THURSDAY 2 JULY 2026
LECTURES
Mr. Louckik Lohogaonkarr (U.K.): How physical movement intelligence harmonises body, mind and soul in shiamak style.
Ms. Ilaria Prodomo / Ms.Vanessa Pistilli (Italy): Con-Qualia
Ms. Christel Stevens (U.S.A.): Not Your Shastra: How India Colonized Manipuri Dance
Ms. Shamti Ruiz Nambiar (U.K.): The Inner Awakening of the Dancer: Dance as a Path of Psychological, Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual Transformation
Dr. Dafni Mourelou (Greece): From Movement to Meaning: The Embodied Dimensions of Pedagogical Power in Early Childhood and Preschool Education “
Dr. Yang Liu (China): From Ritual to Performance: Embodiment and Cultural Identity in Xiangxi Miao Drum Dance and Balinese Legong Dance
Ms. Carolina Pepper (Ecuador): Historical Body in the Dance Work ‘Of Red Anger’ (De Rojo Enojo)
Ms. Vera Eva Ham (Portugal): “Archaeology of Movement: Whose Voices Are Dancing Here?” Dance, Ancestral Memory, and the Politics of Embodied Histories.
Ms. Yiyun Li (U.K.): Kinesthetic Knowing: Reconfiguring Perception in Underwater Ecosomatic Dance
Ms. Gladis Sierra Currumil (Argentina/Spain): MENTALDANSE, an emotional intelligence program using music and dance, applying neuroscience
Ms. Jasmine Challis (U.K.): Dance Nutrition – what has research shown over the past 100 years, and what is best practice now? Paper 1 / Paper 2
Ms. Raee Sahu (Bulgaria): Exploring Karachi’s Cabaret Dancers of the 1960s/1970s: the Case of Marzi Kanga
Ms. Judith Chestnut (Australia): Somatic Restoration Studies (absentee)
Ms. Nataša Kočar (Slovenia): An Innovative Approach to Teaching Oriental Dance: 1001 Oriental Dance Moves Didactic Cards (absentee)
Ms Veronica Higgins (U.S.A.): Arabian Excerpt from the Nutcracker choreographed by Mark Roxey (absentee)
FRIDAY 3 JULY 2026
LECTURES
Ms. Qing (Maria) Yang (China): From Art to Correction: Mechanism and Efficacy of Yang Qing’s Individualized Ballet Training in the Rehabilitation of Mild Scoliosis: An Empirical Study Based on the “Lying-Down Training” System
Ms. Beatriz Castaño Jumela (Italy): MTE.CJ: Body, Movement and Transformation. An embodied methodology for education, creation and social impact.
Ms. Fady Nakussima (Angola): Somatic Sovereignty: Reclaiming the rhythm within the architecture of exhaustion
Mr. lker Kerem Öksüz (U.S.A.): The therapeutic effects of Argentine Tango on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
Ms. Ana Köhler (Portugal): Empathy in the teaching practices of dance
Ms. Gözde Nur Ercan (Turkiye): The Intersection of Ritual and Dance: Performance and Cultural Continuity in Thrace, with a Case Study of Cemal Oyunu
Ms. Zhanna Golubenko (Cyprus): The Messerer dynasty – legendary family of performers and teachers
Ms. Liene Adamsone (Canada): Spiritual Dance the Adamsone Method
Prof. Jardel Sander da Silva (Brazil): Space to Dance: education and dance improvisation
Ms. Danai Avloniti (U.S.A.): Why the Frame Fails: Postural Organisation, Somatic History, and the Foundations of Partner Dance Instruction
Mr. Miloš Cile Mitić (Serbia): Staged Folk Dance in the Balkans: History, Principles and Contemporary Practice.
Mr.Kristián Kohút (Slovakia): DANCE – A Bridge Between African and European Cultural Traditions
Ms. Sandhya Suresh (Singapore): Who gets to belong in a Classical Form? / Odissi, Pedagogy, and the Contemporary Body
Ms. Erina Sofhia Sanders Gómez (Spain): From dialogue to dance
Mr. Panagiotis Katsikis (Greece): Zeibekiko dance: yesterday, today, tomorrow
Ms. María José Martínez Celorio (Mexico): Castanets – A Brief Explanation
Prof. Dr. Jamiyandorj Erdenekhorloo (Mongolia): Biyelgee Dance as an Expression of Mongolia’s National Cultural Identity
