We invite all dance lovers to Lublin for workshops led by Festival Guests.
This year they will be: Mele Broomes, Greta Grinevičiūtė, Martina Hajdyla Lacová, Toula Limnaios with Karolina Kardasz.
SCHEDULE:
8.11 / Saturday
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM – Martina Hajdyla Lacová
9.11 / Sunday
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM – Greta Grinevičiūtė
10.11 / Monday
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM – Mele Broomes
11.11 / Tuesday
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM – Toula Limnaios
COST: PLN 180 / PLN 320 / PLN 400 / PLN 500
Payment details are available here.
WORKSHOP PLACE: Centre for Culture in Lublin (12 Peowiaków street), Rehearsal room no. 4
TEACHERS:
Martina Hajdyla Lacová
Workshop:
In the last couple of years, since becoming a mother-dancer, time for dancing has become a privilege. The premise of the workshop is to acknowledge where we currently are in our lives and to invite us to connect with our experiences through dance. We allow ourselves to be here and now – without judgment or expectations. Spontaneous dance and individual movement expression become sources of knowledge about our own movement and dance archives. Together, we will explore how to acknowledge the time between stimulus and response and how to support our self-agency in choosing from the many options we face every day – including in dance. The wish for the workshop is to create our own “second practice” – a space for attentive, joyful, and authentic being in our bodies.
Martina Hajdyla Lacová – is a Slovak dancer, choreographer, and teacher living in Prague. She graduated from the J.L. Bella Conservatory in Banská Bystrica and completed a master’s degree in dance pedagogy at HAMU in Prague, where she currently pursues a doctoral program. She is an artistic director of the independent dance platform ME-SA. In 2015, she won the Dancer of the Year award for her performance in SuperNaturals, in 2023 the Czech Centers award for her performance in SOFT SPOT, and in 2024 the Thalia Award for her performance in Bodies in Progress. In her work, Martina uses dance as a concept, as a part of communication and interaction, as the spontaneous movement of human bodies.
Greta Grinevičiūtė
This 3 hour workshop led by Greta Grinevičiūtė introduces participants to the evolving relationship between dance and the camera — from its experimental beginnings to the current complexities of choreographic cinema.
The session begins with a brief overview of dance film history, focusing on avant-garde and feminist practices that challenged dominant aesthetics and opened new ways of seeing movement on screen. We will then explore how different cinematic gazes shape the representation of bodies, space, and time, and how the act of filming itself can become a form of dancing.
Through a series of practical tasks, we’ll shift from the analogue gaze — how we look without a camera and how this impacts our movement — to the camera gaze, working with phone cameras as accessible, expressive tools. Participants will experiment with choreographing the gaze, sensing through the lens, and creating short filmed sequences in small groups.
The workshop is grounded in improvisation, embodied awareness, and critical reflection. It invites dancers and movers to explore how gaze, presence, and technology intersect — and how camera work can become an extension of choreographic thinking rather than merely a means of documentation.
No prior filmmaking experience required — just curiosity and a phone with a camera.
Each participant should bring:
- A smartphone capable of filming (with enough storage space)
- (Optional) A tripod, selfie stick, or stabilizer if they have one
- Comfortable clothes for movement.
Greta Grinevičiūtė – is a Lithuanian choreographer, performer, actress, and artistic researcher working across contemporary dance, cinema, and feminist experimental practices. Her work explores the interplay between movement and the gaze — treating the camera not as a tool for capturing dance, but as a collaborator in choreographic thinking.
She is the co-founder of BE COMPANY and one of the artistic collaborators at MMLAB, where she creates interdisciplinary works that span performance, film, voice, and embodied documentation. Her performances have toured internationally, and her artistic research has been presented at platforms such as the Society for Artistic Research Conference (SAR), LANDING Journal & other..
Greta is the recipient of the Best Actress Award at the Lithuanian National Film Awards “Silver Crane” for her leading role in the feature film Slow (dir. Marija Kavtaradzė), which won Best Director at Sundance Film Festival. She has also been nominated for the Golden Stage Cross, Lithuania’s highest recognition in the performing arts.
Currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Greta’s dissertation “The Interplay of Choreography and Cinema: Towards Resonant Artistic Practice” examines choreographic cinema through the lens of haptic visuality, non-normative dramaturgies, and collaborative authorship.
She teaches and leads workshops across Europe, offering embodied approaches to camera work, analogue perception, and dance film. Her ongoing research questions not how to represent movement, but how to co-compose with it — privileging resonance over resolution, attention over control, and presence over spectacle.
Mele Broomes
Participants will hold expansive, compressive, and resting positions for longer durations, encouraging gentleness with their bodies, generating warmth, and cultivating openness. The workshop emphasises restoration and conditioning through a balanced blend of active, passive, strengthening, and restorative movements.
