CHRISTINA BESKOU, ATHEN - Greece
HAMBURGER SOMMERTANZTAGE 2010
unterrichtet bei uns Floor Barre/Placement, Ballett & Pointe Work
Christina ist mir von Karen D. Savage empfohlen worden, die selbst schon an ihren Kursen teilgenommen hat und in den höchsten Tönen von ihr und ihrem Unterricht schwärmt. Sie ist eine begnadete Tänzerin, hochbegabte Choreographin und unglaublich sensible, überaus talentierte Pädagogin, die ihren Schülern sehr viel beibringt.
Christina ist sehr glücklich, zusammen mit ihrer Kollegin Karen in Hamburg ein Teil der Sommertanztage sein zu dürfen und ich bin hocherfreut, dass sie uns in ihrem überfüllten Terminkalender einen Platz von immerhin 8 Tagen gab!
Professionell ausgebildet wurde sie in London an der "Royal Academy of Dance" und bei "The Place" - London Contemporary Dance School. Sie wird weltweit als Dozentin eingeladen und ist die einzige Lehrerin, die autorisiert wurde, Floor Barre nach Maria Fay unterrichten zu dürfen. Auf den Videos und Fotos in meinen Kursausschreibungen ist immer Christina selbst zu sehen.
Sie hat eine unglaubliche Karriere als Tänzerin hinter sich, war Mitglied vieler internationaler tätiger Kompanien und gründete vor vielen Jahren ihr eigenes sehr erfolgreiches Ensemble, die "Seresta Dance Company", für die sie als Tänzerin, Choreographin und Direktorin tätig ist.
Sie wird international als Gast-Choreographin und -Tänzerin eingeladen und ist vor allem für ihren innovativen, einzigartigen Cross Over-Tanzstil Tango Contemporary berühmt, mit dem sie sehr oft in Argentinien gastiert.
read some more details about her in english:
Christina Beskou had the great fortune to start at the age of 12 studying with the Greek-Egyptian dance legend, Nelly Mazloum Calvo in Athens where she got a solid base for her future career as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. At the age of 17 she set out for London to study at the Royal Academy of Dance and obtained the Diploma of the Advanced level, A.R.A.D. She studied the Martha Graham Technique with Karen Bell Kanner at the Place (London Contemporary Dance School) where she met Maria Fay with whom she took Master Ballet classes and acquired her unique Floor Barre Technique. She is the only person in the profession who has been granted permission to teach and experiment with this specific unique technique. She started her teaching career 1987 as Maria’s assistant at the London Contemporary Dance Company and the Central School of Ballet in London.
She also attended numerous workshops with exceptional teachers all over the world, has been a guest teacher in schools and companies worldwide and has given many workshops internationally.
Dancer
She danced with Athens Ballet Theatre (1981-82), Susanne Reitz’s “Kinora” Dance Group (Amsterdam, 1982-84), Lia Meletopoulou Small Dance Theatre (Athens 1984-86), Angela Lyra’s Dance Company (Athens 1986-88), Athens Dance Company (Athens 1988), Dance Competition in Barcelona (Biennale 1987) and Seresta Dance Company (since 1989).
Teacher
in London: “The Place” (London Contemporary Dance Theatre), The Central School of Ballet, LA Studio (2006-2008).
in Amsterdam - Josette Baron’s Studio, 1984 – 1986.
in Greece: Anna Petrova’s School of Dance, Ralou Manou Academy of Dance, Ergastiri Xorou (1986 – 1988), Athens Dance Centre (1987 – 1989), Morgianova –Trasta Dance School, State School of Dance Athens 2001, Sonia Michanou-Zakynthos 2001, CID Argos 2004, Hydra - Dancing to the Gods 2007, Dance Art Greece Argalasti Eudance-workshop 2006-2009, CID Athen 2007-2008, Thessaloniki, Liz Shawn dance school 2009.
Internationally: Germany Kassel Dance Company 1996-98 and Berlin Tom Fletcher Dance Centrum (2004 – 2006), La Viruta-Parana und Buenos Aires 2006 (Argentina), Austria - Salzburg, Ciba Academy 2006
For three years (1994-1996) she taught children in Hydra, forming a group of students and creating a source of artistic activities on the island. The children have performed with the Seresta Dance Company.
She has also trained dancers to pass the examinations for the professional Dance Schools like the Royal Academy of Dance in London as well as participate in many international dance competitions.
Back in Greece she danced with various companies, started choreographing and founded her own non profit artistic organization, ‘Seresta Dance Company’.
In 1993 she established the Seresta Dance Studio to artistically support her company and to share her experience with everybody who loves dance.
Since 1998 she has been involved in the study of the history and technique of the Argentinean Tango. The results of this were three productions: “Bar Sur”, “Café Concert” and “Lifestyle”. She is currently working on a new piece together with some argentinean guest dancers.
Christina’s main purpose is not only technique, which is absolutely necessary for the execution of her choreographies, but to develop her dancer’s personalities and their potentials as human beings.
She gives the opportunity to her dancers to become creative as professional choreographers and to experiment on expressiveness and movements. Some of their choreographies have been included in Seresta’s productions.
Contemporary/Tango choreographiert und getanzt von Christina
Floor Barre by Maria Fay
The unique system created by Maria Fay in order to help dancers to recover from major injuries.
A system based on the classical ballet barre technique with influences from pilates and yoga, essential to all dancers who want to improve placement, control, flexibility and maintain purity, coordination and the correct breathing while executing the most demanding physical exercises.
Christina Beskou is the only one in the profession to whom Maria Fay gave permission to teach the system and experiment with it.
Considering the necessity of non-dancers who want to train and keep in shape, Christina developed through her years of experience a simpler approach to teaching non-dancers.
As a result of this, people are able to reach their full potential, achieve the correct posture and train their muscles to become stronger, through various exercises that help to obtain the correct breathing technique, in order to reach the maximum of their potential.
By the way: The Maria Fay technique is different to the one of Zena Rommett, New York
Christina are demonstrating some of the Floor Barre exercises in these two videos: Basic Floor Barre Advanced Foor Barre
Christina's website: www.seresta-dance.gr
- Christina Tango Contemporary
