Teachers 2011 - BRIDGE

Teachers 2011

	Maria Barrios Zaks (Venezuela) www.caracasballet.com Classical Ballet Maria Eugenia Barrios Zaks has had a long career creating and dancing as a soloist for many ballet companies throughout the world. She has danced with the National Ballet of Canada, as a soloist with Rudolf Nureyev, the Lucerne Ballet, Arena di Verona (Italy) and the Israel Ballet. Her works have been performed by the National Ballet of Canada, the Lucerne Ballet, Ballet of the Teatro Teresa Carreño and the Galaxie Ballet (NYC – Taiwan). Maria is the recipient of numerous awards including the choreography competitions of Cologne (Germany), Nyon (Switzerland), and the "Scene Francaise (Paris, France). In 1990 she won the CONAC Award for her work in dance. In 1992 she returned to Venezuela where she founded the Caracas Ballet (BCC) with her husband, Ofer Sachs. Maria holds a BA and MFA from Juilliard in New York. She and her husband have recently settled in Israel. Maria will be teaching classical technique for intermediate and advanced students with an emphasis on efficient use energy, arms and “epaulement,” turns and jumps, energies in opposition, tension and release, transfer of weight, and prevention of injuries.
	Bruno Bouché (France) www.operadeparis.fr www.artdusablier.fr Classical Ballet “Bruno Bouché, one of the most appreciated members of the corps de ballet of Paris Opera Ballet, conceived a diversified program without any lassitude, to show how the rising generation of Paris Opera Ballet dancers are now well ready not only to dance the great classical repertory on top form but to create their own choreography or to interpret the newest contemporary works. This is a very impressive demonstration that will tame those individuals who persist in maintaining ghettos barriers between classical and contemporary dance.” —Gérard Mannonni Bruno joined the Paris Opera ballet 1989 where he regularly performs the company’s repertoire including the works of Pina Bausch, George Balanchine, Angelin Preljocaj, Rudolph Nureyev and Roland Petit. Bruno is also a core member of the Opera’s Young Dancers Project and recently founded the project “Incidence Choreographique,” which sets the work of independent choreographers on the Paris Opera dancers and performs them throughout the world. In 2009 the company performed at the Karmiel Festival and the Suzanne Dellal Centre and will return to Israel again this year. Bruno has recently begun to choreograph and currently appears as a guest artist in projects throughout the world. Bruno will be teaching ballet technique and contemporary repertoire.
	Gilles Chuyen Gilles Chuyen was born in the south of France where he trained in Folk, Modern Jazz, Ballet and contemporary dance forms under many teachers such as Evelyne Leclercq, the Lazarov and Myriam Berns. He moved to India in 1994 to complete a Ph.D related to cultural issues and also trained in Chhau Mayurbhanj, a martial dance from Orissa, from Eastern India. Since then Gilles has been experimenting with Indian dance and theatre traditions: Kathak, Bharata Natyam, Bollywood dance style and also yoga and meditation as tools for creativity. For Gilles, dance is not about forms or steps but essentially about energy that he likes to share with dancers, actors, children and audiences from all over the word. The workshop will begin with dance meditation--a process of visualization and channeling of energies giving birth to self generated movements, working on colors, emotions and elements. The second half will focus on the exploration of Indian aesthetics, experimenting with elements of Bharata Natyam, Indian folk like Bhangra, Indian contemporary and Bollywood dance style, through a lyrical Bollywood dance choreograph.
	Liron Efrati (Israel) Hip-Hop A hip hop dancer and teacher for over ten years, Liron is known for having developed a unique movement language which includes waving, locking, popping, krumping and street jazz. Liron was a contestant on the first season of Israel's television show "Born to Dance" and has performed as a dancer with well-known musical artists such as "Roni Superstar" and Daniel Zilberstein. Liron teaches both in Israel and abroad, trains dance teachers at Wingate Institute for Physical Education, and teaches different genres of Hip Hop at the Dance City and Routina dance schools. Liron will be teaching Hip Hop with special emphasis in Waving, Locking, Popping, Krumping and Street Jazz.
