Every body has a home base of movement. Our experience, whether it is in daily life or dancing, influences our movement and leaves the usual paths along which we walk here or there, not always realizing it.
 During the workshop we will search our personal movement habits and learn our pleasant way to interact with the floor and with each other. Workshop is based on knowledge from several areas that I have worked in depth, such as partnering, floorwork, martial arts, kinesiology and improvisation.
 The class begins by memorizing the basics of how the joints of the body work. Then we move on to explore the principles of the body's interaction with the floor, understanding each trajectory of motion. We will search for different possibilities to release, to feel the gravity and resist it. The main idea is to find effective ways to use the floor in the dance, alone or with each other, and move familiar and smoothly in space. To explore our «blind spots» in individual work as well as in pairs.

Yulia Mezhetskaya is a dancer, choreographer and teacher based in Jerusalem, Israel. Born in 1992 in Moscow, Russia, she began dancing at the age of ten and has continued to practice her passion ever since. 

She began her professional training as a pole dancer (2rd place PoleArt competition Italy, 1st place PoleTheatre competition Russia) and continued her practice in various Russian and USA schools and studios. Since then, for the last decade, she has been working as a trainer and a judge of various competitions of that artistic field. 

In 2014, she moved to Israel where she graduated at the "HaKvutza" Dance School (Tel Aviv) and then in spend a summer at the DASS Dance Course that took place in La Faktoria Dance School (Pamplona, Spain). 

Yulia works as a dancer with various Israeli and International choreographers, among them Ofra Idel, Omer Krieger (Germany-Israel), Maayan Liebman-Sharon, Claudia Lavista (Mexico), Tammy Izhaki, Elad Schehter, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage (Canada) and more. As a dancer and choreographer she has taken part in the Israel Festival, MASH International Dance Festival, ZIVA Dance Festival (Slovenia), the 6th Berlinar Herbstsalon (Germany), Jerusalem International Solo Dance Festival, From Jaffa to Agripas Dance Festival (Israel), 10/20 Festival (Israel), Jerusalem Art Festival and more. 

Her Choreographic work debuted in 2016 with a full-length performance called ‘Pole Dance Show’, premiered in Beit Mazia, Jerusalem. Since then, she has created her work "Ligament" (2021), premiered as a part of the Jerusalem Art Festival. In 2021, Yulia was invited to take part at the ‘Derida Dance Center’ residency program (Sofia, Bulgaria) where she created the work "Energy Conversation". The work premiered at Machol Shalem Dance Center and since then has been presented more than 15 times throughout Israel and abroad. In March 2023 Yulia premiered her new creation “Even Your Trust Has Weight” as a part of 10/20 Festival hosted by Jerusalem CityHall. Yulia was invited to take part in the International Choreographers Retreat that will take place in June 2024 in Montreal, Canada. 

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Event not recommended to audiences under the age of 18
Event in English

REGISTRATIONS CAN BE DONE FROM JUNE 7, 2024 UNTIL JUNE 19, 2024 AT THE ADDRESS constantin.gajim@ulbsibiu.ro