MedUkrep
Workshop schedule: 23.-26.09.2013, 10.00-17.00, with a lunch break, Studi Baobab, Parmova 25, 1000 Ljubljana.

Public presentation: 27. Sept. 2013 – 17.00 – MSUM/U3 – Free entrance

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CoFestival is the meeting of three contemporary dance festivals in one -Modul Dance produced by Kina Šiška, Pleskavica produced by Fičo baleta and Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia, and MedUkrep produced by PTL – Dance Theatre Ljubljana. This year“€™s edition CoFestival under the common moto The Art of Co-living runs in two parts: from 17th to 21st June and from 23th to 26th September 2013.

Within the programme MedUkrep by Dance Theatre Ljubljana, the second cycle of the platform ]open-closed[ will be held from 24rd to 27th September, when people will be invited to join the already existing group from the workshop of Matej Kejžar. The choreography workshop with the working title Vertigo will run as an open methodological process which will attempt to think choreography based on creating dance in different spaces. The mentor of the process will be Eduardo Torroja who collaborated with Wim Vandekeybus from the very beginning of the renowned dance company Ultima Vez, being a dancer and  assistant director in Wim Vandekeybus very first dance performance “€œWhat The Body Does Not Remember“€(1987).

About the workshop

Participants will explore and confront Vandekeybus’ energetic vocabulary through floorwork, partner- and contact work, and movement as a ‘theatrical act’ rather than as a ‘technique’.

About the mentor

Eduardo Torroja was born in Madrid, Spain, where he studied dance and theatre. In 1986 moved to Brussels to collaborate with Wim Vandekeybus as a choreography assistant, trainer and performer for the very first Ultima Vez productions “€œWhat The Body Does Not Remember“€(1987), “€œLes Porteuses de Mauvaises Nouvelles“€(1989), “€œThe Weight of a Hand“€(1990) and the film “€œRoseland“€(1991).

During the nineties, he worked with Rosas – Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in “€œErts“€ and “€œMozart -Concertaria“€™s: Un Moto di Gioia“€. And also with Needcompany – Jan Lauwers – Grace Ellen Barkey in “€œRood-Red-Rouge“€, “€œMorning Song“€, “€œThe Miraculous Mandarin“€, “€œCaligula“€ and “€œKing Lear“€.

He signed the choreography of “€œStarmania“€, a french-canadian rock opera directed by Lewis Furey (1993-2000).

He has undertaken the teaching of “€œHands“€ (P.A.R.T.S. – Brussels and IT Dansa – Barcelona), “€œFrisking“€ (State School of Athens and Ballet des Jeunes d“€™Europe) and a duo from “€œLes Porteuses de Mauvaises Nouvelles“€ (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris) and has given Ultima Vez repertoire workshops in Leuven, Volgograd, Brussels, Madrid, Amsterdam, Seville, Rotterdam, Lisbon, etc.

In 2000 he moved back to Madrid and since then he is acting in film, TV and theatre productions, assisting director for films and going back to Brussels for different projects: artistic assistant for Ultima Vez “€œBlush“€(2002) and HGH “€œSonic Boom“€(2003)…

Photo: Danny Willems