Guided through both standing and seated positions, participants will have the freedom to explore and interpret movements in ways that best support their bodies. You are welcome to lie down, rest, or simply share space at any time. The session will conclude with a short introduction to creating a duet score.
Mele Broomes – is an artist and choreographer, vocally experimenting. Creating and directing contemporary works in collaborating with musicians, performing artists and designers.
Mele is movement director and movement coach for various theatre and visual artists productions such as touring children work Going for Gold: Me and Linford Christie and Shō and the Demons of the Deep, Pasuka – a museum display of film work by Ashanti Harris, Svikiro by Sekai Machache, and Art Night London with Alberta Whittle and collaborators.
Mele artistic work has been presented at venues and festivals such as Battersea Art Centre London, Theatre Centre Canada, Cultura Inglesa Festival Brazil, The Place London, Take Me Somewhere, White Chapel Gallery, Daughter of Cups, Festival del Silenzio Milan, Edinburgh Fringe, Art Night, Dance International Glasgow, Re:Generations, Fest en Fest, CONTACT Manchester, Dundee Rep Theatre.
Mele has previously mentored; Contemporary Performance Practice at the Royal Conservatoire for module collaborations; Dancers Emerging Bursary at Dance Base; Music Space/Counterflow; Project X – Artists’ Voice along with various artists independently directed.
Mele is co-founder-director of Project X Dance (2017-2021), founder and director of Body Remedy, Board member of Take Me Somewhere and Advisory Committee member for Project X.
Toula Limnaios
The workshop of Toula Limnaios is based on her very diverse language movements experienced as interpreter, which she has transformed and developed into a very personal original and authentic movement language as a teacher and choreographer in the past years. “the body as a mediating element, the connection between the earth and the sky.” The bodywork is based on release and alexander technique and a floor work developed for years and a very diverse contemporary movement language. With a focus on relaxation and coordination between breath and the dynamics of movement. The impulse for movement comes from the centre, thesource from which all energies flow. Through the conscious use of muscular relaxation, the body can straighten up without effort and release inner energies, flow and stream so that an economy of movement is created that strengthens a performer’s expression, focuses the quality/dynamics of their movements and intensifies their inner musicality. In the second part, the experience gained there will be translated into improvisations and short choreographic sequences.
The focus is on contemporary dance language, dance as expression, as non-verbal communication and reflection of our epoch, the time we live in, in the now and here…
Toula Limnaios – choreographer/ artistic director was born in athens in 1963. After training in classical and modern dance, m. alexander and laban technique as well as music and dance pedagogy in brussels, she worked as a performer with claudio bernardo, régine chopinot and as an assistant with pierre droulers. She later continued her training at the folkwang hochschule in essen, where she soon became a member of the folkwang tanzstudio. She danced in live improvisations with the musicians konrad bauer and peter kowald. In 1996 she founded the cie. toula limnaios with the composer ralf r. ollertz. They have been running the company together ever since. She has received numerous prizes and awards for her work and is now one of the most renowned choreographers in germany. Tours and guest performances have taken her to Armenia, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lithuania, Latvia, Mexico, Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Austria, Panama, Poland, Trinidad & Tobago, The Russian Federation, Switzerland, Senegal, Slovenia, The West Bank, Venezuela and Cyprus… In addition to directing her ensemble, she also works as a guest choreographer at theater osnabrück, the university of performing arts frankfurt/main and theater münster. In 2007-2008 Toula Limnaios was a guest professor for choreography at The Ernst-Busch-Hochschule. »Toula Limnaios’ art takes place in small brushstrokes. As a choreographer of interpersonal moods she is a painter of the intimate, a poet of innermost feelings, which she knows how to express in a very restrained, judicious way. when with a great gesture she awakens feelings reminiscent of those pina bausch brought into play, she does it with much more restraint, with tenderness and extreme sensitivity. At the same time, she is careful not to offend her audience or even to antagonize them. Her works exude a breath of romance, full of tenderness and depth, with ephemeral and fragile images full of warmth and hope, full of nostalgia. Images which break down the distinctions between dream and reality, in which childhood takes an important place, and the fairy tale world blends closely with just these images. Toula Limnaios expresses nothing that is not an extract from the heart, which is perhaps what constitutes the originality of this artist, a perfectionist of the extremes. Her extremes centre around human beings, about the mysteries of their origin and around the fire of their future. « – Jean-Marie Gourreau, Saison de la Danse.
Karolina Kardasz – (*1994, Bialystok / Poland) graduated at The Academy of Theater Arts at the dance theater department in Kraków. She did internships at Francesca Selva Company and Irene K Company. Since 2018, she was a member of Irene K Company, where she has created several pieces with different choreographers. As a freelance dancer, Karolina created her own short pieces, which were presented at festivals in different countries. She likes to share her approach and way of moving while leading different workshops. Since august 2023 she is a member of the cie. Toula Limnaios.