openflr 2017

One week has passed by since the end of OpenFLR 2017. It has been an amazing and intense edition. The Openflr team would like to thank everybody involved: our choreographers Dorotea Saykaly, Shumpei Nemoto, Jasmine Ellis, Christopher Evans, their assistants Ale Marzotto, Miguel Angel Guzmán, Rachele Rapisardi, our Countertechinque teacher Jenia Kasatkina, our partners in crime Il Vivaio del Malcantone, Le […]

THANK YOU

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OpenFLR 2018 Final Presentation

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Vverde Ggreen (perfromance site specific#Openflr)

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It’s with sadness that we find ourselves obliged to announce a change in our program: due to unforseen circumstances Sebastien Perrault will not be able to join us in Florence. Sebastien was very sad about it and wished well to all participant, choreographers and the OpenFLR team. However, we are […]

Announcement: Change of Plans

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OpenFLR is offering a series of Open Classes for professionals dancers! Come and join OpenFLR 2017’s participants in their morning training, get acquainted with new techniques, meet dancers and teachers from all over the world! There will be two classes offered every day, with an array of teachers! […]

OpenFLR 2017: OPEN CLASSES

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It is with great pleasure that the OpenFLR team announces the selection of the fourth choreographer who will devise work this summer in Florence during OpenFLR 2017. The talent we had to evaluate was immense, and it has been a very challenging task to achieve. We are happy to welcome […]

OpenFLR Young Talent 2017: Dorotea Saykaly

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Canadian dancer Dorotea Saykaly is currently working with the Goteborg Danskompani since 2014. Since joining the company, she has worked with choreographers Ina Christel Johannessen, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Marina Mascarell, Saburo Teshigawara and Alan Lucien Oyen. She has also performed works by Sidi-Larbi Cherkaoui, Hiroaki Humeda, Ohad Naharin and Sharon Eyal. […]

Dorotea Saykaly

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Workshop di Countertechnique e Inprovvisazione condotto da M. Eugenia Demeglio. L’ incontro si svolgera’ all’Associazione Demidoff, da Venerdi’ 24 Marzo sera a Domenica 26 Marzo 2017. Venerdi’ 24 Marzo: 18:00-20:00 Countertechnique (tecnica contemporanea) Sabato 25 Marzo: 15:00-19:00 Improvvisazione Domenica 26 Marzo: 10:00-12:00 Countertechnique (tecnica contemporanea) 13:00-17:00 Improvvisazione e Instant Composition […]

Workshop OpenFLR Youth 24/26 Marzo

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Jasmine Ellis, born in Canada, is a dancer and choreographer. Since 2006, Ellis has worked for companies including; Dorky Park -‐ Costanza Marcas (DE), Random Collison (NL), Satellite production -‐ David Russo (DE), Bavarian State Opera and choreographers including; Edan Gorlicki NL), Ido Batash (IS), and Anna Reiti (HG). Her […]

Jasmine Ellis

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The class is designed to give dancers tools to identify and access a range of variations on floorwork, footwork, and partnerwork. And the connections between them. We will begin our warm up playing with improvisation tasks introducing the concept of spirals and the awareness of breathing, to be ready, […]

Tecnica Contemporanea con Cristina D’Alberto

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Cristina D’Alberto’s trajectory as a dancer starts with ballet in her hometown (Torino) and consolidates after graduating at the Montecarlo dance academy Princess Grace in 2005. Two years later, Cristina moves to Florence, where she starts her professional training in contemporary dance at the Opus Ballet. Between 2009 and 2011, […]

Cristina D’Alberto

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Shumpei Nemoto received his dance training at the Nemoto Ballet Studio in Japan and at the English National Ballet School after receiving Espoir prize at Prix de Lausanne in 1999. He started professional career at the Royal Ballet in 2000 and danced at Deutsche Oper Am Rhein between 2003-2007 and […]

Shumpei Nemoto

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Following the success of 2015 and of 2016, OpenFLR will organise an extra performance for the participants of OpenFLR. This improvisation performance will take place in Florence’s public space, and it will be lead by local artists Carolina Amoretti and Cristina D’Alberto, members of FIKA. NOTE: the process and the […]

Site Specific Performance 2017

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Jenia Kasatkina studied modern and contemporary dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy, Codarts. During her education and after her graduation in 2009 she has worked with several companies and choreographers such as: Anouk van Dijk, Jack Gallagher, Arno Schuitemaker, Leine&Roebana, Norrdans, De Stilte, United-C, among others. In 2012 Jenia became […]

Countertechnique with Jenia Kasatkina

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Alessandro has graduated from Rambert School in London and he now is a freelancer developing projects across Europe. He has been Co-director of Impermanence Dance Theatre in Bristol (UK) for the past five years while also working on solo work presented at different festivals and cabaret stages internationally.He has started his career joining ITdansa in […]

Contemporary with Alessandro Marzotto Levy

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Christopher began his career with the Hofesh Shecter Company. Since 2006 he has been one of it’s original company members, making and touring Internationally. His relationship to the work has always been strengthened through leading workshops and intensives worldwide. During this time he has also worked with Jonathan Lunn to […]

Contemporary with Christopher Evans and Rachele Rapisardi

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Born in 1980 in Italy, in 2004 he finished his MA studies in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Padua. He started studying dance in Padua with C. Di Napoli. In 2006, he was invited to join the Rotterdam Dance Academy (Codarts) where in 2008 he obtained a […]

Contemporary with Giacomo Della Marina

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OpenFLR is striking deals for the participants concerning accommodation! Ostello Sette Santi is offering a special rate of 20EUR pp (+ breakfast for 3EUR pp) in a 4-beds room shared with other participants of OpenFLR 2017. Please contact the hostels directly for the booking, mentioning that you are a participant […]

Accommodation 2017

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