Dances I teach

Dances I teach and love are closely related to my interests. I have always loved the music from the East, Gypsy music, abstract visual art, Islamic art, sacred geometry, Art Brut and Martial Arts. These arts helped me to understand the way of improvisation and my attitude.

  • Movement Design
  • dance and movement based on Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals. We are returning first to developmental patterns and from them we create and build many different moves and variations in combination with dynamics, relationship and space. We become more aware about our own body, about relationship with others and the environment. It is a healing body-mind system enhancing our creativity and intuition. Highly beneficial for dancers, non-dancers, athletes, active seniors, couches, therapeuts or just anybody who is interested being fully in the body.
  • Dance Flow:  In these classes I use a dance technic from the East (Orient and Asia), Martial arts and the western contemporary dance - based on the Laban/Bartenieff system.  My big inspiration is Hilal Dance :  the roots are in Egyptian folklore, the expression is contemporary.  We work with spatial design, body shape, Sufi whirling attitude, rhythm and martial arts principles. It is a gracious dance form, friendly to the body, with healing aspects. As a holistic dance, it is based on the breath, flowing movements and inner/outer integration. The principles of this form provide lots of possibilities for improvisation, solo and group work.
  • Gypsy fusion                                                                                                                                                                                                                               My dance research brought me to India - Rajasthan  - a home of the Roma people.  Along with Hearn we had a wonderfull opportunity to stay with a family of musicians and learn their music and Sapera dance of the Kalbelyia tribe.  Here began my "Rromani" dance research, which continued the following years in Uzbekistan, Turkey, Iran, Russia, Balkan, Slovakia and Hungary.
  • Classes: A lots of different rhythms, body percussions, sensual arm and pelvic movements. I choose to use music not only suitable for dance, but which is highly artistic, contemporary and true to the Romani roots. 
  • Sapera  (Snake) - the name is derived from the imitating Cobra movement. The snake charmers - Kalbelyia people make living by playing a pungi on the street along with dancing cobras. Cobras are not easy to hunt, so the role of dance was taken by the Kalbelyia girls. The most famous Gulabi Sapera is now internationaly known and succesfull all over the world. That was her, who as a small girl was going with her father to play on the streets and thru her observation she created this unique form based on folkloric dance. (video www.youtube.com/watch#!v=fWCsOx3lO4s)
  • Persian Flamenco - synthesis of the fine Persian dance form and dramatic Flamenco. We dance it barefoot.
  • Persian dances: Uzbek, Tadjik, Afghan, Iranian traditional dance have a lot in common with Indian dance, but their sophistacated combinations are drawn from many sources: from nature, birds, everyday activities, rituals, court dances as well as Sufi traditions. Comparing to codified Indian dances they appear as a free form. For us they provide a unique insight into the Central Asian culture - their way of comunicating with themselves, God and also their relationship with the ground. Our eastern European way of thinking is quite close to theirs and i find them very inspirational. m nahlédnutím do těchto kultur. www.youtube.com/watch#!v=blageWMUemg
  • Sufi dance -  comes from a meditation and communication with the higher source or God.   I take my inspiration in poetry of masters like Rumi, Hafez, Khayyam, Sadi, Attar.... many people ask where they can learn Sufi dance.....but Sufi dance is not a form and has to come from inside. From each individual. It is a personal prayer, understanding, abiding and devotion.