Director: Jyrki Karttunen
Time and duration: 18-25.7.2009, daily 10am - 4pm
Price: 250 eur (see course sales conditions)
Applications: by e-mail harri@fullmoondance.fi
Information: artistic director Harri Kuorelahti / harri@fullmoondance.fi


Choreographer Jyrki Karttunen will lead a new concept workshop for
dance-field professionals and students at Full Moon Dance Festival.

The workshop is comprised of a one-hour warm-up and work led by
Karttunen. Participants will become familiar with his working method
as a choreographer and the movement world he creates. The
work-in-progress type performance will be prepared during the course
and presented at the festival programme on Saturday 25th of July. This
workshop will be at the same time the beginning of a rehearsal period
for Karttunen Kollektiv?s new group work. The new course concept gives
participants the chance to familiarise themselves with Karttunen
Kollektiv?s working methods and movement ideas, and at the same time
influence the Karttunen Kollektiv piece Days of Disco, which is
currently being made and will be premiered in the autumn 2009.

The goal of the workshop is to apply new kinds of ideas about the
working method and goal of dance courses. The course offers
choreographer the chance to experiment with ideas for a piece, and it
will provide the participants with a deeper than normal perspective on
the choreographer?s way of perceiving dance expression and movement.
Daily working time might vary according to changes agreed on the
course to make it possible to work in smaller groups too. We kindly
ask participants to present their professional background with short
cv and motivation for this workshop.

The wide-scale use of different kinds of methods of expression is
characteristic of Karttunen?s work, and this means that the dancer
must have the skill to consciously vary their way of performing
between different performance techniques. Karttunen?s movement
language is characterised by the goal of striving to bring together
the here-and-now quality in the performance and movement based on a
pre-defined form, and at the same time seeing the performer as a
creator rather than a realiser.
www.karttunenkollektiv.fi

" I see dance as something different from the presentation of ready
opinions and claims. Dance art to me is fundamentally an abstract art
form. Its meaning is found in the fact that it happens in the
here-and-now. It shows movement and events, that is world is not yet
complete. Deborah Hay has had a big effect on my way of thinking about
this. [...]
This presentation of the unready means that how things appear on the
stage becomes more fundamental than what is being shown there. I think
that the content of a piece could be how things are presented.

Jyrki Karttunen (source: Kirsi Monni: "Monien tilanteiden mies",
published on the Zodiak website 04/2008)

Full Moon Dance Festival's dance piece workshop group will, with Jyrki
Karttunen in charge, prepare an outline of a performance based on the
themes of Karttunen's piece Days of Disco, which he will work on later
in autumn 2009. Days of Disco is a kind of journey in time to the
golden age of disco in the 1970s. Karttunen's piece, which will be
completed later in autumn 2009, will be realised by five dancers who
have already been chosen and a planning group, some of whom will also
be present at the Pyhäjärvi course.


Further information: Karttunen Kollektiv: www.karttunenkollektiv.fi
Further information on other courses and festivals: www.fullmoondance.fi
Contact: info@fullmoondance.fi

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FORNIER ORTIZ - PHYSICAL AND DYNAMIC FLOOR WORK

21.-24.7. klo 12-2 pm at Ikosen koulu.
Teacher: Fornier Ortiz
Price: 60 EUR
Language: English

Contemporary dance course for professional dancers and students. Physical and Dynamic Floor Work  The class begins with slow manipulations of the joints and gently stretching of the body, it is an aim to warm up the muscular system from the center towards the extremities creating more space inside the joints, in order to find more flexibility and to stimulate the blood circulation. The focus of the class is learning how to consciously direct energy through the limbs and joints and find connections through the body in relation to the floor. Throughout the class it is an idea to create a greater awareness of each individual dancer in relation to the space and to the energy of the group. The class contains of three stages, starting on the floor, center work and a dance phrase  all emphasizing the dancers relation to the floor. The dance phrase is active and dynamic collection of the previous material in relation to the space. Fornier Ortiz is a freelance dancer and dance trainer. Born in Colombia, he graduated at the Colombian Institute of Classical Ballet Incolballet and at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany as Postgraduate in Modern Dance. He s a professional dancer since 1993 having a classical background throughout the years of working he has developed strong contemporary skills, with main interest in the floor work. As a performer he has been working under direction of: Ismael Ivo, Morgan Nardi, Mark Sieczkarek, Juan Kruz Diaz, Malou Airaudo, Gabriella Maiorino,Ilona Pászthy, Carmen Werner, Gabrielle Staiger, Alvaro Restrepo, Ma. France Delouvin, Dominique Dupuy, Ivan Favier, and many others. He has been invited to teach at: Incolballet, Colegio del Cuerpo, Caliendanza Festival (Colombia), Theatherschool (Amsterdam), Barnes Crossing (Köln), Dansetraining Brabant (Tilburg), S.E.A.D ( Salzburg), Master Class at the Open Look Festival (St. Petersburg). Henny Jurriens Fundation (Amsterdam), Tanzhause NRW (Düsseldorf).

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Palle Granhøj workshop - Obstruction technique

25.7. at 12-2pm Ikosen koulu
Course Price: 20EUR
Contemporary dance course for professionals and students

GRANHØJ DANS - The Obstruction technique

The method

The working method is to Palle Granhøj the starting point of a process that leads to find the material of every production: A sequence of movements developed by a dancer  that might as well be the result of a concrete task suggested by the choreographer - is subject to different ways of obstructing actions coming from the outside, that forces him or her to adapt or reshape the movements, discovering in the way new, unexpected patterns of movement. The work leads at the same time the dancer to a higher level of awareness of the physical principles that rule the movement. In the demanding process of deconstructing systematically the movement in order to give it a different shape or eventually turn back to the original movement later on, the dancer releases a particular kind of energy that amplify the level of expressivity of the movement, allowing him or her to develop a strong stage-presence and authenticity

To find the core of the dance

The obstruction technique seeks to find the core of the movement, which is at the same time to find the core of dance. What is dance and what is the dancer`s role in the dance? The working method helps also finding personal answers to these questions Palle Granhøj has developed the Obstruction Technique in his personal way inspired in a working experience with the North American choreographer/director Nancy Spanier (Colorado) who introduced him for the main principles of the obstruction technique.
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Ervi Siren - Contemporary dance cource

21-24.7. at 9.30-11.30am Pohdin talo
Course Price: 65EUR

The course if for everyone who´s interested in Siren´s method or in developing your own body, movement and mind. Full Moon Dance Festival continues the famous contemporary course of Ervi Siren. The working on the course happens with conscious breathing and voice. This way you open the inner condition and flow of your body and thus also the spiral energy and movement of joints opens. By movement themes you find sharp sensing of body and movement and you advance to your own dance. Ervi Siren has worked a long time in Theatre Academy Helsinki, first in the beginning of 80´s as a lecturer of dance and from the beginning of 90´s until the end of 2007 as a professor of dance. Teaching, choreographing and performing have formed a solid entity. During the 25 years of teaching Siren have developed her own teaching method that can evolve dancer´s working skills and open dancer´s personality and awareness and lead to choreographic preforms and choreography.

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