Eszter Gál dance educator, dance artist, creator, currently teaching at the University of Theatre and Film Arts and leading the movement skills and abilities development at the university for the fifth year. She is the founder of the ArtMan Movement Therapy Arts Association and a member and one of the leaders of the Tánceánia Ensemble. She is a certified Skinner Releasing Technique teacher, Spinal Yoga instructor and Fascial Yoga therapist. She has been teaching relaxation and body awareness techniques, experiential anatomy, improvisation, contact improvisation and composition for nearly 25 years. Since 1998, she has been a regular guest teacher at Master Courses, Institutes and International Festivals abroad. As an invited teacher, he has been a training leader for national ensembles (Forte Társulat, KET) and since 2017 he has been a teacher at IDW (International Dance Week). Since 2004 she has been one of the organisers of the Kontakt Budapest Workshop programme, leading regular weekly classes, Kontakt jams and weekend courses.
He has been creating his own pieces since 1993 and regularly performs in groups and solo improvisations at home and abroad. His most recent work is Vetületek, a piece with the Tánceánia Ensemble, performed at Trafo. In the last two years, she has worked as a dance artist in Zoltán Nagy's Point of No Return and Patrik Kelemen's Plateau and participated in the MetaSurge Lab group creative research led by Tamás Bakó and Partik Kelemen in January 2020.
Between 2002 and 2015 he was the artistic director of the Kontakt Budapest International Improv Festival, which was held 14 times, and from 2000 to 2015 he was one of the leading organizers of the European Conference of Kontakt Improv teachers - ECITE. He has been involved in several international collaborations and projects (PORCH / Ponderosa Tanzland - Stolzenhagen, IDOCDE, LEAP, REFLEX Europe). www.idocde.net ) and from 2013 to 2019 he was the Project's lead coordinator and researcher.
Between 2008 and 2014 she was an artistic advisor for the Research of the Unknown programme (Workshop Foundation). Facilitator of international teachers' meetings (Freiburg Kontakt Festival 2015 and 2017, ECITE 2000, 2003, 2016, Poznan dance artist and performer programme leader and coach 2017, IDOCDE 2015, 2017) and mentor in the Imre Zoltán Programme in the creative work of Eszter Flóra Sarlós, Dorottya Ujszászi and Patrik Kelemen.
She is one of the leaders and teachers of the 200-hour Contact Improvisation Teacher Training programme, which started in 2018, alongside Tamás Bakó and Péter Lipka.
She started her PhD studies in September 2019 at the Doctoral School of Theatre and Film Arts, her research topic is the impact, role and application of contact improvisation and body awareness work in performing arts and performing arts movement and dance education.
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