Dance Mastery Workshop
“Whole self development through the dance for Inner Health , Happiness and Success”
Saturday 10th of March 10am to 2pm
Dance Mastery is an integrative movement system. It explores the underlying principles at the foundation of the dance, how these principles manifest and what we may achieve by tuning into all of our faculties: our thoughts, emotions, physical body and higher awareness simultaneously.
The system uses the classical western dance form as this already works with principles based on Natural Law, Centre of Gravity, Geometry, oppositional forces and direction of energy flow.
Dance Mastery involves a series of exercises and movement experiences that allow the freedom to enjoy one’s work by finding: inner health, happiness and success.
The Workshop will be led by Konstantin Pavlidis who created and founded DanceMastery over thirty years ago and has since been teaching the system successfully around the world in Dance Companies and Schools including The Dutch National Ballet, Ballet Bejart de Lausanne, the Stuttgart Ballet School, the Rambert Ballet School and the Universal Ballet Company-Korea
The Day will start with a practical morning session from 10am – 1pm
After the Lunch break, from 2pm, there will be a theoretical part followed by a second practical session to conclude the day by 5pm.
- Breathing, meditation and visualisation
- Activate and increase life force in the body in order to learn how energy can move us instead of using muscular strength.
- Understanding the natural laws of movement (Centre of gravity, geometry, oppositional forces, directions of energy flow)
- Applying these laws to the principle movements in classical dance to improve technique.
- Through the principles, find you own unique movement.
- Exercises that correct physiological/psychological imbalances and re-align the body.
- Philosophy of human movement in Classical Dance.
- Analysing an individual’s source of movement in dance and their relationship to space. This leads to clearer communication in performance.
- Self-care and treatment of injuries and prevention of further damage
Dance Mastery is a revolutionary technique made by dancers through dancers for the dance itself, designed to achieve excellence in your performance skills.
He is also a movement artist studying dance from the age of six and having begun his career as a Character Dancer with “Kalinka” Russian Dance Ensemble from the age of twelve with dances of the former Soviet Republics and the Vaganova Classical Ballet system. He then moved on to study other dance forms including Contemporary, Modern, Classical Indian Katak, Flamenco, Latin American and ballroom.
Between the age of 23-27 he had studied classical dance with Misha Slavensky; founder of the Tasmanian Ballet , Dance Master and choreographer; Sasha Alexander and Elaine Michel – Borovansky Ballet School and Valreen Tweedy- Head of the Cechetti Ballet system in Australia. Simultaneously to his dance training he also studied and practiced Tai chi, martial arts, internal arts, various meditation traditions, Tibetan/Indian and Japanese yoga forms as well as various wisdoms traditions since the age of 12years old.
He had collaborated with various dance groups and choreographers both in performance projects and as a teacher of Dance Mastery.
He received a BEd Science from the Institute of Education, Sydney University, Australia where he majored in Biomechanical Analysis of Human Movement and has subsequently developed a number of teaching programmes in the areas of self-development, therapy/healing and the performing arts.