tour 2010/2011::

These few words perfectly resume our main activity and the philosophy with which we conceive the concept of dance: we want to create a positive contest for those who want to approach the dance environment breading a fresh air... a learning contest which face our surrounding contemporary word, and which can open the minds of our young students.

High level teachers coming from Italy and abroad will bring to Umbertide the best teaching of dance, from classic to contemporary dance and hip-hop: becuase of our dance activity which regularly brings us around the world, we want to transfer to our students all the experiences we accumulated along the years, along the festivals, over the hundreds of stages... We want to bring to them the techincs we learned sharing with our students the concept of "multi-disciplines" ( including choreography ).

Artistic sensibility, technic, and expressive capacity: these are our goals for a dance school dedicated to those who really love to dance, and to become the "artist you always aimed to be"!

The students of our "School of dance by Oplas" will have the chance to make their experience reacher and reacher thanks to the events organised at the Theatre Oplas ( live music, dance and acting performances ), being a real cultural centre for the local comunity.

THE TEACHERS

THE CLASSES

TIME-TABLE

Master-classes with EUGENIO BURATTI

ARTISTIC

March 14th - Jam session Hip_Hop

LUCA BRUNI

Dancer, choreographer, writer, film-director

Bruni started dancing in Perugia at CPD "Città di Perugia" ( dir. F.Mariotti ) and than at the National Academy of Dance in Rome before moving in Bruxelles where he gratuated at the famous dance school "Mudra" ( dir. M. Bejart ).

He started is professional career when he was still young dancing with Balletto di Roma, and then with the Ensemble of Micha van Hoecke.

The professional experience with Ballet de Tours / CCNTours ( dir. J.C.Maillot ) is a topic moment. Afterwords he works at the Dance Company of Landeshauptstadt Kiel ( dir. M.Stiefermann ), and later with Balletto di Spoleto ( dir. F.D'Alessandro ).

As a coreographer he created various ballets, some of them received prices by the critics and the audience at international competition and festivals: for example "Mamma Roma" at Prix Volinine, Parigi (F) 1993; "Carmen", at Al Carrer di Vilareal (E) 2000, and Olsztyn (PL) the Prix Na Pomostach 2005; "Julieta e Romeo" at Fira de Teatro de Castilla y Leon (E) 2006.

Bruni created choreographies for Ballet de Tours, Balletto di Toscana, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, the Ballet of Massimo di Palermo and the Balletto di Spoleto.

MARTA BENVENUTI

Teaching director of "School of Dance by Oplas"

She studied dance in Montecarlo at the prestigious Academy of Classical Dance Princesse Grace ( dir. Marika Bresobrasova ) and at SAD in Florence ( dir. L.Checcucci - Lisi and D.Locchi ).

Since 2003 she works with the Dance Co. OPLAS with many main roles : Chiara in "Chiara e Francesco", Odette in "Once upon a time... a swan lake", the first-lady in "Apple - l'origine del peccato" dancing and acting in different languages ( english, franch, german, spanish and polish ). For her many character and roles had been created.

Since 2008 she is choreographer assistant to Luca Bruni and maitre de ballet for the dance Co. OPLAS..

In the fitness environment she gratuated at FIF ( Federazione Italiana Fitness ) as a fitness musical trainer ( aerobic, step ) as a basic technic, and she teached in various Fitness centres in Florence and Città di Castello. She is teacher for postural gymanstic, and she is consulting for the choreography for the rithmic and gymnastic sportives.

Soloist dancer

Teacher of classical dance and repertory at the "School fo Dance by Oplas"

She gratuated at the School of dance Hamlyn in Florence ( dir. N.Santoro and A.Alberti ) upon the Cecchetti metod. She improved her studies at the Dance Co. of Nice Opera (F), at the Aterballetto, at the Cristal Dance in Teatro Nuovo of Bolzano ( dir. C.Tanesini ) under the patronage of M.Haydee.

She worked with the Pergine Spettacolo Aperto ( dir. M.P. Di Mauro ), the Nuovo Teatro of Bolzano ( dir. C.Tanesini ), the C.ia Leggere Strutture ( dir. M.Gandini ), the Euroballetto ( dir. M.Realino ).

Since 2006 she takes part to all the dance creations of the Co. OPLAS in Italy and abroad as a soloist and first dancer.

