Ballet drum is a new approach of classical dance through music.
Rhythm of live drum is accented redefining the structure of ballet and creating dialogue between rhythm and move through the exercises.
űThis method gives a new perspective to classical ballet technique leaving traditional piano accompaniment behind. It is none of the question to deny the benefits of ballet taught with piano.
It is just a question of rhythm and energy created by the instrument and moves allowing ballet practice irrespective of age and knowledge level.
These classes might be traditional in the sense that the work “à la barre” and “au milieu” at the same time contemporary teaching methods are incorporated (notions of energy, breath and space).
Ballet drum helps students to discover their rhythmical and corporal schemes. Enrich their feelings, sensitiveness and sensibility to bring them to a better understanding of movements.
The scope of these classes is plural and ambivalent. It is definitely a playful and educative course aiming to make people practice ballet with pleasure.
These classes are complementary to the traditional ballet classes accompanied by the piano. It is an additional method among all the existing ones.
Drums might develop a better understanding of music and movements as a whole. It is about learning ballet by stimulating the group to collective rhythmic movements, nevertheless these classes will allow the students also in an individualistic work to reach a dynamic feeling of ballet. Such classes will allow focusing on the power of running and jumping steps, to insist on the energy of the “tours”, to beat, to kick and to develop the “frappé”.
The movements accompanied by drums will be the driving force of a better released feeling of a freedom.
Bodies and drums will communicate in a structured and dynamic call and response. Keeping the grace, the elegance and the lightness of the ballet technique while giving richness, diversity and complexity of the off beats and syncope. These classes might be given all year round in partnership with Dance and music conservatories, Universities and colleges, School of arts, Dance Centers, Research dance societies, Dance and company theaters.
BALLET DRUM
Jean Gerald Dorseuil and the drummer
CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Kata Kánya
CHOREOGRAPHY ATELIER
Kata Kánya and Jean-Gerald Dorseuil
The Warm-up is focusing on conscious body control and increased concentration.
This training is a combination of various modern techniques pushing physical and mental limits aiming to develop spatial perception and coordination skills of dancers.
It's based an open-level classes allow students to explore the body's relationship to breath, weight and space through standing and floor work and traveling combinations.
The choreography
learned at the end of the class joins the creative process of choreography atelier.
The atelier connects to a previously created piece The Beetle Syndrome, which is inspired by transformation. The theory of the beetle by Wajdi Mouawad a Lebanese writer: he contemplates on the place of artists in society. Through this theory, he describes the beetle as one of the mammals having one of the most evolved insides in the world capable to digest everything from the inside world.
The idea is to accentuate the theory of the writer. As a material the video tapes VHS can help dancers and the audience to realize the connection between society and individuals, all the hard impacts coming from outside imposing and we need to live inside of it, hidden and it’s up to us how much we can see and show for and from the outside.
The warm up exercises are helping to psych up for the class understanding the importance of touch, weight, balance, axis, off-center, falls. Among the various fast, slow also fluid movements we stimulate other senses and emotions as well. With various types of exercises such as “the Signature”, “Sentence on the wall”, “Remind the insect”, “Baguette and ball”, we would like to arrive at the end of the workshop into a short choreography create collectively significantly involving the dancers and their personal capabilities.
With the three hours choreography atelier dancers have a chance to discover connection with space, with limits of their own body and the possibility of connecting with others through improvisation. The atelier based on a predetermined subject where dancers will work under certain rules creating an independent conception to a short variation. As a warm up we would like to give a short contemporary dance training focusing on conscious body control and increased concentration. This training is a fusion of various modern techniques pushing physical and mental limits aiming to develop spatial perception and coordination skills of dancers.