Anna Svetlitskaya

Belgium
Anno d'inizio della pratica
2006
Anno d'inizio dell'insegnamento
2018

I was born on 20.07.1980 In Ukraine and grew up in Ukraine (Marioupol) Being interested in the different cultures, I went to Moscow to study religion, believing that it was beliefs, traditions and rituals that underlie the formation of any culture. I got my bachelor in comparative study of religions in Russian State University for the Humanities in 2006 and around the same time started to dance Contact Improvisation. I came to work at the Free Steiner School in Moscow, where I had the opportunity to work in an inclusive class, with children with special needs and physical disabilities. Here I discovered the movement and expression as a part of the learning process. I was passionate about this process and was looking for an opportunity to find an approach to the individual needs of children. As a teacher at school, I found interest in a movement that has a therapeutic effect on a child’s development, how movement affects physical, emotional and mental state. Later I left the big city for the countryside, to work with people with Down syndrome and Autism. I did an extra university education in psychology of dance and movement, specializing in Creative Dance and Movement Development. Traveling and dancing, I came to Belgium 7 years ago. I went for a year cycle for Movement Practice Energetic Physiology and Embodied Philosophy through Body-Mind Centering and Meridian Chi Kung. I worked as a body therapist and dance teacher, gave theater classes for children, dance classes for seniors, was teaching and organizing Inclusive Workshops for dancers with specials needs, gave contact improvisation classes in different places in Belgium since 2018. In 2022 and 2023 I took part in the International CI Teacher Training, Freiburg, Germany

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