Workshops / Teaching

 

Constantin is teaching dance classes and is giving workshops for professionals, students, and non-professionals. He teaches contemporary dance, improvisation, classical dance, and choreographic composition. Following a 9 years-long classical dance education in Vaganova method at “Floria Capsalli” Dance High School in Bucharest, he pursued a long career as performer in companies covering a wide range of physical and artistical expression. After working in contemporary dance companies in Germany, he furthered his studies receiving an MA in pedagogy with the thesis "A fluid perspective on dance training" and he is currently a PhD candidate in Applied Cultural Studies at Art University Linz.  

Constantin is developing new methods of teaching addressed at different types of participants. He is developing tools aimed at gaining a profound control of the body, as well as approaching movement with solid knowledge and creative confidence. His trainings and workshops propose specific tasks directly related to each context and participants, being those students or professional dancers, beginners or advanced. Custom trainings are developed and implemented according to the level and needs of each group and participant. Floor work, release technique, somatics, improvisation, as well as classical dance training, are some of the main directions, combined with a personal perspective on movement which he developed through years of working with different artists and in various projects. 

His work in improvisation and composition focuses on using creative tools for performers and choreographers. In line with his interests in movement research, Constantin extended his PhD topic of surfaces in dance, for which he developed surfacing as an approach to dance research and choreography. This particular approach is further applied in his workshops, as well as his choreographic creations. 

Some of the places where he has taught are Conservatorio Music Jobra, Iwanson International Contemporary Dance School Munich, Tanzbüro Basel, Kaohsiung City Ballet, Chia Chi Junior High School Tainan, IG Tanz Sankt Gallen,  Theater Sankt Gallen, Hongeun Art Centre Seoul, Zuoying Senior High School in Kaohsiung, Bruckner University Linz, Tanz Linz. During the season 2013/2014 he has been choreographic assistant and training master at the Dance Company of Theatre Sankt Gallen in Switzerland under the directorship of Marco Santi. In the season 2016/2017 he has worked as rehearsal director and training master at Landestheater Linz, and he is a part time lecturer for the MA studies at IDA, Bruckner University in Linz.