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To the interested in Dance in Netherlands: Classes and Teachers in the week of 8 September Ballet 9:30 class: Katarina Wester Katarina Wester, a native of Stockholm Sweden, received her training and graduated from the Royal Swedish Ballet School. She danced with the Royal Swedish Ballet and the Gothenburg Ballet for 16 years before moving to the US. In the United States Katarina has worked as a dancer, teacher, choreographer and ballet mistress for the past 21 years. She was until recntly the balletmistress for Charles Andersons Company C in California. In addition to this she studies Dance medicine and has developed a Conditioning program for dancers. Katarina is on the staff of the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. Contemporary 11:15 class: Tony Vezich Tony studied contemporary dance in the New Zealand School of Dance, and then went on to spend the next decade and a half working as a dancer and choreographer in Germany. While living in Germany, Tony formed the Temper-Temper Dance Company and was its artistic director and choreographer. Tony currently has more than 40 choreographies to his name. Tony devised and developed the “Release The Beast” dance technique, which he has taught throughout Europe and Scandinavia. He is currently on artistic leave from the position of head lecturer of contemporary dance technique in the Iceland Academy of the Arts, to pursue his independent artistic wishes, and to simultaneously and secretly reform Temper-Temper.? See a clip of his class combinations: https://youtube/watch?v=jCPpYF4w4io Kevin Cregan Michael OConnor Classes and Teachers in the week of 15 September Ballet 9:30 class: Kevin Cregan Kevin danced for many years as a soloist with the Dutch National Ballet. Since leaving he has worked as a freelance dancer, performer, choreographic assistant and teacher. He has worked with William Forsythe, in Ballet Frankfurt, with Kunst-Stoff, San Francisco, Unterwegs Theatre, Germany and as assistant choreographer to Meryl Tankerd in the creation of a London, West-End musical. He has taught for The Forsythe Company, Netherlands Dance Theatre and the D.A.N.C.E. program mentored by Forsythe, Prejlocaj, McGregor and Flamand. He teaches many of the contemporary dance companies in Holland and at the Lines Pre Professional Program, in the USA. He is a regular guest at the Rotterdam Dance Academy and the ArtEZ Academy in Arnhem. Kevin is a Practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method, which aims to integrate our awareness fully into our movement. This practice gives shape and informs his approach to teaching of Classical Ballet Contemporary 11:15 class: Michael OConnor Michael received his BFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah.Since 2007 he has been based in Vienna, Austria. He has worked with Deborah Hay, David Zambrano, Willi Dorner, among others in a variety of stage and site specific works.. The past three years traveling with ‘Bodies in Urban Spaces’ he has helped to plan the trail, create body sculptures, perform and lead this renowned work in over 30 cities. He has been guest artist faculty at Arizona State University twice and has taught at ImpulsTanz, SNDO, SEAD, TanzQuartier Wien and with festivals like DanceUmbrella and Tanz im August. His company A Waiting Dog, makes work that focuses on the body in consequence as the main source of expression. His interests pull from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology and phenomenology The class is based on the premise of using your inner core and your outer kinesphere to maintain balance and coordination so we can blur the lines between verticality and horizontality. The focus of the class has two parts: to provide the tools for strengthening the technical underpinnings of the dancer, and to dance. We start the class with different techniques that properly warm up the body and allow the dancer to functionally participate in a variety of styles. We find stability while on the floor and while standing. This class is a personal laboratory for each dancer to dive into their bodily selves, but it is also a communal atmosphere where the class moves as one, sweats as one, and encourages and learns from each other. The class utilizes floor work, release technique and head-tail connections to create delicate and strenuous phrases that challenge each dancer. For more info about Michael see: awaitingdog/site1011/main.html Audition at HJS An audition will be held at HJS on september 12th for a male dancer/actor/performer for a new, exciting work of Tunisian director/choreographer Meher Debbich Awachri, co-produced by Dancing on the Edge. For more info see: dancingontheedge.nl/news/audition-for-male-danceractorperformer/ person in charge Henny Jurriëns Stichting Henny Juriëns Stichting Bellamystraat 47-49 1053 BG Amsterdam The Netherlands [email protected] / hjs.nl HJS tel: +31 20 412 1510 fax: +31 20 612 3159 HJS Studio Studio time deal When you buy a 10- class pass (strippenkaart) in September or October you can use the studio for rehearsals for 4 hours for only 10 euros extra. Subject to availability. Please write : [email protected] for studio reservations.