Summer Intensive 19/7–2/8/2015
Torres Vedras, 30 minutes from Lisbon I 2 weeks of Contemporary Classes NON STOP!
                          Summer Intensive 2014 – Teachers



“Play-Fight” - Bruno Caverna
amalgamates elements from martial arts, such as Capoeira, Taiji and Russian Systema, with Contact-Improvisation and Contemporary Dance, wherein a play-fight arena becomes the thrilling drive to explore and challenge one another in all different fashions. “Positively intended” is the individual mental tuning required for the rise of a friendly collective ground, from which a visceral and sensuous experience can be safely cultivated and extrapolated. Each encounter carries the latent power to tilt either towards confrontation or collaboration or into a blend of the two. This oscillating course is naturally defined by the unique alchemical potentials from each ever-unfolding duet relationship, sculpted into the depths of vulnerability and honesty.
Born in Rio de Janeiro and based in Europe since 2000, Bruno Caverna has always been strikingly fascinated by human bodies in motion and its instinctual intelligence derived from our animal evolutionary legacy. In 1987 Bruno began practicing Capoeira, which led him to work in a circus as an acrobat in 1993. The year after Bruno "fell into" contemporary dance, a landmark in his professional development for realizing that dancing was the missing link. Over the past 20 years, Bruno has been moving through a thread of uncompromised dedication putting together his visions and principles from various dance modalities and martial arts, into a visceral corporal language of his own. His approach to body language is spiritual and aims a refined understanding of our ancestral animal powers and origins. Caverna's motivation has been nourished and sustained by the realization that by retrieving of our dormant primal condition we become able to access countless benefits on many levels that go beyond the mere physicality.

By authentically reconnecting to our animal evolutionary legacy we move towards heightened levels of sensitivity, perception, awareness and, consequently, an improvement of motor skills and finer expressions. The established frameworks and guidelines becomes our fertile terrain for the awakening of a dormant instinctual intelligence capable of operating our bodies effortlessly with easy and grace.

See more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxulHZunZlM

Maria Kolegova


Basic Training for dancer – Maria Kolegova

This class is an exploratory dive into the many possibilities of a body well prepared and how to make it fully available in an efficient and safe way. An inner look, enhancing strength and flexibility at same time, this class that melts together elements of yoga, floor movement and taekwondo, aims to develop a common conscience of the surrounding obstacles within the space, and a common rhythm in the group while moving extreme. This class becomes a trip that challenges your focus to keep always aware of different elements and multi-tasking.  

Maria was born in Russia and brought to Ballet first by her parents when she was but 5 years old.  She sticked to it and studied Ballet until 1999 in Yekaterinburg ballet ( director E.Sherbakova). However right after, she shifted to contemporary dance and finished the school of contemporary dance of Centre of Contemporary Art (director L.Shulman) Yekaterinburg in 2003. Thereupon she enriched her education with studies at the Theatrical Academy (department of acting and filming-teacher V.Kokorin) Yekaterinburg, where she graduated in 2006. Duirng her studies she choreographed her first own piece „natural sleection“ in 2005 in Yekaterinburg, . From 2007 until 2012 she worked as a dancer in the theatre of contemporary dance in Moscow. At the same time she teached in the theatre-studio of contemporary art in Moscow(director I.Afonina) and trained taekwondo until she reached the black belt in the school of taekwondo ''Halelluya"(WTF)Moscow in 2012. Since then she has moved to Belgium and is working as a dancer in Ultima Vez company(director Wim Vandekeybus) Brussels.