PARTNERING
Paulína Šmatláková a Michal Heriban
In the partnering workshop, we will explore the potential of physical dialogue. We’ll introduce various techniques and principles of working with a partner, where movement becomes not only a means of expression, but above all, a tool of communication.
The focus will be on building mutual trust, working with center of gravity and weight transfer, and practicing effective ways of lifting, supporting, and falling in pairs.
Through sensitive perception, we will discover together the fluidity, playfulness, and equality of shared dancing. 😊
The workshop is recommended for dancers over 12 years old with previous dance experience.
Workshop capacity is limited!
€17
FRIDAY 15.08.2025 12:00-13:30
LARGE GAB GYM
BIO
Michal Heriban (SK)
Michal Heriban is a Slovak choreographer, performer, and visual artist based primarily in Bratislava, Munich, and Prague. He is a co-founder of the theater company Jedným dychom and has been participated in over 40 full-length productions since 2012. For the past 10 years, he has closely collaborated with German choreographer and visual artist Micha Purucker. His focus includes physical theater, contemporary dance techniques, improvisation, voice in movement theater, prop work, and visual art. In the Czech Republic, he has been nominated for the Thalia Awards in 2020, 2022, and 2023 and has collaborated with tinstitutions and companies such as he National Theater in Prague, the National Theater in Brno, 420PEOPLE, BURKIKOM, Lenka Vagnerova & Company, Losers Cirque Company, Petra Fornayová, Nude Theater, DPM Theater, Move Ostrava, Anna Konjetzky, Ceren Oran, Renana Raz, Rotem Tashach, Elledanse Theater, and Radoslav Piovarči. He has also taught workshops in Seoul, Algeria, Israel, Germany, and at dance conservatories in Prague, Ostrava, HAMU (The Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing arts), as well as at various dance festivals.
PAULÍNA ŠMATLÁKOVÁ (SK)
Paulína Šmatláková comes from Bratislava, Slovakia. She studied Contemporary dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Between 2017 and 2020 she was a full-time dancer with Holstebro Dansekompagni in Denmark, where she became an assistant choreographer, rehearsal director and a tour manager. In Slovakia she has been collaborating as a co-creator and performer with choreographers Radoslav Piovarči (Charon, 2021), Lucia Holinová (Sen, 2023) and collective TANEČNO (The Urge, 2022). In 2021 Paulína worked as a performer and actor in a feature film ZENITH, choreographed by Anton Lachký. Since 2022 Paulína has been a performer and a choreography assistant with BURKICOM, under the artistic leadership of Jana Burkiewiczová. In 2023 Paulína established a company GIPALI Productions in Denmark, where she is an artistic director, choreographer and a performer. Paulína is currently working, teaching and actively performing as a freelance dance artist in Denmark, Slovakia and Czech Republic.