Derida Dance Center / Art link Foundation

Mr. Atanas Maev

admin@derida-dance.com

　　Hi, everyone. I'm very happy to share. In 2018, we had a chance to present a short piece of dance in Beijing. It was the time when we met with new faces, partners. Nowadays by being part of the Union, I'm happy to come here with already prepared knowledge for mostly of the members, especially from our region, like Miroslava told. So we're collaborating in different events, networks trying to build the dance world together because separately and closed, we are not going to be able to sustain and to show how universal is the language of the dance. Speaking about the Derita Center, I will speak about one model independent from our government and municipality. It is a model that exists and the logic of the wish of all the people. I am one of the founders to design the model that contained education, production process, and also a presentation. From 2010 till today, we developed a special occasional program. That is not part of the university program, but is working a lot more, which the abilities that already will recognize in a dancer that bring them from different arts, from theatre, from a classical ballet, from a street dance, from macrobiotic. We have prepared maybe bigger parts from the active dancers right now. I don't want to sound eco-centric, but the program has really shown a very good results in the last years. And I’m very happy to see that very active choreographers now in Bulgaria, the new face of Bulgarian dance pass through this educational program.

　　After the meeting in 2018, we had the chance to welcome Mr. Guan Xin. That is one of the junior of this Union, like a new culture at a shake of china in Bulgaria. This might be possible to have almost daily communication with him. A bit later, we welcomed also a Chinese company with the performance live, then. So that was shown in the National Palace of Culture in Bulgaria. This was also a very nice bridge to maintain this energy and to continue speaking about possible collaborations. This year, we're preparing another collaboration that is not part of the dance, but it's with a big social impact. With the Chinese embassy, it's a summer camp for children that involves the music talents from China. I hope that the next years we can speak about possible organization of summer camp for dance in Bulgaria. Because normally we make these locally, but if we have to speak about future and already investment that are done in this direction, we can think about how to connect our already created infrastructure with the projects that are already designed. About the facilities that we maintain any possibilities that we can offer in these collaborations.

　　So we are happy to share that in 2019, we know greater the new dance stage in Sofia. It's called during the stage that is a black box theatre and with different functionalities inside. That can be a very beautiful venue for hosting common-scale performances. I will share in the charts link just to go into make a future walk inside. So you can get familiar with this. It is in the heart of Sofia. Another partnership that we are connected with are together with Miroslava, for example. The dance center is part of European dance house network as well. With the united states, we are part of global practice sharing from the very beginning of the existing of the funds.

　　Now I’m very happy that we have this very strong Link with China and to show that the dance, it's a lot more than politics. So the art is, the first that get together and can stay together, no matter what the political situation in the world. So we can show that the meetings like today's can be a real step to speak how the arts can connect people and still more and the universal language of the dance.

　　Thank you very much. And I hope that these brainstormings are going to bring us in the next level.

 

Northeast Normal University, China

Mr. Sun Huijia

4602525@qq.com

　　Hello, everyone. I'm Sun Huijia from northeast normal university. This my great honor to introduce my university and dance department. Northeast Normal University is a comprehensive university for higher learning. That is under direct administration of the Ministry of Education of China, located in Changchun, Northeast China. Founded in 1946 as the first comprehensive university in northeast China and in 1996, NENU was selected as a member of the 211 project, even full support by the government in development and construction. Second, about dance department. Dance Department was found in 2000, began recruiting master students in 2007, offered doctoral degree from 2011. We established post doctoral R&D stations in 2019. Choreography major was selected as one or first class major in china in the same year. We focus on creation of regional works and have many awards in top dense competitions in China. The department strives to deeply understanding of history and play, pay close attention to reality, constantly realizes new breakthroughs and self transcendence in terms of subject matter selection, content refinement, and forming a unique creative style.

　　Third, I want to introduce about our m fa program. We offer master of fine arts degree in choreography. It's a professional degree. We can offer first class choreography lessons and many practicing opportunities. Here are some pictures of MFA students dance works. Sorry, I couldn't share my screen. We can't see the pictures. If you need for the information, you can try to visit our website, or connect the phone number 86043184536265. Thank you for your listening.

 

Nanjing University of the Arts, China

Mr. Guo Luole

31346678@qq.com

1) Introduce the project to be promoted in 2022 and the exhibition of original works with the theme of Jiangsu regional culture. The combination of online performance and live streaming will be adopted in the party.

2) Introduce its excellent works, and excavate and sort out Jiangsu regional culture

3) Features of the party: presentation of new thinking, new themes and new art forms.

 

Dance Fest & Skopje Dance Theater University of Goce Delchev, N. Macedonia

Risima Risimkin

risimarisimkin@gmail.com

　　It is great to see so many universities around. And maybe we can share some programming in the future. So as I said before, we have a festival program in which framework we can present different kinds of performances. And also we have a dance contemporary dance company that some young contemporary dance photographer can work with us if they want and the main thing that I really want to share today, it's actually our new master program that we made it from this year. It should be start last year, but because of the COVID-19 and everything. So this is English program, study program of the second cycles, cycles for Master of arts, for contemporary dance choreography. And the second program is Master of art of contemporary dance education. It means that students can learn methodology and pedagogy of contemporary dance techniques and ballet techniques. This program can be 1 year or 2 years. Which program a student can learn depends on the previous education of the student. And it's a kind of really interesting program because students are learning choreography while learning about the sonography and history of costumes, Laban, analysis dance theory or theory of dance, and then world music and performing arts theory.

