Profitraining with Beljana Metje
About the training
The class consists of a set warm-up class leading into a guided investigation of movement research and tools for instant composition.
The warm-up class is a practice of body and mind, designed for animating one’s own creative work. We tune into instinct-based universal tools of movement and body consciousness like the relationship to gravity, centre, coordination, musicality, qualities. This practice aims to train the mind to sink into the body to facilitate the ability to instantly act and create. The practice is based on training knowledge found in international movement and performance traditions such as contemporary to urban dance styles, Tai Chi, Karate, Japanese Butoh and Classical Indian dance.
In the second part of the training session, she provides tools and improvisation scores designed to expand the sensitivity, creativity, imagination and porousness of the body towards a greater range of movement possibilities in composition of time and space. We will work with the interplay between movement, source and image and dive into the craft of phrasing.
Beljana Metje is a dancer, choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist. She graduated in 2021 from the University of Music and Dance Cologne / CCD, and is about to start the Master in Choreography at KHiO, Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She co-founded the artist residency “Nangilima” on El Hierro (Canary Islands) and the dance company “Nangilima Project” in collaboration with the artist Valtteri Keinänen. During the recent years they have been producing, teaching and presenting their works in local and europe-wide contexts.
Beljana’s work breathes in deep interweaving with the curiosity and passion to instantly create, and is coloured by cross-disciplinary collaborations with artists such as the Brazilian composer Otacilio Melgaco as well as poets, authors, painters, musicians. Her movement language sources from floorwork and release techniques, martial arts, Butoh, as well as from the investigation between abstract movement and the tangibility of the human body experiencing life.