- FULL NAME: Gyula Berger, Roos van Berkel and Heléna Hrotko

- EMAIL ADRESS: info@lmanalysis.nl

- PHONE NUMBER: +31 6 29208890

- KEY TEACHERS:

Gyula Berger / Budapest

Roos van Berkel / Amsterdam

Heléna Hrotko / Budapest

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- TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY: prep for the party night

- DETAILED CONTENT DESCRIPTION (300 words or more):

‘Do you sense it too?’

 ‘What?’

 ‘You know, that bone at the end of your spine that’s slightly curved inwards....?’

 ‘Yeah, what it about?’

 ‘Well, mine seems to be….I don’t know….’

 ‘Come on! What about it?’

 ‘It seems to be wriggling around, and it gives me a nice, funky feeling’

 ‘Do you mean you have a happy coccyx?’

 ‘I guess! Haha, yes!

‘Well then there’s only one thing to do: dance it around!!!’

‘Happy Coccyx’

 Gyula Berger (HU), Roos van Berkel (NL) and Heléna Hrotko (HU)

propose a ‘happy coccyx’- gathering

at the start of the party night at the symposium in Vienna.

Join us as we explore the lemniscate-shapethat our coccyges naturally describe in space, and let this shape inspire your coccyx to keep moving as we party through the night!

- SUMMARY OF CONTENT DESCRIPTION:

Gyula Berger (HU), Roos van Berkel (NL) and Heléna Hrotko (HU)

propose a ‘happy coccyx’- gathering

at the start of the party night at the symposium in Vienna.

Join us as we explore the lemniscate-shapethat our coccyges naturally describe in space, and let this shape inspire your coccyx to keep moving as we party through the night!

- SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Gyula Berger: Following an about 10 years of training in ballet, folk dance, jazz and modern dance techniques I entered the Hungarian dance scene in 1984 when I founded my first group, one of the very first modern dance companies. After almost 10 years of working my thirst for knowledge took me to the Netherlands, to the European Dance Development Center, Arnhem where I had studied post-modern dance for 4 years. Returning to Hungary in 1997 I continued teaching workshops and choreographing and performing my own work. Currently I am working with my company, ZERO BALLET and I am teaching contemporary dance regularly at Trafo House for Contemporary Art. I am a member of L1 Association.

Roos van Berkel, CMA:  Educated at Laban London and LIMS New York, I currently teach, perform and create in The Netherlands. Since 2008 I teach Movement Analysis at the Theaterschool Amsterdam (faculty MTD) and at Eindhoven University of Technology (faculty Industrial Design). My latest own works are technology-based performances with audio-visual installation SOVI and a short dance film with humanoid TUlip. Besides creating own work and performing project-based, I have performed with visual theatre company Close-Act for the past 5 years.

Heléna Hrotkó: Holistic Dance Teacher (Institute for Holistic Dance and Movement Pedagogy) and contemporary dancer (Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy). I am giving regular improvisation classes and workshops in Budapest and also abroad (Italy, Austria) since 2010 for children and adults too. Since May 2012 I also teaching AlohaSi, an Italian relaxation method with a tool called Aloha. I am working as a dancer with “Living Picture Theatre”. Both teaching and performing are part of my own movement research in somatics, and body consciousness. I’m organizing regularly workshops in Budapest for foreign teachers working in somatics, authentic movement, butoh dance in order to enrich the network of contemporary dance.  

- AIMED AT WHO: all people looking for happy coccyges to bring to the dance floor. Min: 10, Max: 100

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-  TIME REQUEST: 1 hour                                                                                                                                                                     

- TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS (audio, beamer etc): none                                                                                                                                                                                   

- SPACE NECESSITY (studio size etc): preferably a large studio or outside (in that case it would be nice to have sound)