　　And the program for education includes methodology of classical ballet, methodology of contemporary dance, Laban analysis. There is still a history of costume, small world music and performing arts theory. Both program designers that we give the skills to the young students to analyze through maybe I can say, understanding the arts. Because for me personally I don't think that they can just use the choreography like to be master of choreography, but master of theory of choreography and how they can help themselves to understand what they have to do. And the program can be like both online and present in N. Macedonia. I would really like to share this information with the Chinese universities and I think maybe some students will want to come and they don't have to stay the full time in Skopje.They can come in several timing zones that we are going to organize for foreign students. We already have students from abroad. And I hope that this is going to continue. And also like to say that in the frame of this study program, we have a creative hub center in which we are inviting different kind of artists, well known and well recognized not just in Macedonia, but also abroad. And they can have a knowledge in a wider meaning of contemporary culture. So they can have a knowledge about the film, about the theater, about the visual arts.

　　The new platform that we are doing now is computer generated choreography, which is going to be held in April 2022. And this part of the program will be also part of the study program. So if anyone is interested from the universities to share this information with their students, I will be really glad to explain more. And you can find write to me anytime. Thank you very much.

 

Latvian Academy of Culture

Ms. Olga Žitluhina

zitluhina@gmail.com

　　Hi, everyone. It's really nice to see people I know and people who know me and huge thanks for China to actually bring us together and we are still connected. Like last festival when I make I'm director the Contemporary Dance Festival Riga. Last festival, we made it like 90 % live. We brought some dancers to the Festival who I actually met in China. And it's so nice to have this possibility to meet again, I mean, live.

　　Again. What I would like to say like we are very small country but I'm head of contemporary dance department in Latvia and we are open for any collaboration and any projects. I will always like to have teachers and students and my school, because like we had already many of them and we had many performances in Latvia from China.

　　And yeah, I'm trying to be online as well, trying to have zoom class, even zoom composition class as well. Yeah, but it's not my piece of cake and I really admire Risima for going forward is all this computer choreography. I will try. But let's see what we can make. And I really miss China and I would like to see all my Chinese friends. And thank you, Mr. Guo Lei for initiating this amazing union. And thank you, Shi bo. And I think you Guan Xin. Sorry, we cannot meet, I hope next year we can meet. And we can, you know, chat, eat, dance together. And just one thing I really would like to ask all you for a couple of seconds if you can do it like this. Because for me it is very important to have nice friends to dancing online.

 

Yunnan Arts University

Ms. Xu Mei

272747364@qq.com

　　1) Hope to express its willingness to reach operable and achievable cooperation projects in future cooperation through the annual meeting.

　　2) Introduce its educational direction of training multi-ethnic dance talents.

　　3) Cooperation intention: joint research - holding academic forums; dance performance - carrying out dance art festival, art week, online and offline linkage performance.

　　4) Talent training - cross-school joint training; domestic excellent talent training mode and textbook sharing; the strengthening of practice platform and the formation of a normal mechanism for forum exchanges; resource sharing; guidance on online and offline works.

Northwest Minzu University

Ms. Li Qi

262720411@qq.com

　　1) Sharing, exchange and cooperation of teaching resources - communication and exchange between teachers and students, summer camp

　　2) A new mode of teacher resource sharing - the introduction of the mode focusing on ballet and modern dance, and the dispatch of Dunhuang dance and ethnic and folk dance.

　　3) Exchange and publicize intangible cultural heritage dance and Dunhuang dance resources, promote the extension of the cultural characteristics and advantages of Northwest China, and hope to present them on the world stage in various forms.

 

Mr. Guan Xi

Culture Counselor of Chinese Embassy in Bulgaria

　　Great to see everyone. I am happy to still have the chance to join the event of China-CEEC Dance Culture Union. I am in Bulgaria. As a witness of the foundation of this Union and now a frontier worker for culture exchange, I cherish the memory working with everyone among this Union. I sincerely hope that since every member has already proposed many specific cooperation ideas, the secretariat will record all these ideas and also promote them into full implementation. This is not an easy work. I would also like to say that, the reason this Union could be established and continue to play an important role is that we have wonderful people in here, like Risima, Miroslava, Olga etc. You have contributed so much to this Union. And you are important to this Union. So I hope the Union would respect the creativity and motivation of everyone. Many of you like Shi Bo, have done a lot to this Union and I hope that you can play to your strengths in this Union. I would also like to provide our support to all the Chinese members to cooperate with CEE countries. Atanas has mentioned that we plan to organize China-CEEC Dance Summer Camp in Bulgaria. But because of the pandemic, we could not make it happen. But do not give up on all these great ideas. I believe we can together create more wonderful outcomes in the future!