PERFORMER TRAINING
Multidisciplinary artists
In the ever-evolving landscape of the performing arts, how do we educate the future dancers/performers and pedagogues?
Performer Training is a interdisciplinary educational program, designed to provide the participants a wide range of tools, but also the time and space for a personal and artistic growth through research.
BIO
Tina is a multifaceted performing artist, dance educator, and researcher with a strong foundation in dance that began at the age of four at the Municipal Conservatory of Larissa, Greece.
Her early achievements include winning first place in the National Eurovision Young Dancers Competition in 2001 and representing Greece at the Grand Prix Eurovision at London’s Royal Opera House.
As a soloist with the Thessalian Ballet (Junior Dance Company), she excelled in classical and neoclassical repertoire, on national and international stages.
With a keen interest in dance pedagogy, Tina earned the State Diploma as a Dance Teacher from the Greek Ministry of Culture, graduating from the Higher Professional School of Dance in Thessaloniki in 2008. She further enhanced her skills and knowledge at the Epsedanse Higher Professional School of Dance in Montpellier, France, awarded an excellence scholarship from the Onassis Foundation.
Tina holds a Master’s in Dramaturgy and Performance Analysis from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Master of Arts in Dance from University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis.
Since 2009, she has been teaching contemporary and classical dance, theory, technique analysis, dance history, and improvisation at various professional and amateur schools across Greece and France.
In 2018, she developed an innovative workshop, "the Performer Training", which forms the foundation of her current PhD research at the School of Fine Arts, University of Peloponnese, focusing on contemporary pedagogical methods and interdisciplinary practices in dance education.
Tina has taught at esteemed institutions such as Choreia and Micadanses in Paris, as well as playing a pivotal role at the Higher Professional Dance School of Larissa.
As a freelancer, she actively leads workshops across Greece and France and has presented at notable conferences, including the 5th Colloquium for PhD Candidates at the University of Peloponnese and the International Conference “Cut&Paste: Dance Advocacy in the Age of Austerity.”
She is member of the International Dance Council CID - UNESCO and the Dance Research Congress (CORD).
CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
CONTEMPORARY RELEASE / FLOORWORK
Through a dialogue with space and time, we experience the possibilities of our body.
The class begins with a warm-up / physical preparation.
We take some time to realise the state of our body in the present moment and then we start moving consciously.
Alternating different qualities and dynamics of the movement, we begin to cross the space.
Simple kinetic propositions starting on the ground, evolve gradually in a game between levels and directions.
Playing with gravity, the momentum and the different starting points of the movement we get to reach more complex choreographic phrases.
The class focuses in a technical work but also gives to the participants the opportunity to explore their personal kinetic vocabulary.
BALLET / REPERTOIRE
Ballet: The purpose of this class is to approach ballet as live organism, through a contemporary point of view.
Using the body as a tool, we will progressively bring consciousness into every part it, in order to gain control and achieve the maximum of expression within it.
Organically composed, the class promotes musicality, rapidity and expressiveness.
Repertoire: Through a variety of classical and neoclassical variations, we learn different choreographic languages, that allows a more precise work in terms of technique and expressiveness. Each class starts with a barre/warm up and then continues with the chosen variation.
PERFORMER TRAINING WORKSHOP
This workshop is performing arts laboratory.
It emphasizes both on the physical and the mental/spiritual dimension of a performer-creator.
The development of the performer's consciousness and its ability to use all of his/her interpretative and creative tools, is the central axis of this educational approach.
It is a creative process in which one can continuously discover new possibilities combining movement with other performative means.
Open to dancers, comedians and circus artists (professionals and amateurs) in good physical condition.
YOGA
My Yoga path begins back in 2010, when through practice I start to explore this philosophy and way of being.
Experiencing movement through dance since a really young age and studying the functionality of the body, I was interested to a more holistic approach of oneself.
I am giving classes in a weekly basis since 2012.
My class aims to stimulate and respectfully explore the physical and spiritual limits of each participant.
Working on the harmonisation of movement with breathing and learning to accept ourself as we grow, we develop flexibility, strength and balance.