MARIO FERRARI

Dancer, performer, visual-artist

Born in Rome, he gratuated at the Experimental Artistic College ( first experience in Italy ) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome under the teaching of great master E.Frascione and V. Gaetaniello.

His natural tendency to experiment and the contamination ( such as a result of merging arts ) pushes him since he was young to lead new artistic and expressive path equally shareing his interest among painting, sculpture, visual art, graphic, acting and dance.

At the age of twenty he joined the dance company Oplas and soon became co-artistic director. Collaborating with L.Bruni he experimented the dance on stilts inventing and developping the technic of dancing on stilts which the critics defined “a new technic of dancing pushed to any possible and barely credible limit” ( V.Ottolenghi ).

He danced in various main roles of the dance co. Oplas in front of thousands of people around the world such as Korea, Singapore, Cuba, Thailand and 12 countries of the UE. He danced with famous artists such as Carla Fracci (2003 “Per la dolce memoria di quel giorno” ) and Daniel Ezrlanow (2003 “OVO” di Peter Gabriel).

Since 2000 he used to dedicate himself to the audio-visual, approaching new ways of expression to be employed in the dance creation as well as in his private artistic research: so far he produced short-films and many other videos. On 2009 he is the main character of the live dance performance ( and the short film as well ) named “Spazi di Nessuno”: this last had been shot in between Umbria and the South East Asia.

RADU BRANEA COSTEL

Acrobat

Actually t eacher of artistic gymnastic,
he was part of the roumenian olympionic team for the Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada (1976) and Moscow (1980).

EUGENIO BURATTI

Master class - contemporary dance

After his first dance studies at the theater of Opera of Rome, he soon joined his professional status winning various prices ( the most important the Losanna Int. Dance Competition ). He danced with Balletto of Fiandre, Ater Balletto of Reggio Emilia and Balletto di Toscana. He was chosen by R.Nurejev for the role of “ Morte a Venezia” at Arena di Verona.
He is resident dance teacher at the Balletto di Toscana dance school ( dir. C.Bozzolini ).

YOKO WAKABAYASHI

Master class - classical and workshops

Born in Tokyo, she studied at the Saiga  Ballet and soon afterwords she gratuated at the famous dance school "Mudra" in Bruxelles ( dir. M.Bèjart ). He takes part to the foundation, in 1981, of the dance company Ensemble ( dir. M.Van Hoecke ), with which she works as a dancer and choreographer assistant. He collaborated with famous artists such as R.Muti, L.Cavani, M.Bèjart, C.Fracci...

CAROLE MAGNINI

Creative Dance and workshops

Born in France, she is gratuated for Contemporary Dance at the RIDC in Paris.
She improved her personal knowledge with acting studies ( improvising, A. Mnouchkine school ), music ( piano, lyric and jazz at the national conservatory ).
She developped the projects “Art and wellness”, “Dance and handicap”and“Plastic Choreography ”.
On 2000 she founded the Co. Kadance ( Paris ) which recently became “Evidanse” ( 2007, Spoleto ).

CLASSICAL DANCE

Classes for student over 7 years old, and split in different levels according to the age and the technical level.
The classes are based upon the Vaganova method, but refreshed according to a contemporary influence.

Teachers:

Master-class: Gianfranco Brogna

The classes are split in 3 different levels, according to the age:: A (7>10); B (10>14); C (>14)

CONTEMPORARY DANCE

Classes for students over the 12 years old, and split in 2 different levels according to the age and the technical level.
We teach a dance technic developed by Luca Bruni, inspired to the dance languages of the XX century's ( Humphrey, Graham… ) and defined during 25 years of dance activity in the contemporary context.

PRE-ACADEMIC

Classes for students between 4 to 6 years old.
These classes have the pourpose to prepare the young dancers to the consequent academic studies, by a basic approach to the music, to the mouvement and to a first knowledge of their own bodies.

Students: 4 > 7 years.

CREATIVE DANCE

These classes are dedicated to all those who want to improve their creativity through the use of music, simple stage objects, easy texts, costumes, masks... and of course the use of the body as a main mean of expression.

This work will be mainly done by team excercises, in order to stimulate group communcation, curiosity, trustness and sensibility.

MUSIC ELEMENTS

Basic classes of music elements for the students of classical and contemporary classes.

