Karina Elver was born in Denmark.
She began to dance cha cha cha at the age of 3, and at 9 years old she was accepted as a ballet student at The Royal Danish Ballet School.
In 1978 she was accepted as an apprentice at The Royal Danish Ballet and after 2 years she became a ballet dancer at The Royal Danish Ballet.
During her time at The Royal Danish Ballet, she had many solo parts in several famous ballets by August Bournonville, Balanchine, Alvin Ailey and many more.
In 2003, after a wonderful career of 32 years, she decided to leave The Royal Danish Ballet to work as a freelance ballet teacher/choreographer/repetiteur and Bournonville specialist.
Since 2011 Karina has been working in New York, and other States across the U.S, teaching and staging Bournonville ballets as well as in Europe.
Karina Elver will be teaching Classical Ballet.
Sonja Salkowitsch was born in Norway.
She is a performer within physical theatre and butoh. She lives in Norway, where she runs the company PLUSKVAMPERFEKTUM together with her brother Per.
Sonja's work is a mix of different genres, combining butoh with characterwork and interactive, space related settings.
Over the years Sonja trained butoh with Yumiko Yoshioka, Sayoko Onishi, Kitt Johnson and Tadashi Endo.
Besides her own works, she has performed with various international companies such as SIGNA, Read Company, InZhest, Cantabile2 and X-Act. Sonja is also a certified hatha yoga teacher.
Sonja Salkowitsch will be teaching Butoh.
Denni Dennis was born in Denmark.
Trained in mime and ballet in Russia.
He graduated from The Commedia School, Copenhagen Denmark in 2005.
Denni has extensive training in the Jacques Lecoq style, Russian character clown and the Pochinko method (Native American spiritual clown), which he has been studying with Sue Morrison in Canada.
He combines clown, mask, dance, acting and improvisation to create unique and dynamic characters. His clown work has been featured in theatre, circus, dance performance and art installations.
His work has taken him around Europe, Canada, Australia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Algeria and the US as a performer, workshop leader and director.
He is the founder of the GPS Movement System.
Since 2010 he has been working as tutor, performer and director with inclusive groups of disabled theatre and dance company's all over the world.
Denni Dennis will be teaching Biomechanics and GPS Movement System.
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Denni Dennis was born in Denmark and is based in London where he is the artistic director of Denni Dennis Company Clowns.
Founder of
Denni Dennis Summer Clown School www.summerclownschool.com in Copenhagen Denmark
The Winter Movement Academy www.wintermovementadademy.com at Tenerife Spain.
He graduated from The Commedia School, Copenhagen Denmark.
Trained in ballet and mime in St. Petersburg, Russia. Extensive training in the Jacques Lecoq style, Russian character clown and the Pochinko method (Native American spiritual clown, which he has been studying with Sue Morrison in Canada).
He combines clown, mask, dance, acting and improvisation to create unique and dynamic characters.
His clown work has been featured in theatre, circus, dance performance and art installations.
His work has taken him around Europe, USA, Australian, Canada and Russia, as a director, performer, teacher and workshop leader.
He work has been supported over the last 15 years by The Danish Arts Council, Arts Council of Wales, Wales Arts International and other privet foundations.
Examples of his work and his CV can be found at http://flowboard.com/s/lio
Founder of the GPS M S BIOMECHANICS SYSTEM.
GPS M S BIOMECANIC SYSTEM is an emotional body memory system for dancers, actors and mime artists.
This system is suitable for any performer:
- Who creates their own material, or who is part of a group devising process.
- Who creates movements or longer choreographic sequences based on text.
- Who creates stories based on movements from their own experience and memories.
GPS M S BIOMESCANICS SYSTEM is based on physical movements created from the performer's spine, which are sent through the body, by focusing on the body's closing and opening impulses, and are boosted with melodramatic feelings - as a physical mask - put on the face, the shoulders, the bottom, the knees and the feet.
By repeating the 60 minutes GPS M S BIOMECANICS SYSTEM sessions a minimum of 3 times, the sessions will create an emotional spine release, which will help the performer to reconnect and clean their own emotions through the session. This will help the performer to recognise their own emotions and create clean and organic movements.
The GPS M S BIOMECHANICS SYSTEM has 3 faces:
- A 60 minutes body cleaning and strengthening session with eye contact break down of 4th wall
- The personal/ ensemble unique 99 movements alphabet and
- The ensemble 100/100/100 devising tool from neutral mask to Russian classical ballet
Physical 60 minutes Body Cleaning & Strengthening Session.
In this 60 minutes movement session you will be working from standing up to laying down to standing up again.
Tapping, shaking and boosting your body with energy. A 60 minutes journey through the melodramatic feelings - explored and connected from your spine. This system will boost and clean your movements as a performer and connect your movements as an ensemble.
Your Personal Unique 99 Movements Alphabet.
From melodramatic feelings you will create 16 circles of movements, 9 personal movements and 6 connecting movements. These 99 movements will be your personal movements alphabet, created out of your own Movement DNA.
The Ensemble 100/100/100 Devising Tool.
If you work on a solo performance you will create your movements from the spine through your unique 99 movements alphabet and action movements. If you work as an ensemble - the 99 Movements Alphabet will connect you as an ensemble through the devising process of the ensemble's unique Movements DNA.
Through the 100/100/100 tool system it will be possible for the ensemble to create movements combined with text and voice. Movements based on a combination of plastic/ mechanic/ emotion.
Classes in LONDON NOVEMBER 11 - 22 - 2024 10am-1pm (monday-friday)
drup in class £15
full 2 week classes £100
more info and booking of your sessions info@vintermovementacademy.com
