Baroque stage and dance workshop for performers, musicians and dancers with Tanja Skok.

"The dance and music must so nicely meet
Each note must seem an echo to your feet ”

The Art of Dancing by Soame Jenyns (1729)

This practical workshop of 3 hours of stage work will offer an introduction to the codes present in the movement, gestures and dances of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, commonly known as baroque dance.

The specific vocabulary of dance is directly related to the court of Louis XIV of France. The king himself was an excellent dancer, and it goes without saying that dance, as an artistic form, played an immensely important role in his court, and was closely connected with music, theater, opera, and etiquette. general of the court.

Today, learning the basic forms of baroque dance offers us a window into the historical stage practice, which can be used as a reconstruction of the first forms of theater, dance or music, and also as an exciting source for to a new creative inspiration.

Contents

The work will focus on general body posture, basic steps, the use of arms, spatial orientation and the relationship with music.

Topics we will open:
- Body posture
- Learn some basic steps
- Introduction to the notation Feuillet de la dansa
- Recognize the close relationship between music and movement
- Use of arms for the formal situation of dance and theatrical gesture
- Find new ways of physical expression

English course with simultaneous translation.

Images from the workshop in Aeolian

Tanja Skok

Tanja Skok is a dancer, choreographer, teacher and researcher in the field of historical dance. She studied at the London Contemporary Dance School in the United Kingdom. He later continued his specialization with renowned international artists and researchers in the field of historical dance.
During her artistic career and as a choreographer and / or dancer, she has participated in various international productions in both contemporary and historical language.
Highlights include the production of Johann Christian Bach's Amadis de Gaulle, the production of the Opéra Comique and the Opéra Royal de Versailles, and the regular collaboration with the ensemble Laberintos Ingeniosos. He also collaborates with the Ensemble Musica Cubicularis of Slovenia and Ars Musicae-Orquestra Barroca (Mallorca).
She is the co-founder of ARTS Alchemy, which together with the Vespres d'Arnadí Baroque Orchestra has presented one of her works at the Peralada Festival (Girona)
Notable is the regular collaboration with Andrew Lawrence King and Studio Opera Omnia in Moscow, as a movement consultant, pedagogue and choreographer where she has participated in the staging of the operas King Arthur by H. Purcell and St. Alessio by Stefano Landi .
He has been assistant artistic director for 8 years at En-Knap, a leading dance company on the Slovenian contemporary scene. He has taught contemporary and historical dance in numerous courses and institutions such as the Master of Guitar of the University of Alicante, Amherst Early Music Festival in the USA, Locopolitan Music Festival in Slovenia, and the European program EEEmerging of the Baroque Music Festival of Ambronay, France.
Tanja Skok is a teacher of movement composition, contemporary dance technique and improvisation at the Alma Mater dance academy in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Since 2022 she has been a teacher of Baroque Dance at the Luthier-Dansa School (Barcelona).

More information a www.tanjaskokdance.com

Tanja Skok and Barbara Kanc, dance & Janez Jocif, flute and drum.

Bach E-Motion. Tanja Skok, dance & Xavier Díaz-Latorre, lute.