At the workshops, you will be able to study the basics of circus skills through juggling, acrobatics, balance, movement and manipulation of objects by exercises with and without equipment, with special emphasis on our own body and its capabilities.
Workshops will be held on Saturdays and Sundays in the period from 11-14h.
We present the following disciplines:
14-15.00.2. Stilt
21-22.02. Acrobalans
28.02.-01.03. Juggling
07-08.03. Poi
Probationary workshop:
Sunday 08.02. from 11-14h
Participants may register for each workshop separately at a cost of 1500 dinars, or combined for all four for the price of 4000 dinars.
Skills and equipment:
• Poi is a juggling prop dance that originates from New Zealand, where men used to develop coordination skills and women used to develop the grace of movement. It is essentially a weight on a rope that in many ways revolves around the body. Experienced artists can draw with poi patterns of various shapes. Poi helps you to open your mind, you match the left and right side of the body and make sense of movement in the space around them. It is also a very entertaining form of recreation, which will raise the level of physical fitness, especially in the arms and shoulders. The workshop is intended for those with and without juggling experience. We invite all interested parties to bring a pair of cotton stockings, so you can make your first poi.
• Stilts are circus props for walking, better known as extensions for legs. Maintaining balance and walking on stilts, helps to balance and control your body.
• Acrobalance technique is supporting two or more people who together form a certain figure. Usually, there is a couple who make the base and a flyer. This technique helps a lot with teamwork and the revival of the balance of its own and your partner's body.
• Juggling or manipulation of objects, can be used as a recreation and as a tool in modern theater and circus performances. In addition to being attractive, and relaxing, developing concentration and coordination of the entire body. Juggle can be balls, pins, rings, scarves... but also objects of daily use.
