Vega Luukkonen
I am a dancer, dance-teacher, performance-artist and bodyworker made in Finland.
I have studied dance- and theatre pedagogy in Finland, Helsinki
- in Theatre Academy of Finland, from where I got my master´s degree 2008.
Though - I would say my dearest high-school and university in contact-improvisation has been the finnish contact community,
where I have learned so much from my collagues, friends and fellow dancers, by sharing the dance and rolling point almost 30 years...
Contact Improvisation has been my lover since i was a teenager ! So - I´ve gone through many kind of chapters with her.
Recently I´m more and more interested in details, quality, fine tuning, listening, presence.
- Accompanied with deeper understanding of underlying principles of contact improvisation.
Breath plays as well big part in my dancing. It brings me naturally into moments of momentum,
falling, flying, swinging and bouncing.
Technique & Flow
Form & Freedom
Poetic Bodies in Motion
Unfolding Flow: Contact Improvisation
The focus of our practice is physicality.
We flow in and out of contact, viewing the dance as a playful dialogue which breathes freely as it develops.
We work both technically – concentrating on building up a functional understanding of underlying physical principles
and structures of contact improvisation - and experientially – widening the trust to instincts, impulses and intuition.
The principal themes behind our work are organic, fluid and functional movement.
The sessions develop slowly from inside to out, ending towards more technical material.
We often start with individual floor-work, offering particular principles and tasks,
and then gradually build up to standing using the natural spirals of the body.
Material alternates between contact and solo tasks, and also exercises that connect the group as a whole.
Within specific exercises we explore tools that are helpful to work in contact such as;
sharing weight, center-to-center, leaning and supporting, rolling point of contact.
Also we use ideas around momentum, suspension, inertia & falling. We will find effortless ways into weight transfers and lifting.
Falling and catching. Suspending the time.
Technique and Poetry.
Structure and Freedom.
Playful Beings in Motion.