Mainly using a contemporary language ( by L.Bruni and other guest teachers ) these workshops aim to stimulate on the dancers their capacity to express themselves through the dance mouvement in a solo and in a group work, in relation with the music, the spcace and the dramaturgy.

Time by time the teachers will give the instruction how to follow the workshops, and which technical level is required for.

MASTER-CLASSES

Dance classes given by guest teachers, for classical and contemporary training.

Every teacher will give instruction ho to join the master-classes, which technical level required. These classes are normally reserved for student ove 12 years old.

HIP-HOP

Classes of break-dance and hip-hop lead by the dancers of the dance Co. BOTEGA ( dir. M° Enzo Celli ) and also by the same director of the company, E.Celli. They will give classes to introduce, to mantein and to improuve the Hip-hop technic upon their own concept developped since many years of professional activity.
This is the first step of a profitable colaboration between the two dance companies Botega and Oplas, forecasting exchange and shareing of artist in common projects.

The classes are split in two different levels upon the age: : A (10>14); B (>14)

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

These classes correspond to the regular training of the Oplas Dance Co.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

ENZO CELLI and the Co. BOTEGA

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The project investigates with any possible motivation which leads the artist to create: what purpose is disguised behind the action of the hand which spreads the colours through the canvas? What is the real motivation for the painting act? What's hidden behind the doubt which cancels the previous image, ready to draw a new one...?

COMPANY

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GIANFRANCO BROGNA

Master-class - classical dance

Born in Lausanne (CH), he started his dance studies at the national Academy of Dance in Rome, and than he gratuated at Mudra ( Dir. M. Bejart, Bruxelles ). After had been working in Italy with the dance companies “Invito alla danza” ( dir. Marina Michetti ) and “Danza ricerca”( dir. Daniela Capacci ), he worked aborad in variopus dance companies such as: “Ballet du Louvre” in Parigi (F) directed by Catherine Belem; “Ballet Theatre & Dance” in Parigi (F) directed by Serge Ambert;“Staatstheater Mainz” in Mainz (D) directed by René Pegliasco; “Staatstheater Darmstadt” in Darmstadt (D) directed by Andris Plucis; “Stadtheater Krefeld/Mönchengladbach” in Mönchengladbach (D) directed by Madelene Bart and Haidrun Schwaarz.

PILATES

The program is based upon a specific but simple physical activity whose target is to acquire a self control of the body, a coordination in the mouvements, streteched muscles and mobility on the articulations. The main steps of this training are: breading, concentration, sharpness in the mouvement executions. When practised daily, this training leads to an enfourcements of the abdominals, an healthy strong shoulder, and a general fight against the natural ageing processs. The training forecasts exercises with every own body such as with small tools.

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STEP

Training which merges the pleasure of free mouvements with physical and mental coordination through an intensive cardio-vascular work out. A second target of this specific training is the increasing of the basic methabolism through the stimulation of multiple muscles which corresponds to the increasing of calories during and after the working out.

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YOGA

First of all a phylosophy ( technic Iyengar Yoga ), this is a specific training with physic, breading and mental exercises whose target is to balance with the energies of the physical and mental sphere.

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The dramaturgy goes back to a more haestetic apporach, making a focus on a story made by images rather than a true story., even if – by the end of the show - anyone will deduct his own interpretaion of the show.

FRANCESCO SANGERMANO

Dancer

Born in Cosenza, he starts his dance studies in ballet and modern-jazz at the age of 7 years old at the Dance Centre Ilaria Dima. He studies with important teachers such as R.Ciuca, E.Scigliano, T.Rigano, S.Lachance, A.De La Roche, M.Molinari, R.Salaorni, Michelle Assaf, S.Ramos
At the age of 15 he joined the AMID Dance Company.
He won the 1° Prix at the Taranto Dance Competition ( 2003 ), the 2° Prix at Lecce Danza ( 2004 ), and 3° Prix at the Pescara Dance Festival ( 2005 ).
In 2004 he danced in the opera "Arlesiana" at Rendano Theatre (Cosenza).
In 2006 wins the scholarship of Balletto di Toscana Dance School which he joined for two years.
Since 2008 he is a soloist dancer at OPLAS dancing various main roles ( the most important is Tebaldo, in "Julieta e Romeo" ).

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