Melisa Diktas CONTEMPORARY | IMPROVISATION

Melisa Diktaş is a mover of Kurdish/Indonesian descent who is based in Holland. She is now mainly working as a dancer in the theaters for various productions, companies, clips, events. After graduating 8 years ago from dance academy Lucia Marthas Institute for Performing Arts, she has been able to taste and learn nonstop in the field with a lot of creating developed experiences. The latest work she has choreographed (in collaboration with choreographer Angelo Pardo) is the video clip by Turkish artist Karsu Dönmez. And working as a choreographer and dancer at the concert of Kurdish artist Meral Polat. Melisa her solo performances based on her own movement language and her beliefs from her perspective of the world, her work as a choreographer is also to be seen in Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Belgium and Holland. 

The workshop class will start with a breathing session, guided by the rhythms of her Kurdish drum; the Davul. This breathing session will bring you into the exact moment so we don’t have the opportunity to go into our minds, but immediately into our own body language, what it exactly needs in that exact moment. Melisa will bring you into a movement experience guided by improvisation tools, created by her own body knowledge. Melisa will bring you into a world of rhythms with specific music of Mesopotamia and her drum, your rhythms in those rhythms and what the body wants to express in that and outside of those lines. Her aim is to move from the inside to the outside instead of the other way around. The experience we have within ourselves, I want to project to the outside with our body knowledge. The tools we taped into the warmup, we take with us in the contemporary frase Melisa is going to give. Every movement we are going to produce, comes from a place. Your place! Diving into our authentic selves.