CLASS DESCRIPTION:

ŻfinMalta’s Education programme is dedicated to delivering versatile and tailor-made models of exposure to dance training. The aim of the programme is to create a safe space for the development and exploration of movement techniques, under the expert guidance of tutors, both local and international.  As part of Dance Festival Malta, ŻfinMalta presents a repertoire workshop for young people aged between 13 – 18 years. The workshop provides a strengthening and confidence-building exploration of the ŻfinMalta repertoire, with a focus on the work ‘ONES’, by Simon Riccardi-Zani, which premiered as part of ZfinMade – New Futures, in December 2022. The workshop will explore the notion of rebuilding landscapes through daily life gestures, and ask: ‘which actions from yesterday may not be a part of our future?’ It will look at how dance can emerge from the translation of nostalgia and memory. Participants should have experience in dance and be ready to learn and present material from the workshop in a sharing at the end of the day. 

Amber Van Veen

Dancer, Amber Van Veen was born in 1999 in Amsterdam. She began her training at the Dutch National Ballet Academy and completed her education at the Royal Ballet school of Antwerp. After her graduation in 2018, she enrolled as trainee with Ballet Flanders, where she had the opportunity to work with choreographers including Akram Khan, Jean-Christophe Maillot and Alexander Ekman, under the artistic direction of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. She was also an apprentice at the International Danstheater in Amsterdam, touring for a year in the Netherlands and Belgium. Amber joined ŻfinMalta in 2019 and has since enjoyed a varied repertoire under the artistic direction of Paolo Mangiola.

Lotta La Haye

Dancer, Lotte La Haye was born in 2000 in The Netherlands. Since 2009 her dance education at The Royal Conservatoire of The Hague has included both the School for Young Talent and the HBO Bachelor Program. From 2014-2018 she was part of the Netherlands Dance Theatre’s (NDT) Young Talent Project, a collaboration between NDT and The Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Here she danced in works from Jiří Kylián, Johan Inger and Ohad Naharin. Lotte became an apprentice with Scapino Ballet Rotterdam in 2018 under the direction of Ed Wubbe. She joined ŻfinMalta in 2021. Sponsored by APS Bank & Finaro