Teachers

Abhilash Ningappa, Founder and Artistic Director of Play Practice Artists Residency (INDIA), born and based in India. Recognised as a performer, choreographer and teacher both nationally and internationally. He post graduated in SEAD (Salzburg) and with Post Masters in APASS (Advanced performance and scenography studies) (Belgium). A yoga practitioner and a martial art teacher, trained in KalariPayattu and contemporary dance.

His workshop is focused on Improvisation based on Martial arts principles. He invented a method and practices where dancers make choices and explore the possibilities through composition – recovering and revisiting movements through creative choices and creating possibilities to create a performance. There is a warmup session which leads into various movement practices influenced by martial arts and contemporary dance – leading towards improvisation practice.
 

​
 

Prashant More is an interdisciplinary artist based in India. He engages largely in the field of dance/movement as a performer, teacher and choreographer. He studied in India and Europe. In 2012, he graduated from Attakkalari, India and worked as a Repertoire (company) Dancer. And in 2016, did intensive training in choreography and ‘Physical Experimental Performances’ in Amsterdam and Berlin. As an educator, he teaches with all age groups. His research module is called ‘Breaking Points’ in which, the approach is to find an authentic movement flow and transformation of dance vocabulary.

Breaking Points –
This movement practice offers a dancer/mover to critically develop a skill-set and body intelligence by actively deconstructing the current movement vocabulary, in order to create a risk-based space for exploration. Primarily the module deals in transformation of movement, by enhancing one’s relationship with the floor and the space in building up deep dance vocabulary.

​

 

Sarah Elsworth is a contemporary dance artist, choreographer and movement teacher from Ōtautahi, New Zealand. She graduated from UNITEC, Auckland with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts, Major Contemporary Dance in 2012. She has since performed in many independent dance works, presented at multiple arts festivals throughout New Zealand and created her own choreographic works. She was awarded the Eileen May Norris Dance Scholarship in 2014, enabling her to train throughout Europe.

Collective Effervescence –
A performance and choreographic workshop exploring how we can embody ‘collective thought and action’ in our dancing body. We will test out ideas around creating & performing collectively, as well as address our individual artistic voice and how this might interact, be received, dissolved & supported by the notion of group. We will explore performance games and research improvisational scores with rules to create choreographic action that excites us and expands our creative potential.

 

Shagun Singh is the founder of Geeli Mitti and has been driving innovation by making ecological architecture and innovative sustainability products available to all.
An MBA Finance, she comes with over a decade long corporate management experience, while being a certified Train The Trainer for Permaculture and several natural farming techniques including bio-dynamic farming, zero budget farming, vedic farming, mushroom cultivation, multi-layer cropping, climate-controlled farming and food processing.
She is widely regarded as a self-taught leading authority on natural architecture and been recognised by Vogue as one of the 12 leading women in India for environment conservation.

Learning with Shagun is a unique experience that is a beautiful combination of theory, demo, practice, fun, dance, stories et al. Her focus is on clearing the very roots so there is no memorisation or notes needed.