Ballet Academy University of Arts Munich "Cinderella" is a joint creation by Kirill Melnikov and Mark Pogolski, which premiered in 2008. It features neoclassic choreography accompanied by neo-romantic music (main theme: Pjotr Tschaikowski's "Russian Dance"). The selected except from the work encompasses a "Pas de deux" depicting the first encounter of Cinderella and the prince. An entrancing moment of "love at first sight" that stops time for the two young lovers…

Choreography Kirill Melnikov

Music Mark Pagolski

Dancers Violetta Keller, Stanislaw Wegrzyn

Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy Contemporary dance performance “Status” reflects inner worlds of four persons, based on their rivalry. Personas with differents characteristics are competing between themselves but also depend on each other. Unavoidable clashes of different characters makes them to balance between neccessity to collaborate and unwillingness to adapt. Pure dance perfomance “Status” analyzes particularities of competition between professionals of the same field. Performance discusses if in rivalry there is a line which should not be crossed.

Idea / Choreography Viktorija Bobinaitė

Music Monika Sokaitė

Script Živilė Zablackaitė

Dance Sigita Juraškaitė, Judita Šečkutė, Monika Voišnytė, Vaiva Paukštytė.

Duration 30mins.

Diploma performance supervisor assoc. prof. Aira Naginevičiūtė - Adomaitienė

Austria THR3E The dance piece THR3E is based on the term " Connection". The connection, which appears between two beings... a man and a woman, a man and man, a mother and a child, you and a random person who is sitting in the bus next to you.... As long as it comes from both sides it can exist. But what is it that brings two people closer? Sometime one needs to go over the limits and habits, to find a connection, which is based on common understanding and where compromises are made. Many times we perceive strong connections but often we even cannot name them. But we feel that they exists! It is all about the two. The two are feeling the same vibes. The duo is about trust and doubt at the same time, about holding and resisting, listening and ignoring, it is a constant meditation.... two bodies are going through the space, with the flow and letting the gravity do its work.

Choreography Enyer Ruiz

Dancers Enyer Ruiz & Jerca Rožnik Novak

Length 10- 15min

Photo credit Paul Schütz

Latvian academy of culture The essential content of performance is students' raised immediate reality, while in the learning process, thus creating a conditional subculture and at the same time - creating abstractions to the system, which themselves are putting the rules. These rules often can be broken. They may nominate the leader, the killer, who puts themselves and their behaviour under its consequences. Intimacy, sexuality and bestiality, which is hidden in every Human being behind social masks, but just breaks . But they sometimes deliberate or fall down naturally. We are becoming the viewers in the game, which rules we have set by ourselves.

Choreographer Jānis Putniņš and Eva Kronberga

Choreographer Michelle Mann

"Getting to a Better Place" is a devised dance performance created in response to a collection of poems that capture the essence of conversations with parents of children with disability and additional needs. The work is the result of a collaborative project between academics from Health and Performing Arts at Edge Hill University, and aims to generate insight into and dialogue about lives punctuated by illness and disability. The piece was first performed at Tate Liverpool in February 2017 as part of Concurrent #3. Choreography: Michelle Man in collaboration with the dancers Dancers: Rachel Hancock, Tim Merrifield, Katie Threlfall

SHOCK ACADEMIA TALKS “Where my body once was, there will be a dance that embodies the cycle of life and death, but there will be no me” We present you another guest in "SHOCK ACADEMIA TALKS" conference: Flavia Ghisalberti (Switzerland) is a multi-disciplinary artist, director and choreographer of Italian and Swiss descent. She had periodic exhibitions and created poetry sound performances with self made instruments from 1994-1996. Since 1998 she has worked intensively with Butoh dance. Flavia’s art explores the limits of the body and the mind and what they are willing to endure. Her butoh style is primarily independent of a particular butoh school or master. She co-founded the Butoh group In Between in 2003 and founded the international project Limits in 2008. She is director of the bi-annual festival Butoh-Off since 2010 which is now a trinational project with Freiburg (Germany) and Strasbourg (France). She performs and teaches throughout Europe, Russia and the United States.

