For intermediate-advanced level CI dancers, but beginners are also welcome!

Dynamic Trios

I am curious to find tools what helps to dance trio contact improvisation. How to create alive dancing dialogue by using touch, movement, weight and balance? What kind of details we can find from trio dance by listening to the live situation. What if I have every moment in trio many possibilities where I can guide or allow dance to go. How well we recognize when we are leading or following the dance or when being just passive? What are my habits in trio dance and what are the directions in movement where I never want to go? So this will be lot about what kind of choices we make in trio dance and technical tools for trios.

Mirva Mäkinen

I am a 35-year old dancer. I graduated (MA) from the Dance Department of the Theatre Academy of Finland in 2000. After that I have worked widely in Finland as a dancer, dance teacher and choreographer.

From 2000 onwards I have acted as dance teacher and lecturer for dance at the Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts. I have also taught at domestic and international dance and contact improvisation festivals.

In dance I am interested in the feeling of flow and soft movement. I love to investigate movement, its rhythm and different ways of inhabiting the body. A feeling of dancing is created by being able to switch the body from total relaxation to extreme intensity and ìtensionî. I call this the body’s ability to breathe and create movement. My ideal is total presence, which makes every moment true and meaningful.

It’s a great opportunity to meet, learn and dance with a wonderful CI dancer and teacher Mirva! As well as share the dances and explorations with international participants and visit a beautiful capital of Lithuanian! Come to enrich your CI dance with a trio experience and practise, get some inspiration for your dance and a lot of joy and pleasure of learning!