Sauliaus & Alex dance I Premiere: November 2024

About me

I am Paulius Prievelis - contemporary dance dancer, choreographer and teacher. I have been actively working in the dance field since 2013. As a dancer, I worked at the Kaunas Dance Theater Aura for three years, and since 2018 I work as a freelance dancer in various projects and I pay a lot of attention to the education of the young generation of dancers. I currently work at the National M.K. Čiurlionis School of Arts. I am constantly deepening my knowledge in various seminars and master courses both in Lithuania and abroad.



My plays have been presented at Lithuanian and European performing arts festivals in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Belarus, Malta, Raseiniai, Rokiški, Utena, Kaunas, Vilnius, etc.



Dance for me is not just a sequence of movements or a choreographed routine. This is our natural body language. After all, before we learned to walk, we first began to move to the rhythm of the music we heard.

About me

I am Paulius Prievelis - contemporary dance dancer, choreographer and teacher. I have been actively working in the dance field since 2013. As a dancer, I worked at the Kaunas Dance Theater Aura for three years, and since 2018 I work as a freelance dancer in various projects and I pay a lot of attention to the education of the young generation of dancers. I currently work at the National M.K. Čiurlionis School of Arts. I am constantly deepening my knowledge in various seminars and master courses both in Lithuania and abroad.



My plays have been presented at Lithuanian and European performing arts festivals in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Belarus, Malta, Raseiniai, Rokiški, Utena, Kaunas, Vilnius, etc.



Dance for me is not just a sequence of movements or a choreographed routine. This is our natural body language. After all, before we learned to walk, we first began to move to the rhythm of the music we heard.

Experience

Dancer-performer experience

  • From 2018 Freelance dancer

  • 2013 - 2016 Kaunas Dance Theater "Aura”

I worked together with choreographers and artists:


Maciej. P. Bezcek (PL/NL);
Paul Hess (DE);
Samuel Mathieu (FR);
Liza Baliasnaja (BE);
Kenzo Kusuda (JP/NL);
Vilma Pitrinaite (LT/BE);
Niels Claes (BE);
Almyra Weigel (LT/DE);
Guda Koster (NL);
Robertas Antinis (LT);
Antanas Jasenka (LT).

I collaborated with choreographers, directors and artists:

Adrian Carlo Bibiano ( MEX);
Vaiva Paukštė ( LT);
No Shoes teatras;
Ieva Jackevičiūtė ( LT);
Aira Nagevičiūtė ( LT);
Tyler Matthew Oyer ( JAV);
Pamela Kerr ( MT);
Kostas Papamatthaiakis ( GR);
Edwin Cabascango ( NO/ ECU);
Grete Smitaite ( LT);
Hanna Kritten Tangsoo ( DE);
Arūnas Kazlauskas ( LT);
Aiste Ad ( LT/ PT);
Gytis Ivanauskas ( LT).

Together with the theater, I participated in international performances:

United Kingdom at Chapter theatre (2013 m. );
Poland in Ekotopie Kultury dance festival (2014 m. );
Italy in IPUNTIDANZA dance festival (2014 m. );
Scena Otwarta / Open Stage dance festival (2015 m. );
France in Le Neuf Neuf dance festival (2015 m. ) .

Pedagogical/ educational experience

  • 2020 - now the National M. K. Čiurlionis Art School, Vilnius (LT);

  • 2020 - 2024 FOS dance house, Vilnius (LT);

  • 2019 - 2020 JCDC Johane Casabene Dance Conservatoire, Qormi (MT);

  • 2017 - 2019 Kaunas School of Choreography, Kaunas (LT);

Studies

  • Dance pedagogy, BA l Vilnius College (LT);

  • Contemporary Dance I University of Nicosia (CY).

Experience

Dancer-performer experience

  • From 2018 Freelance dancer

  • 2013 - 2016 Kaunas Dance Theater "Aura”

I worked together with choreographers and artists:


Maciej. P. Bezcek (PL/NL);
Paul Hess (DE);
Samuel Mathieu (FR);
Liza Baliasnaja (BE);
Kenzo Kusuda (JP/NL);
Vilma Pitrinaite (LT/BE);
Niels Claes (BE);
Almyra Weigel (LT/DE);
Guda Koster (NL);
Robertas Antinis (LT);
Antanas Jasenka (LT).

