At the Interchange Studios close to the  Belsize Park Tube station, London, from October 29th to November 27th 2010, there will be an exciting series of inclusive movement workshops presented as part of the ongoing Hilde Holger Centenary project. The workshops will cater to young adolescents, seniors, professionals, disabled,--all! There will be a workshop for everyone, ending in a discussion forum to consolidate the series  and to trace the links back to Hilde Holger. All six workshop leaders were her students, and have since become known for their own work on many continents.

MoveABOUT:     Transformation Through Movement    
A series of practical creative workshops given by students of Hilde Holger (1905-2001)

At the end of October as part of Hilde Holger’s Centenary Project, six of her dance students
will teach two inclusive weekend workshops, each targeting the various aspects of her legacy.
Teachers and therapeutic professionals are also invited to participate or watch any of the workshops.
The series, supported by Camden City Council, takes place at the InterChange Studios, and
culminates in a Forum Discussion entitled ‘The lost link Hilde Holger.’

Hilde Holger (1905–2001), was an avantgarde expressionist Viennese dancer who
quickly made waves in the Secession and Hagenbund, as well as across Europe dancing
in Gertrud Bodenwieser’s company and her own. Teaching fascinated her unusually
early, at the height of her solo career. Forced into exile in 1939, she lived in India, finally
resettling ten years later in England. With her ever broadening life experiences, she
broke yet another boundary when, due to her son having severe learning disabilities, she
pioneered Inclusivity, with similar boys and a professional dancer at Sadlers Wells in 1967/8.


Venue & Info:
The InterChange Studios, Hampstead Town Hall Centre,
213 Haverstock Hill,
London NW3 4QP [  nearest tube station is Belsize Park]

www.interchange.org.uk  
www.acflondon.org    
www.hildeholger.com
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Workshop Schedule

PAYMENT

Checks payable to:   Hilde Holger Co.
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27 Oval Road
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES:

Royston Maldoom OBE

Founder Director of Dance United, Royston Maldoom studied with Hilde Holger in the nineteen sixties.  Maldoom’s creative work, inspired by Holger's belief that all people should be given the opportunity to express themselves, has since taken him to a range of diverse and marginalized communities throughout the globe. Maldoom is recognized internationally for his inspirational creative work with struggling communities such as in Northern Ireland, South Africa, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. In Lima over the last 30 years, he is also renowned for his work with the San Marcos Ballet and the National Ballet. Holger's ideals, formed by the era of the 1960's, of transcending barriers of language, race and gender, with the po-tential to bridge the gap of differing economic, social, religious and cultural backgrounds, is mirrored in Maldoom's own belief that, through dance it is possible for people to connect both to their inner selves and to others. Film documentaries such as Rhythm is It! and Overture 2012: Power and Passion, show Royston Maldoom working with over two hundred untrained teenagers for dance performances with the Berlin Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra. One sees a tremendous increase in these young peoples’ confidence, focus and motivation as these large-scale events unfold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royston_Maldoom
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-717137015521779972&ei=UDNwS-K3M9bB-Abbh_nVBg&q=royston+Maldoom&client=safari#
http://www.royston-maldoom.com/start/intro


Wolfgang Stange

Artistic Director of the AMICI Dance Theatre Company,Wolfgang Stange first became Holger's student in 1969.  AMICI is the first integrated disabled dance theatre company in the UK. Since the establishment of the Amici, Stange has also developed a similar dance company in Japan, and in Sri Lanka he has a company comprising mainly of amputees, which he has brought to the Lyric, Hammersmith, London, to perform.  Over several decades, inces-santly teaching workshops around the world, and in keeping with Holger’s beliefs, Stange has staunchly upheld his pioneering vision that disabled or not, everyone must be granted the opportunity to share and acknowledge each other. In 1996 at the Riverside Theatre, Wolfgang Stange created and staged Hilde, a full length dance work performed by the AMICI, and dedicated to the life and work of his mentor, and teacher Hilde Holger. Two years later, the AMICI performed this again at the Odeon Theatre in Vienna. ---The ballet master of the Opera Ballet there, inspired by these performances, later successfully produced on the stage of the Viennese State Opera House, performers having similar learning disabilities.

http://www.londondance.com/content.asp?CategoryID=914
http://www.amicidance.org/


Carl Campbell ACP Soc.

Carl Campbell, Jamaican born, from the District of Epsom, began his career as an actor and dancer in the West End, in productions such as the musical “Hair”, “Black Mikado”, “Jesus Christ Superstar”, “West Side Story”, “Joseph” and plays such as “The Emperor Jones”. As a dancer, Carl has worked with members of the Royal Ballet, Festival Ballet, Central School of Ballet, London Contemporary Dance School, and the Laban Centre. Disillusioned with the lack of opportunities for black dancers and actors he formed the Carl Campbell Dance Company 7 in 1978. The Company’s work and profile led to recognition of the only contemporary Caribbean Dance Theatre company in the UK. CCDC7 works with children, adults and young people. He also formed the Recycled Teenagers, an older peo-ple’s dance program both in the UK and Jamaica. Having studied with Holger in the sixties, in Carl’s work, one can recognize the roots formed by the Central European Expressionist dance as well as various other cross-cultural in-fluences. Carl’s first performance with Hilde was a joint choreographic work entitled “Towards the Light”, with young people with disabilities, and was staged at Sadlers Wells Theatre, London.

http://www.ccdc7.co.uk/carl-CV-ccdc7.htm


Thomas Kampe

Thomas Kampe studied and performed with Hilde Holger from the 1980’s until her death in 2001. Kampe is an ex-pert on the Central European Tradition within dance, both in terms of choreographic artistry, and in the historical developments of movement/awareness body techniques. Kampe has regularly taught at various universities includ-ing University of Chichester, London Metropolitan University, Limerick University in Ireland, Central School of Dance and Drama, and has put on countless performances internationally. Kampe’s most monumental work to date is a site-specific choreography with a cast of 150 performers staged in St. Pauli Stadium in Hamburg, Germany, in 2003.

http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/hal/staff/thomas-kampe.cfm  
http://contactimprovisation.co.uk/teacher_6.htm    
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thefacility/researchers/kampe.cfm


Jacqueline Waltz

Jacqueline Waltz is a registered Dance Movement Therapist.  She promotes the use of creative expressive dance movement therapy with older adults and those with special needs, using the Holger Method, which she has been organizing into a codified teaching system since Holger’s death. Waltz has also danced with the Isadora Duncan Heritage Group in New York and was a founding member of Tanz Theatre Wien, Vienna Austria 1981 -1983.

http://www.movementforlife.vpweb.co.uk

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