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Contact Improvisation workshop with Karl Frost on 24 Oct 2020

Two Body System We explore moving together as an interdependent system, providing and accepting support and opportunities for movement and flight in a constantly changing puzzle. We explore ease in motion and the pleasure of compression and off-balance. This Contact Improv workshop will be taught by Karl Frost live on ZOOM while the participants [...]

Dance Science Net: The Axis Syllabus 2021 – NEW DATES ? with CVL

The Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg and Dance Science Net are happy to announce the next professional development training in Kinésiologie posturale: The Axis Syllabus (in EN, FR, DE) Dynamic Geometry - Classical Esthetics updated using The Axis Syllabus The Axis Syllabus (AS) is an open-source resource toolbox, a constantly evolving reference system, [...]

Lock-down outdoor version of Two to one in Apulia, Italy

An outdoor version of "two to one" performed by Emanuela Iacopini and Frey Faust on music by Rajivan Ayyappan at the UprisingUp festival/Axis Syllabus Italia in the beautiful small city of Cisternino in Apulia on the 26th Aug 2020 Two to One Duet extracted from “UNDO”, a contemporary tribute to the moving human [...]

All Yoga classes

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is a form of Hatha Yoga with a set sequence that integrates breath, movement, and gaze within the asanas (poses). Through our focus on breath, asana, pranayama, and meditation, we learn to create space so that we can learn to move with more ease, grace, and stability, experiencing the effects of [...]

Contact Improvisation with Gianfranco Celestino

Contact Improvisation is a form of dance based on spontaneous movement and physical contact. The exploration of a freely improvised movement nourished by the contact between two or more dancers is central to this proposition. The practice-created environment provides a safe space to engage in physical dialogues, while playing with elements such as gravity, [...]

Court Dancing

Photo credit: 37th Festival of Migrations, Cultures and Citizenship, 28 February-1 March 2020 © Fotini Kaparelou  CLAE The Court Dancing class is organised by Court Dancing Luxembourg/Zsofia Csaba. "Pavane, polonaise or the Viennese waltz as it was danced in the 19th century?  In this class, you will learn some of the most fascinating [...]

Dancing from Within – Body-Mind Centering® – ONLINE

Dancing from Within - Cours de Body-Mind Centering® “...To the song that rises from this moment in which I am contained... Available to constant flow and change, I can balance at the edge of the unknown...” Eva Karczag Contenu Thématique des 5 sessions: Rencontrer la résistance : céder, pousser, atteindre et tirer Les [...]

In-house invited performances 2020

Robert Hall Robert Hall is an educator, visual artist and musician. Most recently, he has been performing percussion-based improvisations at Vedanza Studios, where he has enjoyed collaborating with dancers Gianfranco Celestino and his contact improvisation groups, Florence Augendre, Marco di Nardo and Rhiannon Fata Morgan. He has collaborated as a [...]

ContactTango workshop with Gabi Koch on 7-8 Dec 2019

ContacTango A blend of Contact Improvisation and Tango Argentino. ContacTango conveys the sensitive coexistence of the tango, the feeling of being in the movement of the partner. It involves moving together with the music, immersing yourself in the music, moving through the music. At the same time, the fixed forms of tango, the 'guiding' [...]

Rajivan Ayyappan opens the Luxembourg Art Week on 8 Nov 2019

JOSEPH ART AGENCY proudly announces the sound installation by all round artist Rajivan Ayyappan at the opening of Luxembourg Art Week on November 8th at 6.45pm.   The work commissioned by Luxembourg Art week takes the listener to be lost in or ponder over the idea - title : a name for a talk, a name for a [...]

Contact Improvisation workshop with Karl Frost on 8-10 Nov 2019

In the classic dance of contact improvisation, we explore the unique possibilities of two mechanically interdependent bodies moving together through space. There is the roller coaster ride of tumbling and flying together with a mix of intention and openness to the unknown. There is the pleasure of feeling the body in motion, feeling support, [...]

Danse Africaine Contemporaine avec Modestine Ekete – 13 oct 2019

Inspiration des danses Patrimoniales L’objectif de ce stage proposé par Modestine Ekete est d’offrir à chaque participant l’occasion de découvrir la richesse chorégraphique de la danse africaine, qu’elle enseigne au Luxembourg depuis quelques années. Poursuivant l’idée que le corps est un formidable instrument de communication, elle invite les participants à stimuler et réveiller des sensations [...]