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Thomas Körtvélyessy
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during the production of C
- Rotterdam, NL 2008photo by Konrad Szymanski |
Thomas Körtvélyessy, MA, MCKA Under the name Reàl Dance Company he has created and performed an ongoing body of solo and group- works in Rotterdam, other cities in the Netherlands, and abroad, incl. New York City, since 1996. The performances often happened in public space and in an interdisciplinary context with visual or media-artists. They have been supported by grants from the Rotterdam Arts Council, the Municipality of the Borough of Delfshaven, the Fleur Groenendijk Foundation, and the Kinetic Awareness® Center. He is also a regular contributor to Elaine Summers' ongoing worldwide web-project www.skytime.org teaching From his study of Kinetic Awareness® Thomas originated a number of practices: available tension started as a performance-series in 2003. It is based on the 4th phase of KA® (tension-levels) and has grown into a syllabus that bridges several generations of so-called 'Western-theaterdance' towards a new potential. · con·sens·us explores the 5th phase of KA® (interaction with others) and started in 2002, also as a performance-series, together with Eva Tremel. It researches and experiments with sensory-based agreement in dance and daily life. Together with the inspiration of Elaine Summers' Invitation to Secret Dancers this practice has lead to the Dutch version called uitnodiging aan stiekeme dansers and community-dance project Delfshaven Dans! and but also walking con·sens·us with an adaptation for skytime · The overall resulting state can be referred to as sensitive energy All of these practices include lots of improvisation, methods and exercises from other body-work and disciplines, and can be done by anyone on their own level. The goal is always kinesthetic empowerment, for the practitioner but also for those who the witness. Since 2007 Thomas is the first Certified Master Teacher of Kinetic Awareness® (MCKA) in the Netherlands. He has taught pioneering classes in Hungary, Ukraine, Turkey, and South Korea. He is also affiliated with ArtEZ School of Dance, Arnhem, where he made his MA in choreography in 2002. The Dutch website of Kinetic Awareness® can be found here. writing Thomas has conducted longtime research about Elaine Summers since working with her in 1993 and has written several times about her work, including a first article about Elaine Summers on Wikipedia and the first Wikipedia-entry on KA® Since 1995 he is an editor and collaborator on the forthcoming Elaine Summers Dance Score Book. (for more articles, click here or see the box below) |
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