More about Flavia: http://www.inbetweenbutoh.com http://www.ghisalbertiflavia.wordpress.com https://fleuvie.wordpress.com/about/

SHOCK ACADEMIA TALKS working under the label CHRISTINE GAIGG / 2nd nature Christine Gaigg has been realising choreographic concepts and performances for years, both domestically and abroad, frequently collaborating with composers of ‚new music‘, such as Max Nagl, Bernhard Lang (TRIKE-Series 2004-2012, ‚Loop-Grammatik‘, movement and sound), Bernhard Gander or Klaus Schedl. For the past years she has been focussing on developing ‚stage-essays‘, following a documentary approach. Examples of such works are: DeSacre! Pussy Riot meets Vaslav Nijinsky (2013) [Tanzquartier Wien/Vienna; Josephskapelle/Joseph chapel]; Maybe the way you made love twenty years ago is the answer? (2014) [Festival steirischer herbst; Tanzquartier Wien/Vienna]; untitled (look, look, come closer) (2015), which deals with portrayals of war in media [ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna]; and Clash (2016), which deals with the nightclub massacre of Orlando of 2016 [Tanzquartier Wien/Vienna] Beside her artistic work she also teaches at the Institute for Theatre, Film, and Media Studies at the University of Vienna.

More about Christine www.2ndnature.at

SHOCK ACADEMIA TALKS Discussion moderator and speaker.

Gilija Žukauskienė Dancer, choreographer, educator and the art director in NGO „Portico for Dialogues.“ She is interested in the relationship of dance, philosophy and social activism. She has MA in Theatre and Philosophy and researches the role of dance and other socio–cultural practices in the transformation in society.

SHOCK ACADEMIA TALKS Joined by Lithuanian Contemporary Dance Association members

Moderator: Gilija Žukauskienė.

Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance The body has a history. The stone has a history of ages. I am searching for my own history in the stone. I leave myself in the stone. I feel the being of the stone and I understand that there is no begging neither the end. history-body-stone s(ain)t.0ne

Choreographer and dancer Goda Žukauskaitė (Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance, Modern Theatre Dance department)

Talinn University There are men and there are women. Performance "Kiisu all, AH!" examines what happens when men are too addicted to women. The story will be performed by three male dancers; Each one of them having a different personality which makes them experience the addiction differently.

Inspired by Charles Bukowski's novel 'Women'.

Choreographer: Chor. Kristin Tagam

Dancers: Siim Praats, Allar Valge, Karl-Gustav Kasemaa

Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, Beyonce, Licantropus, Tiggs Da Author

Concept, choreography and direction: Anna Mikuła, Dariusz Nowak

Performance: Anna Mikuła, Dariusz Nowak, Kamil Pilarski

Duration: 30 minutes

Music: Alva Noto-Flashforward, Arvo Part- My heart is in the highlands, Kapela ze wsi Warszawa- Kołysanka Konopna, Zoe Keating- Exurgency

Fragment of the journey- full of fog, ripples, sounds and ambiguity. Two people attached in an non-obvious way, or one person in his many visages. An agreement between male and female energy, or two different worlds in a collective mind.

„Farewell to the mountains, high-cover'd with snow, Farewell to the straths and green vallies below” (Arvo Part- My heart is in the highlands)

What happens, if we add another human to the existing combination of two? The same human as we meet in everyday feeling,exprecience, in the shop or on the street. A person as he is. “Three days of snow” invites the spectator to imagined, ambiguous world. Followed story of a fairy couple- or maybe just one person mirroring himself- transforms into trio. Text about the theme of “form” adds another layer for the perception of the audience, who can kinesthetically fell the intertwining realities to which characters adjust with the movement and presence. The piece was presented during festivals in Poland and in Italy, always perceived as rhythmically varied, condensed, addictive and poetic. The piece was created during artistic residency in Stalker Teatro- officine CAOS in Torino (Italy) in 2016, as a laureate of 'Artists in residence' programme.

It is based on the duo created by Anna Mikuła and Dariusz Nowak, with which they won two money awards in 3…2…1 DANCE competition organized by Cracow Choreographic Centre in 2015, granted by Eryk Makohon and Joanna Leśnierowska and jury prize from Ryszard Kalinowski, Zofia Rudnicka and Witold Jurewicz during open stage International Dance Theatres Festival and sense of move choreographic competition in Mościce Arts Centre in Poland. The piece was performed during: SzólóDuó Nemzetközi Tánc Fesztivál 2015 in Budapest (Hungary), 20 International Meetings of Dance Theatres in Lublin (Poland), SPACER festival in Nowohuckie Cultural Centre in Cracow (Poland), Scena Tańca Współczesnego „SPACE” festival in Toruń (Poland), Open Stage project during the Nationwide Contemporary Dance Workshops „Na bosaka” in Połczyn-Zdrój (Poland), Open Stage project.