Gelya
Hip Hop Workshop
26.09 – 27.09.2023
11:30 – 17:30
Maison des Compagnies – Meyrin
I am a freestyle dancer, movement researcher, mentor and performer from Ukraine, representing Pottporus dance company, Xfam crew. My main style is hip-hop, but I try not to limit myself, so I explore movement in general and constantly improve my improvisation skills in different styles. I believe that the main growth for any artist is self- understanding, the formation of their vision, methodology and philosophy in dance, art and exchange of honesty, love, humanity. My main goal is to share that love and values of hip-hop with the next generation and create a better foundation for them, and to represent my culture, the land, being human.
I was working as a teacher of improvisation and hip hop freestyle dance in private regular school for 2 years. I also had my own dance space in Kyiv where I was teaching teenagers and adults. With my dance team we were organising dance events, battles, dance camps.2022 I created and led two online courses “Imagery in Dance” with participants from all over the world that greatly influenced my approach to pedagogy and structured my knowledge. “What I want in my life, dance, teaching is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart.”
• Winner SDK Ukraine Female
• 2nd place SDK Europe Female
• Winner | Make Dance not War |Georgia
• 2nd place King of Kings | Belgium
• Winners 2×2 Golfstream 2021 | Dnipro, Ukraine
• Winners | Contemporary Duel 2×2 | Kyiv Ukraine
• 2nd place 3×3 and 1/2 final hop hop 1×1 Explosion Battle
2021 | Kyiv, Ukraine
• Cypher Queen | Double impro 2022 | Belgium • Winner | Terretaurbana 22| Alicante, Spain
• Winners 2×2 | Blast off Battle 22 | Barcelona,
Spain
• 2nd place All Styles | Korespondance 22 | Prague,Czech Republic
• Top 8 2×2 Flavourama 22 | Salzburg, Austria
• Winner | Marseille battle 2022| Marseille, France
• 2nd place | A Dance experience | Copenhagen, Denmark • Winner | Global skillz 23 | Dusseldorf, Germany
• Top 8 | Die Antwort Spring Battle| Hamburg, Germany
• Top 8 | Hip hop kings 23 | Tilburg, Netherlands
• Winner | Who Got The Flower 23 | with @dexterbravorootz
