FAIDO courses AND TRAININGS
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Weintal teaches at various dance institutions, academies, and centers both in the Netherlands and internationally, offering classes and intensive courses. These include contemporary dance, techniques, company repertoire and methodologies, performability, instant composition, partnering, working with students towards a performance, and coaching dancers’ works for professional theatre stages and public spaces.
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FAIDO courses
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For: professional dancers, performers and people who are eager to challenge themselves in movement, dance and performative skills.
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Set up material from the company’s productions introduces speed, agility, focus and precision in order to achieve visceral expressive choreographies. The movement vocabulary explores the cohesion and expansion, off-balance verticality, focusing on floor work, skeletal structure, joint articulation, gravity and momentum, with partnering work, to enhance expression, stimulate extremities and expand the dancers’ vocabulary, along with company’s repertoire..
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The course explores choreographic material through trance techniques that improve dancers' physical and emotional states. Formal techniques such as Release, acrobatics, martial arts, ballet and Forsythe-Lines-Point improvisation are deconstructed and merged into new expressions, using improvisational methods.
Through set-up material and playful games, participants develop choreographic work for presentation, with a focus on improving performative skills, awareness and perception.
​The work
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We use various movement methods, mixing abstraction with naturalism, the fantastic with the grotesque. Methods of improvisation, automatic writing and group dynamics are introduced to build the reality of performance.
The work is explored in solo, partner and group work.
The course is an introduction to the company's working methods for new dance productions.
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The comapny has been teaching in various dance centres around the world namely Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunste, Fontys School of the Arts - dance teaching, HJS, Dock 11 Berlin, Korean National University of Arts - the dance academy, Seoul, Busan Intenational dance festival, Busan, South Korea, Musho Festival Durban, South Africa, Ditrict 6 Theater Cape Town, Acco theater centre Acco, Israel, The school of visual theater Jerusalem, Phnom Penh art centre, Cambodia.
Weintal served as a judge in international contemporary dance competitions from 2011 to 2013.
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Practical information
The course can be held in any city/country in Europe upon invitation** .
1. Extended Workshop Series: 8 Weeks X 3 Hours per Session.
2. Intensive course of minimum 6 days X 7 hours
(including the day of the performance presentation for the public).
Minimum number of participants: 10
** For promoters interested in inviting the course to their organisation / city, i.e.
responsible for a group of participants, please do not hesitate to contact me at faidodancecompany@gmail.com to make a plan together.
