Art stations fundation - by Grażyna Kulczyk


Alternative Dance Academy 2009

Alternative Dance Academy is a multi-level educational and artistic project supported by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. It's addressed at talented youth (audiences) and young professional contemporary dancers.

Our priority is to give young people a chance to receive dance education and guidance from world’s leading choreographers and pedagogues. Our ambition is to create a regular and consistent educational program, adjusted to different levels of advancement, and to develop a model of education which would correspond, as best as possible, to the nature (and the needs) of contemporary dance – one of the most democratic and egalitarian of contemporary stage arts. We aim for a model of education that would emphasise not only the technical abilities but also (or, perhaps, most importantly) the personality and creativity of our adepts – the features which need to be taken care of right from the beginning of formal instruction and should be treated as equally important as the matters of physical excellence.

Alternative Dance Academy is a series of 6 meetings planned for the period between April 2009 and March 2010. It will consist of: weekend classes for audiences – non-professional dancers at various levels of advancement (master class) / an intensive 5-day coaching project for professional dancers / open after-shows closing each coaching project and meetings with artists.