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summer | main event
running from the 1st to the 28th of july 2024
© marios theologis
b12 summer main event
— // —location: eden***** studios
Christina Mertzani
super / workshop
this workshop intends to help you explore, develop and bring super skills to the surface, both as an individual and as a team. what are my personal super skills? how do i discover them? how do i bring them to the surface? how do i communicate with other super dancers who have super skills? super uses contemporary dance techniques fused with my own personal style, including acrobatics, hip hop, breaking, yoga, pilates, and martial arts. we will pay special attention to the warm-up, bringing awareness to our bodies through breathing techniques, strengthening exercises, as well as stretching, to prepare ourselves not only to be super, but to reach super limits and beyond! we will work on multiple physical planes which will ready our body and sharpen our minds to quickly change direction and/or levels at any time, anywhere. we will explore all of your super potential in terms of stamina, flexibility, alertness, and awareness, so that a good result may be produced, both individually and through the co-existence of our group. we all have the chance to broaden our perspectives and movement styles by exploring different tastes, flares, and new approaches. with respect and intelligent analysis, we will shake apart our mental and physical limitations! we will dig deep to find the confidence to believe in ourselves, and i will be with you - close to you, with every move. let us transform our existing selves and get superfresh! this workshop is both technical and theoretical.
please be aware of our early bird special offer for this workshop! you can apply for this offer up until the 24th of march 2024. after the 24th the regular workshop fee applies. applications are accepted up until one day before the workshops starts.
biography
christina mertzani, choreographer, dancer and teacher, graduated from athens state school of dance in 2004 and holds a degree in homeopathy from the akadimia of ancient greek and traditional chinese medicine. in the last 20 years, she has been teaching extensively in europe canada and asia, leading master classes, workshops, and intensives for dancers in companies, theatres, universities, and studios for professional dancers. as a performer, christina has worked with johannes wieland (germany), stella zannou (greece), peter vosperton (new zealand), kostandin mixos (greece), helder seabra (belgium), kat valastur (germany), apostolia papadamaki (greece), and performed choreographies by wim vandekeybus, mark morris and martha graham, among others. christina has worked internationally as a choreographer, performer and teacher. she has choreographed in europe and asia for different companies, theaters, universities and festivals. she has presented metamorfosis, inside, mix-up, cube, alternative bodies, stheno, run away, minotaur, beyond illusion, and video dance works entanglement, reborn temptation, and 60 pulses in more than 30 countries around the world. she was a faculty member of anton bruckner university in linz, austria, for two years. from 2010- 2019, christina mertzani co-directed, along with evangelos poulinas, one small step international contemporary dance festival in corfu, greece.
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