Peter Jasko

Deep Movement Consciousness

The workshop is more of a creativity class than a dance class. Rather than teaching form, the class focuses on expanding one’s artistic self-awareness. The class begins with exploring qualities such as rebound, flow, fractions, and shaking to reach a state beyond self-judgment and self-limitations. Here we will work within the gap between power and fragility. After waking up the body and mind, we will focus on isolations and polyrhythmic exercises to root back our focus. We move with the intention of never going back, developing one’s fearlessness and ability to trust each instant’s potential to lead somewhere. We give ourselves the necessary time to tune into our body’s intuitive intelligence to solve movement paradoxes that emerge during the research process. We will facilitate each other’s exploration by working in pairs and in groups, as well as individually.
These simple open structures are simultaneously technical tools and tools for composition. We encourage the dancer to playfully explore their inner workings and personal language that result both, from everyday lived experience and learned movement patterns. By opening up creative curiosity, we enhance our movement fluency. In turn, we will develop strategies to explore the space between continuity and disruption of movement ideas by naming patterns for those interested in building choreography.

Peter Jasko’s biography:

In 2001, Peter graduated from the J.L. Bella Conservatory of dance, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.
He continued his higher education at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava, SK, for a year before entering the international school of dance P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, BE. He has been involved in the dance community in different parts of the world as a performer, choreographer and teacher for over 20 years. His professional experience includes dancing/collaborating/choreographing with/for international artists and companies such as Company Roberto Olivan from Spain, the Belgian Eastman Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Circus Eloize, Bill Coleman, Petr Forman, Roberto Magro, Peter James, EDCM, Concordia University and many more.
Since 2001, he has also collaborated with David Zambrano as both a performer and as assistant in his classes and workshops.
In 2006, Peter co-founded Les Slovaks Dance Collective. In 2009 Peter Jasko created and danced Solo2009.
In 2014 he began to collaborate and perform with Montreal dancer Clara Furey.
His latest collaborations are linked to the names such as Peter James, Luka and Atom Jasko (his children) and Elie Marchand.
For the past 20 years, he has taught in about forty-six countries around the world.
Peter Jasko became TransFormation Programming Associate for the workshop dance festival in Montreal, QC, Canada (2023).
Since 2024, Peter Jasko became certified Massage therapist (Swedish therapeutic massage and SMFT™ – Structural myofascial therapy – level 1)

Dates and times:
July 21 – 25
Monday to Friday
14:30 – 18:30

Price:
50 € registration fee
240 € total

Package deal:
In the same week Lucas Condró is teaching in the mornings. You get a 15% discount for registering to both workshops.