Maya Lipsker has been a student of choreographer Nacharin and a member of Batsheva Dance Company. She produced her own works and she taught classes while in the company. Since 2003 she works as a freelance dancer and choreographer in many projects in Israel and in Europe. She has performed her works in many countries:: Dock11 (2005-2006), "Lucky Trimmer" (2005-2008), Labor Grass studio (2006), Theater Stuttgart (2005), Tanz Theater Freiburg-Heidelberg (PVC Dance Company 2007), Project Art Center in Dublin (2007), Theater Greifswald (2008), TanzArt Festival Goerlitz (2008), Tanztage Festival Berlin (2009). She has also taught dance in Berlin : Dock11, Marameo, Tanzfabrik, Balance school, Dance works Berlin, Ernst Busch University, and outside Berlin: Theater Freiburg, Theater Goerlitz, Ballet Vorpommern Greifswald, Tanz Theater Osnabrueck

Accompanied by music! Movement – Improvisation – Vocals – Composition With Maya Lipsker and Roy Carroll
Maya Lipsker’s workshop in cooperation with Roy Carroll will provide an intensive practice to dancers, actors and whoever is interested in working on movement and vocals.
The workshop will be in two parts:
The first part is comprised of the special warm up by Maya Lipsker which invigorates in a unique way the relationship between mind and body. The warm up will be an ideal preparation to start working with our natural “tools” and our energy. We are going to meet many different levels in our body and we will build a relationship of trust on our body appearance, its vigilance and instincts.
In the second part of the workshop we are going to connect our voice with our natural presence, while moving, dancing and improvising. We will create a group dynamic perception which we will use throughout the whole workshop. We will work continuously with our imagination and our personal satisfaction and we will activate our mind in order to become aware of our actions and reactions, while we will individualize each movement or sound. Roy Carroll will create music and a sound landscape which will help the two art forms to come together and will be an organic and integral part of the workshop.

Roy Caroll
Born in Dublin 1974, Roy began studying piano in 1982 and classical guitar in 1985.
He was awarded an M-Phil in music technology from Trinity College Dublin in 2001, studying composition with Donnacha Dennehy and Roger Doyle in the process.
Roy’s work has been performed at the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre (by VOX21) and during the Composer’s Choice Series at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. He has performed and recorded with: Trouble Penetrator, Double Adaptor, Sainkho Namtchylak / Roy Carroll Duo and Sausage Forest. Since 2004 Roy has been increasingly active with contemporary dance, composing music for six pieces by choreographer Maya Lipsker and producing Input / Output, a collaboration between Maya Lipsker, Rebecca Walter and Trouble Penetrator presented at Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Roy is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including Composer’s Bursaries, Project Awards and Commissions from The Arts Council of Ireland.

Price : 80 euros / – 10% discount for the studio’s members
Annual membership : 30 euros

Dance workshop With Maya Lipsker
The main word – key of this workshop is “pleasure”, through mental and physical exercise
We are going to witness the dynamic tool of personal pleasure through vigilance and playfulness.
This workshop aims at allowing dancers of all levels to meet and experience working dynamically in a group stimulating our senses and our imagination.
Focusing on our energy rather than on technique, we will explore our physical tolerance levels, our personal mastery skills, our musicality and our personal expression.
When we will discover these “pleasure ingredients”, then we start acquiring the necessary technique that out body needs to become stronger and to be able to cope with any choreographic challenge.