I collaborated with choreographers, directors and artists:

Adrian Carlo Bibiano ( MEX);
Vaiva Paukštė ( LT);
No Shoes teatras;
Ieva Jackevičiūtė ( LT);
Aira Nagevičiūtė ( LT);
Tyler Matthew Oyer ( JAV);
Pamela Kerr ( MT);
Kostas Papamatthaiakis ( GR);
Edwin Cabascango ( NO/ ECU);
Grete Smitaite ( LT);
Hanna Kritten Tangsoo ( DE);
Arūnas Kazlauskas ( LT);
Aiste Ad ( LT/ PT);
Gytis Ivanauskas ( LT).

Together with the theater, I participated in international performances :

United Kingdom at Chapter theatre (2013 m. );
Poland in Ekotopie Kultury dance festival (2014 m. );
Italy in IPUNTIDANZA dance festival (2014 m. );
Scena Otwarta / Open Stage dance festival (2015 m. );
France in Le Neuf Neuf dance festival (2015 m. ) .

Pedagogical/ educational experience

  • 2020 - now the National M. K. Čiurlionis Art School, Vilnius (LT);

  • 2020 - 2024 FOS dance house, Vilnius (LT);

  • 2019 - 2020 JCDC Johane Casabene Dance Conservatoire, Qormi (MT);

  • 2017 - 2019 Kaunas School of Choreography, Kaunas (LT);

Studies

  • Dance pedagogy, BA l Vilnius College (LT);

  • Contemporary Dance I University of Nicosia (CY).

Seminars

  • Zoey Gyssler - The Acting Body Dances (4 Day Workshop) | Berlin, Germany

  • Gabrielle Nankivell - Improvisation (4 day workshop) | Berlin, Germany

  • Keenan Dinkelmann - flow acrobatics (4 day workshop) | Berlin, Germany

  • Akita Yoshida - floorwork / acro research (6 day workshop) | Berlin, Germany

  • Reut Shemesh - choreography workshop Trust and Symmetry (4 day workshop) | Berlin, Germany

  • Jone san Martin Astigarraga & Mikel R. Nieto - improvisation research (4-day workshop) | Berlin, Germany

  • Evangelos Poulinas - nering'o research (4-day seminar) | Berlin, Germany

b12 - contemporary dance and performance art festival

Master classes with lecturers

  • Peter Jasko - Vilnius, Lithuania;

  • Club Guy & Roni - Groningen, Holland;

  • Yaron Shamir - Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Ieva Navickaitė - Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Marcela Sanchez Mota and Octavio Zeivy / Foco Alaire Producciones- "Physical theater", Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Silva Gribaudi - "The sparkling body: a focus on tragic-comical dance", Kaunas, Lithuania

  • Kwang Min Kim - Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Sun Tae Lee - Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Idan Sharabi - Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Niv Sheifeld & Oren Laor - Body and Imagination, Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Arturo Lugo - "Biomechanics and Movement", Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Omar Carrum - Continuum, Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Jung Sik Roh & Bo Lam Bee - "How can we move with our body?", Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Niv Sheifeld & Oren Laor - Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Anat Grigorio - „And now…Be yourself“, Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Gun Lund - "Inner perception of a dancer", Kaunas, Lithuania

  • Daina Dieva - Song God - Sound mastery lesson "Dialogue in space" | Rokiškis, Lithuania

  • Natalia Iwaniec - Gaga Workshop | Vilnius, Lithuania | Poznań, Poland

  • Andrea Costanzo Martini Gaga Dance Technique Masterclass | Vilnius, Lithuania

Dance Workshop Festival Riga/ON

  • Mate Meszaros RIGA/ON intensive (5-day seminar) | Riga Latvia;

  • Chloe Beillevaire RIGA/ON intensive (5 day workshop) | Riga Latvia;

  • Karen Levi RIGA/ON intensive (5 day workshop) | Riga Latvia.

Summer Dance Intensive with artists:

  • Ieva Navickaitė - Dance.lt Summer Dance Intensive (5-day seminar) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Külli Roosna and Kenneth Flak - Dance.lt Summer Dance Intensive (5-day seminar) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Antoni Androulakis - Ground Technique and Acrobatics Seminar (4-day seminar) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Jonathan Burrows - Choreography seminar seminars) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Marion Sparber & Alan Fuentes Guerra - Partnering: Shared Levitation (5 Day Workshop) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Marion Sparber - Contemporary Dance: From Inside to Outside (5 Day Workshop) | Vilnius, Lithuania

Other seminars

  • Ines Cera - Contemporary Dance Technique Seminar (4-day seminar) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Nina Wollny - Countertechnique Workshop (5 Day Workshop) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Tom Weinberger - Motion Research Workshop | Kaunas, Lithuania

  • Aukje Verhoog and Mala Kline - Dramaturgy seminar "Collective Dramaturgies", (5-day seminar) | Riga, Latvia

