“spacing” – Contact improvisation and Contemporary Dance Camp

Our facilitators and mentors

TÍMEA (Timi) GYÖRKE (hu), dancer, teacher, movement- and dance therapist

She earned her degree in gymnastics training, physical education and physical therapy at the Hungarian University of Physical Education in 1994. During this time, she met modern and contemporary dances and Contact Improvisation. Since 2004 she has been teaching these dance forms for kids-parents (Family Contact – www.kontakttanchaz.wordpress.com), for teens in secondary school and for adults in university.
She was a member of the organizers and teachers’ team of the Hungarian CI Festivals, ECITE and CI events. She travels a lot to teach and to study as well. She collected her experiences as a teacher from Freiburg (CI Fest.), Gottingen (Contact meet Contemporary), Cluj-Napoca (Transcontact Fest.), Budapest (Contact Budapest Fest.), Marburg, Copenhagen…
As the member of Workshop Company and Group Tetra Ether she investigates improvisation and the connection between movement – music- visual arts, organizing Impro Jams, site specific and crossroads performances. www.tetraeter.wordpress.com
With the land artist, Sabine Fazekas she led several workshops in the nature.
From 2021 she became the member of L1 Independent Artists in Public Utility. It is mission to secure professional support for independent Hungarian artists in performing and creative arts.
She is interested in – not just the physical motion, but the soul – the „psyche” of the movement. This was the reason she started her studies in Psychodynamic movement- and dance therapy.

Dance classes:
– will based on modern and contemporary dance techniques
– we use easy acrobatics, CI skills and improvisation as well
– at the end we create small combinations and compositions
Outdoor work:
– we use “land art”, free motion, CI, the nature and each other
– we create bridge between nature and interactive body interventions
– we develop our listening, the awareness; create special connection with ourselves and with the nature around
– reading the landscape and opening our perceptions help us to reconnect to the state of the early age’s global perception (synaesthesia)
The aim is to find the cohesion of the group by creating strong interactions in the nature. Therefore, improvisation and freedom in motion will be encouraged and lead to install a particular communication between us.
This combination is due to reinforce our connection to the nature and integrate deeply the inner and outer experience of being a part of Nature.

VIKTÓRIA (Viki) VARGA (hu), dancer, contemporary dance teacher

Viktória was born on August 19, 1968, in Budapest, Hungary, is a dancer and contemporary dance teacher with extensive training and experience. Her dance education began at Kreativ Movement Studio (1986-1990), followed by studies at Budapest Dance School (1990-1992) and further training at Essen Folkwang Schule in Germany (1992/93). She later completed her BA (2005-2009) and MA (2010-2012) at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy.
Varga has participated in workshops such as ImPuls Tanz in Vienna, where she studied contemporary technique under Ted Stoffer, among others. Her involvement in collective dance works includes collaborations with choreographers like Tamás Bakó and Adrienn Hód on productions such as “Code of Line,” “Nest,” and “Concrete Lotus.” She also contributed to projects like “Surface Connection” with LajkaLAB and the 2019 performance “Nibiru,” which involved children.
In her teaching career, Varga has worked at the Budapest Basic Art School, focusing on creative children’s dance, and at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy. Since 2014, she has been teaching at the Dózsa György Secondary School in Budapest in the professional dance department. Her work has been supported by various scholarship programs, including the Jardin d’ Europe program, Life Long Burning, and the Erasmus+ program, which have involved international exchanges and workshops.

Dance classes:
Her contemporary technique is a mixture of Limon technique, release technique and floor work.
General structure of classes:
– Different kinds of warm up; which can be slow internal personally focused, or intensive physical training.
-games to develop self-awareness; individually or in groups.
-sequences on basic floor works, no prior experience needed.
-expending on previous exercises through guided visual instruction.
-creating basic choreography using improvisational exercises together with music.
-performing the choreography to each other.
-discussing and sharing personal thoughts and feelings about the class.