Handstand in French Mountains
Location: Barnave France <
Recover your mind and elevate your handstands
Date: 18th - 23rd July 2023
About
Experience the ultimate handstand adventure in the stunning French mountains with Henri Bruère Dawson and Jan Jirak. This six-day event is designed for everyone, from beginners to advanced hand balancers, movers and artists.
Immerse yourself in the rich tradition of French hand balancing and mobility/strength training, and explore the creative aspects of equilibristics. We'll connect this traditional technique with other approaches to hand balancing, including anatomical and strength training knowledge and nuances of different body types.
The program is packed with activities, including classes, jams, creation laboratories with all kinds of handstand equipment, meditations, tea ceremony, we will try to find the opportunity to climb and walk in the mountains, and most importantly, we will have fun with together in the natural landscape of the French Alps.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn from two experienced practitioners in the field and elevate your handstand practice to new heights. Join us for an unforgettable adventure!
Training space
On top of the hill in a natural landscape surrounded by the Vercors mountains, you’ll train in an eco wooden building, Specially built for circus (13 m circular wooden stage, trapezes, aerial silks, mats, walking wire) simple kitchen to cook, dry toilets and outside high gantry.
Accommodation
- Your own tent & camping car in camp down the hill from the training space (natural quiet camping, hot showers, toilets, you can use the municipal swimming pool for free) Approx 12€/per/night
- Or mobile home etc. tell us your wishes, we will check the camping possibilities <3
Food
Some little shops are nearby to buy anything needed, taking your own responsibility for food and drinks during the whole event.
Small snacks during the trainings will be prepared by the organizers. (:
Price
Classes & program + rental of the training area:
Early bird until 5th July -> 300€ per person
6th July until the event -> 350 €
*housing/tenting is not included in the price
About Lecturers:
Henri Bruère Dawson
Formerly Learned circus in Annie Fratellini National Circus school (Paris France) and in Chatellerault National circus school.
He has been working as an artist and director with dance, theatre and circus projects for twenty years.
He has always been passionate by teaching; finding the good tools to help students unlock new skills.
On this purpose he is constantly meeting new handstand teachers to learn new ways of understanding and teaching handstands; Claude Victoria, Yuval Ayalon, Mikael Kristiansen, Emmet Louis, Pascal Angelier, Wei-Wei Liu...
His personal approach is influenced by yoga and somatic methods; relieving the unnecessary tensions in the body to use the essential muscles needed for the practice.
Jan Jirak:
Graduated from the Academy of Modern Circus in Copenhagen specialized in Hand Balancing & Balance Trapeze. His professional career led him from studies of hand balancing and acrobatics in Denmark, Ukraine, France, Germany from different teachers having different approaches.
Later on he wanted to complete his practical understanding with theoretical knowledge and so he started to study external and internal chinese Qi Gong, Northern Chinese Gong Fu called Tong Bei inspired by the movements of White Gibbon and by now, he studies at Traditional Chinese Medicine Institute in Prague.
Jan’s life long interest and inspiration comes from the comaprison of the eastern/oriental perspectives upon movement + life style and contemporary researches in physiology. He would consider himself as a practitioner, who studies science of movement to train smarter and more efficient.
Jan Jirak is founder of #PragueHandstand school of hand balancing and movement and co founder of Feel the Universe Circus Company. He teaches subject called „Movement Laboratory” at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague on Physical Theater Department.
His motto:
„The boy on the shoulders of his father can see further.” Joe Zawinul about Miles Davis