KDF family

08.07-09.07

Kalamata Dance Megaron | Main Stage

Vitoria Kotsalou

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About the workshop

Dance workshop for parents and children (ages 5-12)

The workshop focuses on the question of what kind of games children and parents can play to allow creativity, communication, care and fun within their ever-changing physical relationship. Based on the theory and practice of Fighting Monkey, parents and children will have the opportunity to learn games that they may use in their daily lives. 

For parents, the workshop will also be useful to learn the skills and observational methods to keep a closer relationship with their children’s physical development and changes. Parents and children will learn how to understand information from movement, and how to give the necessary feedback for the creative development of presence and communication through the body. The workshop is open to all regardless of dance experience and aims to create a non-judgmental shared space for parents and children alike.

 

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About Vitoria Kotsalou

Vitoria Kotsalou has studied psychology at the University of Reading in the UK and is a self-taught dancer and choreographer. She is a founding member of the non-profit initiative R.I.C.E. and the RSOD School of Dance on the island of Hydra. She is a close collaborator of the choreographer Michael Klien and an active member of the En Dynamei Ensemble since 2014. As a choreographer, she has composed the works Day οut of Time, Mount, and Rite of Spring – A Map. As a dancer, she has collaborated on significant projects with Androniki Marathaki, Mariela Nestora, and Agni Papadeli Rossetou. She teaches dance to children, adults, and mixed ability groups, and also works as a choreographer for theatre performances. She explores dance as a form of intelligence, a mode of existence that characterises all living beings and reaches the true nature of things. Inspired by the study of different practices, philosophies, and collaborations, her thinking extends to social choreography, through which she observes the world and at the same time devises works that convey the possibility of change or of expanding the way in which the world is perceived and understood.