Beyond Technique - Atelier de dans contemporan
Profesoară: Andreea Vălean
Beyond Technique - Atelier de dans contemporan
Profesoară: Andreea Vălean
CCD workshops can be held in both Romanian and English!
Workshop Description:
The "Beyond Technique" workshop aims to explore the possibilities and freedom of movement found within one's own body. Participants will familiarize themselves with the space, partner work, and access different principles and qualities of movement through guided improvisations, coordination exercises, and floorwork.
Additionally, the work based on choreographic composition aims to improve the ability to memorize quickly, adapt to a different body logic by respecting the elements that make up movement phrases: points of contact with the floor, points of orientation of the body in space, movement quality, and the timing of each action.
Upon assimilating the movement phrases, the perspective from which the choreographic structure can be viewed will change, focusing on the individual quality of the participants to transform and alter the quality of the movement phrases based on specific themes and objectives.
Teacher’s Biography:
Andreea Vălean is a graduate of the "Floria Capsali" Choreography High School in Bucharest, class of 2017. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Performing Arts - Choreography in 2020 and her Master's degree in "Choreographic Art" in 2022 at the National University of Theatre and Cinematographic Arts "I.L. Caragiale" in Bucharest.
To further develop her skills as a dancer, Andreea participated in the Kalamata Dance Festival editions of 2022, 2023, and 2024, where she worked with internationally recognized teachers such as Anton Lachky, Horacio Macuacua, Linda Kapetanea, Josef Frucek, Edivaldo Ernesto, and Lali Ayguadé.
As a ballerina, she collaborated with the Comic Opera for Children from 2015 to 2017, and since the 2017 season, she has been a member of the ballet company at the Bucharest National Opera House. She gained recognition for her solo roles: "Tzeitel" in Tevye, "Little Swans" in Swan Lake, "Russian Dance" in The Nutcracker, "Solo Drums" in Bayadere, and "Solo Czardas" in Coppélia.
In contemporary dance, she performs with the company Contemporary Creative Dreamers in the shows "When Darkness Becomes Light," "Nihil Sine Deo," and "The Last Raid of Humankind," choreographed by Daniel Alexandru Dragomir. She also collaborates with Platforma 13 in the performances "Through here you can escape, run?!", "Play Replay Remix", and "Balkan Ballerinas" – choreographed by Anca Stoica and Sergiu Diță.
As a choreographer, she created "Hold ON", presented at the Young Choreographers’ Evening 2019, "Let me slip Through Your Fingers", a duet presented at the Florence Dance Festival 2022 and the Young Choreographers’ Evening ONB 2021, "Scraps of Sky", a solo presented at the Young Choreographers’ Evening 2021, the Jerusalem International Solo Dance Festival 2022, and SzólóDuó 2023, "Earthly Links", a duet presented at the Florence Dance Festival 2022, and her MA performance "Nexus", created in May 2022, which won the "Best Choreography" award at the UNATC Graduates Gala 2022 and the Dbutan-T Festival Award 2023.
As an assistant choreographer, she worked on "The Last Raid of Humankind" and "The Journal of Love", a show that is part of the repertoire of the Bucharest National Opera.
Company’s Description:
Contemporary Creative Dreamers Dance Company is an independent cultural organization which carries out its activity in the field of Choreographic Art since 2018, the year in which the company was established at the initiative of the choreographer Daniel Alexandru Dragomir.
The purpose of the organization is to build a favorable context for carrying out activities artistic in the area of contemporary dance, for young dancers, performers, composers and visual artists.
Among the main objectives are listed:
1. Development of Choreographic Art in Romania through the production and broadcasting of performances by contemporary dance at national and international level;
2. Increasing the quality of training of professional dancers by organizing programs intensive professional training;
3. Supporting the new generation of professionals through projects dedicated to pupils and students state and private vocational education institutions;
4. Encouraging the practice of contemporary dance as a form of physical development by any person by constantly organizing contemporary dance workshops for amateurs;
5. Connecting to the international context and building an educational platform international by inviting and hosting workshops supported by teachers who operates in the European Union, the United States of America and Asia;