Master Workshop: Flying Low by Milan Herich.

Dates and times:

03.05.2024 from 10:00 till 14:00 04.05.2024 from 18:00 till 22:00 05.05.2024 from 18:00 till 22:00 target audience: experienced dance students/dancers

Price: 180 euros (students and early birds 150 euros) Questions: damian@redsapata.com

Flying Low Master Workshop by internationally acclaimed dancer Milan Herich:

This  workshop focuses mainly on the dancer’s relationship with the floor.  The class utilizes simple movement patterns that involve breathing,  speed and the release of energy throughout the body in order to activate  the relationship between the center and the joints, moving in and out  of the ground more efficiently by maintaining a centered state. There is  a focus on the skeletal structure that will help improve the dancers  physical perception and alertness. The class includes partnering work  and movement phrases, which explore the primary laws of physics:  cohesion and expansion.

The  body is constantly spiraling, whether running or standing. These  spirals help the dancers into the floor and out of the floor. These  spirals already exist; this workshop focuses on finding them. To  activate these spirals, students locate their center and move all of  their joints from this center. Arms, legs, hands, toes, elbows, feet  become extensions of the center. The spirals propel the class all over  the room, both on the ground and upright. This is the flying low  technique.

Flaying low class links:  https://vimeo.com/403702797

About Milan Herich: Born  in Slovakia, Milan began his dance training in the Slovakian  traditional children's dance company Dumbier, and went on to graduate  from the Banska Bystrica Dance Conservatory. In 2002, he continued  his dance education at the renowned school P.A.R.T.S under the direction  of Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, in Brussels.

Milan  worked with different choreographers and companies including Ultima Vez  / Wim Vandekeybus in the creations Puur (2005) and Booting  Looting(2013). He also worked with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui to create the  show,Myth (2007). For more than 19 years, he has been in continuous  collaboration with David Zambrano as an assistant in classes and  workshops and as an interpreter in the works: 12 flies went out at noon,  3 flies went out at noon, Rabbit project, Soul Projectand Holes.

Milan  Herich is co-founder of Les SlovaKs Dance Collective, creating the  works Opening Night(2007) Journey Home(2009) The concert, live concert  of traditional music and singing(2010) and their last show, Fragments.  In 2013, he also collaborated with the choreographer Anton Lachky on the  creations Mind Gapand Side Effects.

Milan created together with David ZambranoA Solo for Mr. Folk, which was performed across Europe and Latin America. He  also has experience coaching and choreographing in works of renowned  circus company Rasposo, (Morsure(2014), La Dévorée(2017

In  end of 2018 he directed and choreographed a full evening performance  together with Petr Forman Turn over a new leaffor the circus school,  ESAC, in Brussels.

Picture by: Carla Leon

During his stay in Linz, Milan will also perform his solo show on friday evening, directed by David Zambrano - see more info here: https://www.sonnensteinloft.at/events/loftanz-2