	Miriam Kescherman (Israel) Contemporary Repertoire Miriam Kescherman studied dance at the National Dance Conservatory in Montevideo (Uruguay) and at the Joffrey Ballet School (New York). She holds a Certificate in Pilates Mat and Pilates Studio. Miriam danced at CND Compania Nacional de Danza – Artistic Director Nacho Duato (Spain), Bat Dor Dance Company – Artistic Director Jeanette Ordman (Israel), Ballet Hispanico New York – Artistic Director Tina Ramirez (USA), Joffrey Ballet II New York – Artistic Director Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino (USA), Sodre Compania Nacional de Danza – Artistic Director Eduardo Ramirez (Uruguay). She currently teaches in companies and schools both in Israel and abroad. Miriam will teach an excerpt from the solo "Rassemblement", by Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato (1991), to music of Toto Bissainthe. The work was inspired by the situation in Haiti, where the people (slaves), long for Africa as a mythical land of freedom – they express their resistance and refusal against the colonial powers.
	Barak Marshall (USA/Israel) www.barakmarshall.com Choreographic Workshop “Barak Marshall is a true auteur, a fully-fledged choreographer, with a powerful style and a unique voice. His work is muscular, original, fevered, carried by excellent dancers, and by an internal force and an intelligence that infuse it with eloquence that is at times arresting." —Raphael de Gubernatis, Le Nouvel Observateur Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Barak is the son of acclaimed dancer, choreographer and musician Margalit Oved. Since his accidental entrance into dance in 1995, Barak fast established himself as one Israeli dance’s most innovative and unique voices. Barak’s third work, Emma Goldman’s Wedding, represented Israel in the 1998 Bagnolet International Competition where it won first prize. His company went on to tour extensively throughout Europe, including performances in Berlin, Lyon and Paris. In 1999 Barak was invited by Ohad Naharin to become the Batsheva Dance Company’s first-ever house choreographer. Barak is also a singer and has performed as a soloist with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project, the Yuval Ron Ensemble and the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony. Barak studied social theory and philosophy at Harvard University. He is a guest lecturer at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures. He currently divides his time between Tel Aviv and Los Angeles. Barak recently received the prestigious Creative Capital Grant for his new music production, Symphony of Tin Cans, with Margalit Oved and the Balkan Beat Box. His work MONGER—which was commissioned by the Suzanne Dellal Center—is currently touring throughout Israel, Europe, Asia and the United States. Barak’s newest work, Rooster, premiered at the Israeli Opera House in November 2009. Barak will be teaching repertoire from his two last creations, Monger and Rooster, and will work-shop material for his new piece.
	Oz Morag (Israel) Choreographic Workshop A graduate of the Telma Yellin High School for the Performing Arts, the Bat Dor Dance School, Oz holds a BA in Musical Theatre from the London Studio Centre. Oz Morag is the Artistic Director of the television programs Dancing with the Stars, Born to Dance, The War of the Worlds and Israeli singer Rita's show, ONE. In Israel he has choreographed for several shows including Ghetto at the Cameri Theatre, Company at the Beer Sheva Theatre, The Good Boys at Beit Lessyn Theatre, Little Mermaid, Shrek the Musical, Zoro, Aladin, Cabaret, Sweet Charity, A Chorus Line, Broadway Memories. In television his work includes the Pre-Eurovision Song Contest 2011, Always the Same Dream, Dancing with the Stars, and Born to Dance. Oz has also worked in London with the Peter William Design for Dance, Jass Dance Company, PULSE 8 and on on the film Dirty Step Upstage. His credits as a director include: Shrek The Musical, When the shark and the fish met for the first time (Winner of Best Performance at the Haifa Chidren's Theatre Festival 2010), Broadway Memories and A Chorus Line at HaSifryia Theatre. Oz teaches at the Telma Yellin Arts High School, the Kibbutz Seminar and Beit Zvi Actig School. He is the recipient of the Telma Yellin Award and The Leverhume Trust Award. Oz will teach repertoire from old and new musicals, in a wide range of styles from old jazz to modern jazz.
