GAGA DANCERS DE LUX

Gaga classes are predicated on a deep listening to the body and to physical sensations. The instructions are deployed to increase awareness of and further amplify sensation, information is layered, building into a multisensory, physically challenging experience. While many instructions are imbued with rich imagery, the research of Gaga is fundamentally physical, insisting on a specific process of embodiment. Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening the body and adding flexibility, stamina, agility, and skills including coordination and efficiency while stimulating the senses and imagination. 

 

Gaga/dancers deepens dancers’ awareness of physical sensations, expands their palette of available movement options, enhances their ability to modulate their energy and engage their explosive power, and enriches their movement quality with a wide range of textures. The classes employ the specific vocabulary and skills that are part and parcel of a dancer’s knowledge. The layering of familiar skills with Gaga tasks presents dancers with fresh challenges, and throughout the class, teachers prompt the dancers to visit more unfamiliar places and ways of moving as well, unlocking the endlessness of possibilities. Dancers are guided to connect their effort to pleasure and to discover the virtue of silliness.

No pre-registration is required, but it is drop in that applies
The classes are made possible thru a collaboration between Dansalliansen, IlDance and Danscentrum Stockholm.

Lee Brummer is an independent choreographer, international guest teacher and educator based in Sweden who frequently works both across Sweden and internationally. Lee is the Associate Director and co-founder of ilDance, an independent and international contemporary dance company and organisation based in Gothenburg, Sweden. 

Lee studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance where she also completed her BA and teaching degree in 2007. She studied psychology, theatre and pilates alongside her career as a dancer and choreographer. In 2019 Lee became a certified Gaga teacher though the Gaga teachers training programme under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin, Bosmat Nossan, and Saar Harari. As a dancer Lee worked with the Bat Dor Dance Company (Israel), The Emanuel Gat Dance Company (Israel) and with various independent choreographers across Europe. She has worked as choreographer’s assistant in a variety of dance productions and musicals in Sweden and abroad.

Over the years Brummer has been teaching and working with companies such as: DV8, Australian Dance Theatre, Sydney Dance Company, National Dance Company Wales and Norrdans to name a few. She has been guest teaching at open professional classes, schools and universities worldwide and has been choreographing her own work within different international structures since 2010.

Smadar Goshen is a freelance dancer and choreographer based in Stuttgart.

She graduated her B.A Dance & Choreography and her Masters’ Choreography in the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance.

Since 2011, she has been creating and performing professionally in various platforms worldwide. 

In 2019 She studied the ‘Gaga movement language’ under the artistic direction of Bosmat Nosan, Saar Harari and Ohad Naharin, choreographer of Bat-Sheva dance company. As a certified Gaga teacher, she has been teaching independently and for Dance companies around Germany, Switzerland and Austria. 

Smadar is also a certified Gyrokinesis and Gyrotonic teacher and pre-trainer (teacher’s trainer). She has been working with the Gyrotonic movement method since 14 years.

During 2020 she created and premiered her full evening duet ‘Peninsula Flora’ in Stuttgart. 

In 2021 she crated two full evening pieces – ‘Hoomans’, premiered in WKV Stuttgart last July and ‘Rocking Women like Rock’, premiered in TheaterHaus Stuttgart last September, as well as a solo piece which participated in the 'Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater’ Festival Stuttgart.

In addition, in 2021, she was invited to create a solo for ‘The dying swans project’ for Gauthier Dance company and a quartet for 'ChoreoLab-Made in Ulm' by 'Tanz Labor Ulm’. 

 

Emma Rozgoni is a dancer and educator based in Stockholm. She holds her BA degree in dance from the Oslo National Academy of Arts. 

Working as a freelancer in the field of dance and movement, Emma has been teaching in Sweden as well as internationally for companies, educations, festivals and open workshops.

After years of researching Gaga, the movement language created by Ohad Naharin, under the umbrella of Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, Emma became a certified teacher in 2012. 

Emma's teaching resume includes GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Royal Swedish Ballet, Cullbergbaletten, Carte Blanche Dance Company, Skånes Dance Theatre, Iceland University of the Arts, Dans- and Teateralliansen among others. 

Emma is also initiator and co-manager of ‘Metamorphosis- Improvisation and Movement Research Festival.’ in Ytterjärna, Sweden. 

 

Anoushka Jago began her training at Trinity Laban and Northern School of Contemporary Dance. She later traveled to Israel to train under KCDC and then to Italy for NOD before going on to perform work by choreographers such as Jasmin Vardimon, Botis Seva and Karole Armiatage. She has featured in the BBC Young Dancer Awards and collaborates frequently with emerging choreographers. Anoushka graduated from the Gaga teacher training programme in Tel Aviv in 2020 under the artistic direction of Bosmat Nossan, Saar Harari and Ohad Naharin, and has been teaching in the UK ever since.

 

Photo credit: Ascaf