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As last year, here are the most popular and interesting contemporary dance intensive of 2018. Some of them happening very soon or almost selling out. So, have a read and hurry up before it’s too late.
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For those who are concerned about keeping on training and developing during the summer break, I would suggest joining Kibbutz Summer Intensive. For the others who, like me, aren’t really into summer workshops and would rather go and refresh their minds in a beautiful corner of the world, I would still recommend it. Eclectic and international, Kibbutz Summer Intensive takes place in Kibbutz Ga’aton, Israel. It is a very unique place, full of history, which I think would be worth visiting for every dancer and dance student. More than training, the Kibbutz Summer Intensive offers a special journey about dance.
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At MIP® there is no other motive than to grow. There is no contract, scholarship or award to win at the end of the program. Instead, it’s the experience and what’s learned from that experience that’s earned. Nowadays more programs have emerged attempting to emulate something similar, which proves the program’s originality and innovativeness, but MIP® continues to keep its ear to the ground and listen to needs and changes of our ever-evolving community.
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If we want any sort of live performance art that values the work more than making money, that invites conversation without having to pay for it, there must be another way to allow us artists to live, to make, to collaborate, to attend performances, to fuel conversations, to create change. What we need is time. What we need is sustainability.
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What happiness is cannot be condensed in one sole answer, mainly because there isn’t a universal way to it but there are infinite. Renowned choreographer Didy Veldman presents ‘The Happiness Project’ as the cover letter to introduce her own new company Umanoove.
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Corrections, as dancers you need to deal a lot with them. Constructive criticism or a straight comment, helpful or confusing you, somehow you need to find your way of incorporating the given correction into your dancing. Understanding how to process the information in the right way may depend on the manner someone corrects you.
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This past March, dance communities from different latitudes came together in humble sorrow when two remarkable dancers passed away. Their death was surprisingly synchronized as if they were choreographed. Trisha Brown, who was born in 1936, died on March 17th in Washington, U.S.A., and Sonia Sanoja, born in 1932, died on March 26th in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Choreographed by Ryan Heffington, Hostage is a very informative performance that illustrates the science of HIV through dance. The dance
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Sara Mapelli – self identified as a Bee Queen and as a healer, dancer, artist, builder of structures and bee keeper
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Directed and animated by Dario Imbrogno, OSSA is a stop motion short film that shows the dance performance of a puppet, deconstructed in time and space.
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