	Naomi Perlov (Israel/France) Modern Born in 1959 to the renowned filmmaker David Perlov, Naomi received her dance training at Tel Aviv’s Bat Dor School, Schola Cantorum in Paris and with Milton Myers in New York. In 1984 she graduated with Honors from the Benesh Institute of Choreology and began working at the Paris Opera (G.R.C.O.P) as a choreologiste and rehearsal director. She worked with Regine Chopinot’s Company for 4 years and since 1998 has worked with Angelin Preljocaj, assisting in his creations and restaging his ballets all over the world including “Le Parc” at the Paris Opera (1994), “L’Oiseau du Feu” at the Munich Opera (1995), “La Stravaganza” at the New York City Ballet (1997), “Casanova” at the Paris Opera (1998), “Sacre du Printemps” at the Berlin Opera (2002) and “Medee” at the Paris Opera (2005). From 1994-1998 Naomi was the Co-Artistic Director of the Batsheva Ensemble alongside Ohad Naharin. From 1999-2005 she was the Artistic Director of the Shades of Dance Choreography competition. She has worked as an assistant to the choreographers Itzhik Galilee and Emanuel Gat and currently directs The Maslool, a professional dance-training program in Tel Aviv. Naomi will be teaching modern class.
	Samuel Wuerston (The Netherlands) Contemporary Dance/Composition Workshop Samuel Wuersten, dancer, teacher and choreographer, was born in Gstaad, Switzerland. He pursued formal dance studies at the Hamburg Ballet School and the Rotterdam Dance Academy as well as with different teachers in New York City. He performed as a dancer with various companies and projects in a wide-ranging repertory from modern dance pioneers like Doris Humprey and Jose Limon to contemporary artists like Amanda Miller, Ton Simons and Stephen Petronio. A much sought after teacher of modern dance, Samuel Wuersten has conducted teaching residencies in many different countries all over the world. His teaching credits for professional dancers and students include institutions such as the Rotterdamse Dansacademie, the Theaterschool for Modern Dance in Amsterdam, The Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the London Contemporary Dance School, Canada’s National Ballet School, the Henny Jurriëns Foundation, the Japan Ballet Seminars, the School of and Toronto Dance Theatre, Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel, the Richard Alston Dance Company, Charleroi Danses, Batsheva Dance Company and Ensemble, Modern Dance Theatre Ankara Ballet Gulbenkian, Gothenborg Ballet and Geneva Ballet. From 1997 until 2009, Samuel Wuersten was the official teacher of contemporary dance at the Prix de Lausanne. Samuel Wuersten started choreographing in 1992 in New York when he was invited to participate in the Danspace Project's showcase for emerging choreographers. He created a number of shorter pieces in Prague and in The Netherlands. In 1994 he produced his first extended work 'Handel With Care - Solos From A Suitcase', which was performed in The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and New York City. Other creations include 'Poise' for the Ballett Schindowski, Gelsenkirchen, 'Fractured Lullaby' for De Rotterdamse Dansgroep, 'Memento' for the Tanztheater der Komischen Oper, Berlin, 'Touch and Go' for TECS (Tanzensemble Cathy Sharp), Basle and 'Briget' for the BallettMainz. Samuel Wuersten also created solos for Amanda Miller ('Boomerang') and Jorma Uotinen ('In Memory of...'). In September 1994, Samuel Wuersten was appointed Artistic Director of the Holland Dance Festival, The Hague. He combines his work for the festival with a number of other activities. Between 1997-2010 he has been the Artistic Co-director of the Steps Festival in Switzerland and a member of the Artistic Committee of the Prix de Lausanne. In September 2000 he took on the post of Artistic Director at the Rotterdamse Dansacademie and in September 2004 he was invited to become the guest program director for dance at the Lucent Danstheater in The Hague. Since 2009, Samuel Wuersten is a member of the Executive of Codarts Rotterdam, University for the Arts. He also serves as advisor, board- and jury-member to different (inter)national dance institutions,-organizations and -events. Samuel Wuersten teaches a Cunningham-based contemporary technique class. A thorough warm-up is followed by slow and fast combinations through space as well as small and big jumps. Co-ordination and alignment form the key focus of the class work. Technique is applied as a key to freedom in dance. The workshop class deals with elements of composition and improvisation, exploring and developing different ideas. Solo, duet and group work are the formats used. Tasks and observation provide insight and trigger the imagination of the participants