Chrysa Parkinson & Martin Kilvády
Practice: Making Sense

Developing a personal practice The goal of the workshop is for each participant to recognise and find a way to do what they want to do. When are you Dancing? When are you Performing? Whose Dance is it? What is Technique? Whose Technique is it? Whose Performance is it? IS PRACTICE A PRODUCT? IS PRACTICE TRAINING? IS PRACTICE A PROCESS? IS STEALING A PRACTICE? WHAT‘S PASSION GOT TO DO WITH IT? We'll begin to develop a personal practice using dancing to make sense (sense of humor, vision, smell, proportion, hearing, justice, meaning, timing, movement a.o.). The class will be active and participatory, with not much talking. We will use open improvisation, partnering, simple scores, and some anatomical work. This workshop is geared toward performers. Martin Kilvady and Chrysa Parkinson have been working together for the past eight years. Chrysa Parkinson Chrysa Parkinson is a performer and teacher living in Brussels. She teaches regularly at P.A.R.T.S/Rosas and works as a mentor for the 2nd cycle students. She also teaches regularly at Dancentrum Jette in Brussels, Panetta Movement Center in New York, and at ImPulsTanz-Festival in Vienna. She is a member of ZOO/Thomas Hauert, and has also worked with Jonathan Burrows, Deborah Hay, John Jasperse, Meg Stuart, and David Zambrano. She was a member of Tere O’Connor Dance for many years in New York where she also performed with Irene Hultman, and Jennifer Monson, among other artists. During that time she taught at Movement Research and at NYU. She was awarded a Bessie for sustained achievement as a performer in 1996. In 2008 Chrysa worked as a teacher researching performance practices in Montpellier with 6M1L and Ex.e.r.c.e. In 2009/10 she is working as a performer on creations with Jonathan Burrows, Mette Ingvartsen, and Rosas. Martin Kilvady Martin Kilvady was born in 1974. After school he enrolled in a program for teacher education in contemporary dance at the School of Music and Dramatic Arts (Comenius University in Bratislava), where he received his MA.Choreographers and teachers who most influenced him as a dancer are: Jan Durovcik, Mira Kovarova and Libor Vaculik. 1997 he became a member of Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker's ROSAS dance company in Brussels. He danced in Would, in the reprise of Mikrocosmos and Achterland, and contributed to the creation of Just before, Drumming, I said, and In Real Time. Between 2001 and 2004 he collaborated with choreographer Roberto Olivan in the creation of Natural Strange Days and De Farra. Since 2003 he has been a member of Thomas Hauert's company ZOO performing in Five, Modify, More less said songs, Walking Oscar and Accords. Martin is a member and cofounder of LES SLOVAKS DANCE COLLECTIVE. Martin started to teach in 1991 and since 2001 has done training programs for ROSAS, ULTIMA VEZ, and CHARLEROI DANSE, workshops at P.A.R.T.S. and CDC Toulouse and teaching open classes at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna.