuppan. Stenkrossen, Lund. 2017
