Julija Melnik

Lithuania
Year of starting to practice
2006
Year of starting to teach
2006
Julija Melnik

Julija Melnik – Master of Science in Education with 15+ years experience in dance pedagogy, from hip-hop dance to Argentine tango, from improvisation to sacred dances of the dervishes. She is an instructor of Samara Yoga, Choreographic Samadeva, Gurdjieff dances, Lou Yong Tao Tö Qi and constellator by method of Idris Lahore.

Since 2006 she has been developing and teaching CI in Baltic region and other countries, at the same time studying it with great number of teachers, including the pioneers – S. Paxton and N. S. Smith.

Julija continues to develop her approach in a gentle way of teaching the essentials and principles of Contact Improvisation, Argentine tango and sacred movements. Her research in liberation and harmonisation of more subtle movements such as emotions, thoughts, energy has brought her to be trained in constellations, energy and psycho-somatic techniques, meditations, massages.

In quest, after having visited the wonderful lands of the distant countries of Mongolia, India and Nepal, she discovers Hohwald, the French Dharamsala, and settles in Alsace.

Significant teachers
First impulses by Alexander Girshon, first teacher and inspiration - Angela Donii, then all wonderful teachers and dancers, including S. Paxton and N. S. Smith, Daniel Lepkoff, Julyen Hamilton, Nina Martin, Nita Little, Andrew Harwood, Charlie Morrissey, Joerg Hassman, Adrian Russi, Keith Hennessy, David Zombrano, Eckhart Mueller and others.