FREE Dance Class - Contemporary Dance

We invite you to a contemporary dance class for free!

We have prepared a taster class of contemporary dance for you so that you can test whether contemporary dance is right for you. From September, we plan to open a 3-month contemporary dance course with the renowned Slovak choreographer Lucia Holinová Chovančíková. 

Contemporary dance is a dance style that combines and uses the techniques of modern dance, ballet, jazz, improvisation, but also martial arts (aikido, tai-chi,...) or somatic approaches (feldenkrais, Alexander technique, BMC).  Contemporary dance works with efficiency and energy recycling in dance, uses fall, hold, momentum and floor work, flow or inverted body positions. 

The tasting class, as well as the course, are intended for everyone who already has experience with dance, movement, yoga, gymnastics, tai-chi, aikido, etc. They are not suitable for people who are just starting out with movement and dancing or they are just starting to get to know their body in motion (we recommend our morning lessons focused on getting to know the body and movement or individual lessons focused on movement or dance development).

About the lecturer:

Lucia Holinová Chovančíková

A graduate of the HTF Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in the field of modern dance pedagogy. As a choreographer, director, dramaturg, she created performances in collaboration with other artists, which were presented in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Israel, New York and Cyprus. She began to devote herself to choreographic work already during her studies at VŠMU. She created full-length choreographies such as Škára (1999), FUGA (2012), WATCH (2015) and in the renewed premiere of WATCH NOW (2016), PI STORY (2015), DUNAJ (2016) - work in progress, NIVEAU STABLE (2019).

Dramaturgically, she collaborated with choreographer Šárka Ondrišová on the works 4 MEN - Ballet SND (2011), Voda na vode - Divadlo elledanse (2011) and FROST - Ballet Bratislava (2012).

In 2014, together with Anna Sedláčková, Daniel Raček and Monika Čertezni, she founded the group Late Harvest, which includes dancers of a mature age, in this collaboration they created the performance Intentional Waiting (2014) in a collective choreography.

In 1996, she participated in the founding of the Association of Contemporary Dance, a professional association in the field of contemporary dance and the international festival Bratislava in Motion. In the years 2001 - 2002, she was the co-author and manager of the Dance in the Arena project, which regularly featured the works of Slovak choreographers on the stage of the Arena Theater in Bratislava.

In the years 2010 - 2013, she was the executive director of the Elledanse Theater and Dance School.

Since 2014, she has been the editor-in-chief of TANEC magazine.

In his pedagogical work, he deals with the technique of contemporary dance, improvisation, contact improvisation, Alexander's technique and integrated dance.