POLINA KREMASTA
A workshop for children: The world and us

1st Week – 1,5 hours/day
11:00 - 12:30 (D. Vikelas Sport Centre)

We will work together for five days for an hour and a half each day and we will study the space between us, the time around us and the movement’s magical journey.
We will go back to basics and rediscover our dance through games, imagination and personal ways of moving. We will explore the space around us and fill it with our sounds and bodies. How many butterflies can fit in the palm of my hand? How many wings can grow on my back?
Why is it that when I reach out to my friend I feel a tingling in my stomach?
We will build relationships and partnerships through cooperation as well as our own uniqueness and personality.
At the end of the workshop we will place our materials on an improvised canvas and present them to the Syros’s community.
Necessary props: comfortable shoes and clothes and a bottle of water

The workshop is addressed to children 10-11 years old and it is based on the educational project “Skytali” (Relay).

Contact:
tl. 6976080120
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Polina Kremasta was born in Thessaloniki. She graduated with honors from the professional dance school of “Rallou Manou”. She is also a graduate of Medicine (University of Ioannina). She is currently a dancer and choreographer for the Creo dance company (www.creodancecompany.wordpress.com), with several participations in local and international dance festivals (Insoliti International Dance Festival, Turin, Italy / Festival “La Becquée” Brest, France / Sarajevo International Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina / Dance Festival of the Greek Association of choreographers, Athens / Kalamata’s International Dance Festival / Aeschylia Festival, ect). Creo dance company was given grants by the state in the years 2009-2010 and has been awarded with the first prize Silver Snowflake at the Sarajevo Winter Festival for the performance GODOT in 2012.
She is an associated artist of the Duncan Dance Research Center in Athens since 2011. She was also chosen to represent Greece as a choreographer at the European dance project “homme@home (Culture Program 2007-2013).
The last four years she is coordinating, in collaboration with the Duncan Center, Skytali (Relay) an educational program for dancers and public schools, instilling the love for movement into the community. The last three years she is working on two research projects, one about the connection of contemporary and traditional dance and another based on the production and the manipulation of sound with the dancer and musician Giorgos Amentas.
At the theater she has worked with the independent director Orestis Tatsis and with the “Techni’s Theater” (Art’s theater).
She has given classes and workshops on contemporary technique and improvisation in many dance studios in Athens, Thessaloniki, Ioannina, at the Kalamata’s International Dance Festival, at the International Dance Festival «La Becquée» in France. She is teaching at the professional dance school “Rallou Manou” and she is a member of the board of the Association of Greek choreographers.

Two words about Skytali (relay):

Skytali is an educational program based on movement and dance, open to dancers, educators, choreographers and primary school students. It is based on a continuous procedure of sharing information and tools and learning through acting. Its core practice consists in passing the relay and educating the other to take over, inspiring and reinforcing community and personal skills such as initiative taking, cooperating, connecting. The classes are movement experience lessons and not a typical dance technique course. They are based on two fundamental movement actions, running after and falling; two symbolically charged actions, really familiar to children, linked with the joy of playing but also with social behavior. Skytali is a project, a community, a live structure, a network, a new space, a home a boat, a door, a movement, a way of life.

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