  • NUEPIKO - "Movement intensive" (3-day seminar) | Kaunas, Lithuania

  • Bart Van den Eynde - Dramaturgy Workshop "Claim the Frame" (6 day workshop) | Helsinki, Finland

  • Thomas Schaupp - Dance dramaturgy seminar (2-day seminar) | Kaunas, Lithuania

  • Antoni Androulakis - Ground Technique and Acrobatics Seminar (4-day seminar) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Jonathan Burrows - Choreography seminar seminars) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Marion Sparber & Alan Fuentes Guerra - Partnering: Shared

  • Levitation (5 Day Workshop) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Marion Sparber - Contemporary Dance: From Inside to Outside (5 Day Workshop) | Vilnius, Lithuania

Seminars

  • Zoey Gyssler - The Acting Body Dances (4 Day Workshop) | Berlin, Germany

  • Gabrielle Nankivell - Improvisation (4 day workshop) | Berlin, Germany

  • Keenan Dinkelmann - flow acrobatics (4 day workshop) | Berlin, Germany

  • Akita Yoshida - floorwork / acro research (6 day workshop) | Berlin, Germany

  • Reut Shemesh - choreography workshop Trust and Symmetry (4 day workshop) | Berlin, Germany

  • Jone san Martin Astigarraga & Mikel R. Nieto - improvisation research (4-day workshop) | Berlin, Germany

  • Evangelos Poulinas - nering'o research (4-day seminar) | Berlin, Germany

b12 - contemporary dance and performance art festival

Master classes with lecturers

  • Peter Jasko - Vilnius, Lithuania;
    Club Guy & Roni - Groningen, Holland;

  • Yaron Shamir - Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Ieva Navickaitė - Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Marcela Sanchez Mota and Octavio Zeivy / Foco Alaire Producciones- "Physical theater", Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Silva Gribaudi - "The sparkling body: a focus on tragic-comical dance", Kaunas, Lithuania

  • Kwang Min Kim - Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Sun Tae Lee - Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Idan Sharabi - Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Niv Sheifeld & Oren Laor - Body and Imagination, Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Arturo Lugo - "Biomechanics and Movement", Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Omar Carrum - Continuum, Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Jung Sik Roh & Bo Lam Bee - "How can we move with our body?", Kaunas, Lithuania; Niv Sheifeld & Oren Laor -, Lithuania;

  • Anat Grigorio - "And now...Be yourself", Kaunas, Lithuania;

  • Gun Lund - "Inner perception of a dancer", Kaunas, Lithuania

  • Song God - Sound mastery lesson "Dialogue in space" | Rokiškis, Lithuania

  • Natalia Iwaniec - Gaga Workshop | Vilnius, Lithuania | Poznań, Poland

  • Andrea Costanzo Martini Gaga Dance Technique Masterclass | Vilnius, Lithuania

Dance Workshop Festival Riga/ON

  • Mate Meszaros RIGA/ON intensive (5-day seminar) | Riga Latvia;

  • Chloe Beillevaire RIGA/ON intensive (5 day workshop) | Riga Latvia;

  • Karen Levi RIGA/ON intensive (5 day workshop) | Riga Latvia.

Summer Dance Intensive with artists:

  • Ieva Navickaitė - Dance.lt Summer Dance Intensive (5-day seminar) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Külli Roosna and Kenneth Flakas - Dance.lt Summer dance intensity (5-day seminar) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Antoni Androulakis - Ground Technique and Acrobatics Seminar (4-day seminar) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Jonathan Burrows - Choreography Workshop Workshops) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Marion Sparber and Alan Fuentes Guerra - Partnership: Co-Levitation (5 Day Workshop) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Marion Sparber - Contemporary Dance: Inside Out (5 Day Workshop) | Vilnius, Lithuania

Other seminars

  • Ines Cera - Contemporary Dance Technique Seminar (4-day seminar) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Nina Wollny - Countertechnique Workshop (5 Day Workshop) | Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Tom Weinberger - Motion Research Workshop | Kaunas, Lithuania

  • Aukje Verhoog and Mala Kline - Dramaturgy seminar "Collective Dramaturgies", (5-day seminar) | Riga, Latvia

  • NUEPIKO - "Movement intensive" (3-day seminar) | Kaunas, Lithuania

  • Bart Van den Eynde - Dramaturgy Workshop "Claim the Frame" (6 day workshop) | Helsinki, Finland

  • Thomas Schaupp - Dance dramaturgy seminar (2-day seminar) | Kaunas, Lithuania

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