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Macao x Greece Double Bill Performance
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​"Step+"
Macao X Greece Dance Exchange Program

​2018.09.24 - 2018.10.06

Activities include: Morning Class I &II, Partnering Workshop, Creation Workshop, Double Bill Performance, Scholarship to “One Small Step” International Dance Festival
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"Step +” is a project which aims at connecting emerging dance festivals with Macao. This year, “Step+” connects with “One Small Step” International Dance Festival from Corfu, Greece and brings the creativity and passion in the Greek contemporary dance scene into Macao through a number of workshops and co-creations, so that dance lovers in Macao can bridge with Greek choreographers and start exploring dance together by establishing a conversation. 
 
“One Small Step” International Dance Festival in Greece hosts a diversified range of activities, including master classes, performances, studies on movement and urban landscape etc. All such activities are inspired by and collaborated with the Festival directors and founders,Christina Mertzani and Evanglelos Poulinas, who brought many renowned international artists into the city throughout the nine past editions of the Festival. “Step+” isinspired by this and wishes to gradually build from this small beginning step an international platform of developing dance festivals for the sustainable growth of the Macao dance environment (https://enamikrovima.eu).
 
From 2018.09.24 to 2018.10.06, we will invite Evangelos Poulinas and Chrisitna Mertzani to host a number of workshops, creative activities, and a performance in Macao. If you are interested in them, please read the following and register for the events!
* Please slide the workshop titles to view more items.
  • Morning Class I 
  •  Morning Class II 
  • Partnering Workshop
  • Creation Workshop and Presentation 
  • Double Bill Performance
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Morning Class I with Evangelos Poulinas
  • Time:2018.09.24-28 (Mon - Fri),10:00-11:45
  • Content:The class starts with mobilizing and stretching exercises and builds gradually floor work leading to very physical and dynamic phrases. We will deal with ways we can organize our body so we can be more efficient, faster and smother in moving into and out of the floor. We will use the gravity and the floor as dance partners that can support us and allow us to both bring our body out of balance and propel us to high jumps. In the class the participants are encouraged to take risks and explore their physicality, and by using their strengths to challenge their weak points.
  • Ref video: https://vimeo.com/254853345
  • Fee:MOP 500
Morning Class II with Christina Mertzani
  • Time:2018.10.01-05 (Mon - Fri),10:00-11:45
  • Content:In this class attention will be given to two main directions; technique and performance of movement.
In the first part, – warm up and body preparation – through simple exercises we will work on mechanisms we have at our disposal in order to approach the floor with safety, and speed, to move rapidly and with agility at the same time, and to cover as much space as possible using our full potential. We will then work with more complicated movement vocabulary of given choreography and we will focus on the intention and the ways we present movement to the audience. We will take into consideration the individual differences and at the same time we will work as a team. The main goal of this class is to open our senses, to communicate through movement with our colleagues and to gain more satisfaction through our dancing.
  • Ref video: https://vimeo.com/230262042
  • Fee:MOP 500
Partnering Workshop with Evangelos Poulinas and Christina Mertzani 
  • Date:2018.09.24-28 (Mon - Fri)19:30-22:00
  • Content:In this workshop we will explore ways to improve our corporeal awareness in connection with a partner. To achieve this goal, we are going to use elements from various techniques like contact improvisation, acrobatics, acro-yoga, improvisation, personal movement investigation and contemporary dance. The workshop progresses from simple exercises of receiving weight and moving as a couple or small groups, to more complex acrobatic exercises that lead gradually to the final partnering combination. At the same time, with proposals on sensations, feelings, images and movement qualities, you will be invited to discover and augment your personal way of moving. With the findings of this research we will set structured phrases, which will encourage your unique way of dancing. 
  • Ref info: https://enamikrovima.eu/project/master-class-with-christina-mertzani-and-evangelos-poulinas-partnering-2/
  • Ref video:https://vimeo.com/175859604
Creation Workshop and Presentation with Evangelos Poulinas  and Christina Mertzani 
  • Workshop Time:2018.10.01-05(Mon to Fri)12:00-1400, 15:00-18:00
  • Presentation Time:2018.10.06(Sat)14:00-22:00 
  • Presentation Venue:Black Box theatre of the Old Court Building
  • Content:In this workshop, the two hosts will co-create a piece with the participants. Throughout this co-creation process, it is expected that the participants in Macao and the hosts from Greece can establish a conversation and exchange their thoughts on creation, movement and performance. Towards the end of the workshop, the co-created piece will be presented on 2018.10.06 by all participants at the Old Court. Since the presentation is part of the drive of this workshop, please note that we only accept participants who can take part in both the workshop and the presentation.  Participants in this workshop are required to submit his/her CV and related videos for ref. upon application.
  • Fee:MOP 500(will be fully refunded to the participant if his/her participation rate reaches 80% or above)
Double Bill Performance
  • Time:2018.10.06, 20:00 
  • Venue:Black Box Theatre at the Old Court Building
  • Ticket Price: MOP150
  • Piece I:Piece co-created in the “Step by Step” Creation Workshop
  • Piece II:“Alternative Bodies”, choreographed and performed by Christina Mertzani and Evanglelos Poulinas/ free fall
  • Trailer:https://vimeo.com/150048528
  • More info:https://www.facebook.com/events/2228792510510114/
 
* Info on Venue and Workshop Details will be emailed to participants
  1. Scholarship:
The workshop instructors will choose among workshops two potential participants and offer each of them a scholarship to attend one relevant contemporary dance technique workshop free at “One Small Step” 2019 in Greece. 
Application:
Fill out the online form(http://goo.gl/Ep848d), participants will receive a confirmation email with payment instructions upon successful application.  Participants in the Creation Workshop are required to submit his/her CV and related videos for ref. upon application.
 
Discounts:
Except from the Creation Workshop, the following discounts apply to all other workshops  
  1. Workshop Early-bird special: 50% off for successful applications on or before 2018.08.31, 30% off for successful applications on or before 2018.09.15. 
  2. “Dansations” creator special: All creators in “Dansations – an Incubation Project” will receive a DansaPass, which allows them to attend all “Step by Step” workshops  free. 
  3. Group ticket special:each purchase of 4 presentation tickets will receive a 30% discount off the total price. 
  4. “Step+X Dansations” special: With every purchase of “Step+”presentation ticket, 30% will be taken off a purchase of “Dansations” ticket, and vice versa.
Apply HERE
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“One Small Step” International Dance Festival
"One Small Step" is being organised since 2010 by free fall / ελεύθερη πτώση under the artistic direction of Christina Mertzani and Evangelos Poulinas. It holds performances, workshops, exhibitions, video projections etc.In all those 7 years renowned artist from all over the world have been invited to perform, teach and create work in Corfu. 
 
The city is a stage. Its buildings, its streets, its squares and its people perform in it. And the public space reveals itself as the ideal ground for the artists to express the contemporary artistic creation, to unfold the ideas and images of contemporary dance, to exchange knowledge, inspiration and visions, to colour the city. The artists of an urban dance festival change the entire image of the city, without ever interfering in it! The city transforms into a platform for communicating ideas, into a fountain of creative stimulation, a meeting point and common frame of reference for dancers and spectators.
 
The festival takes place everywhere in the city. In its squares and streets, in familiar public buildings. The urban landscape thus embodies both dancers and spectators: anyone present in the city of Corfu during the festival can watch the events – and maybe even participate in them.
 
“One Small Step”Festival webpage: https://enamikrovima.eu
“One Small Step”video from workshops: https://vimeo.com/183479158
“One Small Step” video from performances: https://vimeo.com/178540473

Instructors
Christina Mertzani 
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Christina graduated as a choreographer, dancer and dance teacher from the Athens State School of Dance in 2004."without trace", Christina’s first choreographic video work, got an award by the British Council in2014.Ever since, Christina has been working internationally as a choreographer, performer and teacher. She has choreographed for V.Void, Arthrosis, Di.Pe.The.Corfu, SOZO among other projects and as a founding member of “free fall”, she has presented ''metamorfosis'', ''inside'', "mix-up", “cube", “alternative bodies" and the video dance "entanglement", "reborn temptation", "60 pulses" in Greece, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. As a performer Christina has worked with Stella Zannou, Kostandin Mixos, Kat Valastur, Apostolia Papadamaki, Maria Gorgia, Sofia Spyratou and danced choreographies by Wim Vandekeybus, Mark Morris and Martha Graham.
 
In the last 12 years, she has been teaching extensively in Europe and leading Master classes, workshops and intensives for both dancers, companies, theatres, Universities studios and  dance schools such as: cie.toula limnaios, Marameo, Staatstheater Osnabrück, Landesbühnen Sachsen, Staatstheater Kassel, Staatstheater Heidelberg, Tanzbüro Basel, Staatstheater St. Gallen, Staatstheater Bern,Nachschub, HJS Profitraining Amsterdam , SOZO visions in motion, Landestheater Linz, Anton Bruckner University.


Teaching Videos:
https://vimeo.com/246990377
https://www.facebook.com/freefallco/videos/1515913498486761/  
https://www.facebook.com/christina.mertzani.9/videos/2016788728564902/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8_P6oQekp4
Evangelos Poulinas 
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Evangelos holds an MFA in dance from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, a Diploma from the Athens State School of Dance and a Bachelor from the Physical Education Department, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. He has been credited with scholarships from numerous prestigious foundations, such as Alexandros S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, New York University, Greek State Scholarship Foundation and DanceWEB Europe. As a creator, Evangelos has shown work in the U.S.A. and Europe and as a performer, he has danced creations by Johannes Wieland, Maxine Doyle, Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo, Marcel Leemann, Constanza Macras, Konstantinos Rigos, Nigel Charnock, Jasmin Vardimon and Wim Vandekeybus among others. As a teacher, Evangelos has taught contemporary technique, partnering and community dance classes in Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Greece, Austria, U.S.A. and Sweden. Evangelos is co-founder of “b12”. Since 2010, Christina and Evangelos co-direct "One Small Step" international urban dance festival in Corfu / Greece.
 



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​Teaching Videos:
https://vimeo.com/207072776
https://vimeo.com/93344658
https://vimeo.com/254853345

​Inquiry and contact:
Tel:28329229
Email:[email protected]
Address:Av. da Praia Grande, 807-815, Centro do  Comercio Talento, 7 Andar, Ieng Chi Dance Association, Macao S.A.R
Facebook: @stepplusmo
Artistic Director :Lilian Ieng Chi, Kuok
Producers:Chloe Lao |Mary Wong
Technical Director : Calvin Lam 
Deputy Stage Manager:Nicholas Tang

Assistant Stage Manager:San Fong
Admin Manager:Yuki Ng
Organized by:Ieng Chi Dance Association Macao
Sponsored by:ICM|Macao Foundation
Venue Sponsored by:ICM
Partner:”One Small Step” International Dance Festival | Free Fall |
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Technical Coordination:Inspiration 4Cs

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      • Step+ 2024
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      • 參與2019馬來西亞邦咯海島節 Participating in the 2019 Pangkor Island festival at Malaysia
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      • Dansations 舞聲舞息 2024
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