CONTEMPORARY INTENSIVE | with Avikk 🕺🏽 & Xenia 💃🏼| Riga Studio

Schedule

Sat, 11 Jul, 2026 at 03:30 pm

UTC+03:00
Location

RIGA Studio & Productions | Riga, RI

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🔥 CONTEMPORARY INTENSIVE 🔥with Avikk 🕺🏽 & Xenia 💃🏼
Technique • Texture • Lyricality • Solo Performance • Duet & Contact Improvisation
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📍 SATURDAY 11/07
15:30–20:30
Riga Studio & Productions
3 x 90-minute sessions
+ 30-minute Q&A
✨5 hours total
This is not another choreography workshop.
This is a focused contemporary room for dancers who want more than copying steps, finishing counts, or repeating the same safe movements.
Most dancers can learn a phrase.
But can you make the phrase breathe?
Can you interpretate lyrics word by word?
Can you perform a lyric without making it obvious?
Can you stay still without disappearing, move without moving?
Can you improvise at the level of performance, without repeating?
Can you respond to another body or dancer without waiting for fixed steps?
This intensive goes into that work and even more.
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☞ 5-HOUR CONTEMPORARY INTENSIVE MAP ☜
CONTEMPORARY INTENSIVE
with Avikk 🕺🏽 & Xenia 💃🏼

├── 1. TECHNIQUE
│ │
│ └── Graham Technique with Xenia 💃🏼
│ ├── breath
│ ├── centre
│ ├── spine
│ ├── floor
│ ├── contraction / release
│ ├── gravity
│ └── control

│ Movement starts from inside.

├── 2. TEXTURE
│ │
│ └── Urban Contemporary with Avikk 🕺🏽
│ ├── rhythm
│ ├── contrast
│ ├── musicality
│ ├── lyricality
│ ├── word-by-word listening
│ └── word-by-word performance

│ Music becomes readable through the body.

├── 3. SOLO
│ │
│ └── Solo Performance with Avikk 🕺🏽
│ ├── entrance
│ ├── stillness
│ ├── eye-line
│ ├── real feeling
│ ├── stage timing
│ ├── authentic presentation
│ └── performance-level improvisation

│ There is a difference between dancing alone and holding a solo.

├── 4. DUET
│ │
│ └── Duet & Contact Improvisation
│ with Avikk 🕺🏽, assisted by Xenia 💃🏼
│ ├── contact
│ ├── weight
│ ├── space
│ ├── impulse
│ ├── listening
│ └── response

│ Not random freestyle. Response that can live on stage.

└── 5. Q&A

└── with Avikk 🕺🏽 & Xenia 💃🏼
├── technique
├── performance
├── improvisation
├── duet work
├── practice methods
└── make it yours
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☞ PROGRAM ☜
👉🏻 15:30–17:00
GRAHAM TECHNIQUE WITH XENIA 💃🏼
Contraction • Release • Spine • Breath • Centre • Floor • Gravity • Control
A Graham-based session for dancers who want movement to start from the body, not from posing.
Xenia will work with breath, centre, spine, floor, contraction and release, helping dancers find clearer initiation, stronger physical intention, and more truth in the body before style is added on top.
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👉🏻 17:00–18:30
URBAN CONTEMPORARY WITH AVIKK 🕺🏽
Flow • Texture • Rhythm • Contrast • Musicality • Lyricality • Performance
This class brings a modern musical edge to contemporary movement.
Avikk will work with rhythm shifts, pauses, accents, texture, musicality, lyricality and performance quality.
Here, lyricality is not only soft movement and musicality is not just beats.
It is word-by-word Interpretations and not just movements.
It is layer-by-layer muscality and not just catching beats.
It is Music beyond the counts.
You will work on how to catch musicality lyrics, perform meaning without becoming literal, use silence, change texture, and make movement feel personal, sharp, musical and alive.
Soft, but not weak.
Sharp, but not stiff.
Still, but not empty.
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👉🏻 18:30–20:00
SOLO PERFORMANCE & DUET / CONTACT IMPROVISATION
with Avikk 🕺🏽, assisted by Xenia 💃🏼
There is a difference between dancing alone and holding a solo.
There is also a difference between freestyle and performance-level improvisation.
Avikk will lead this session from his experience of solo performances on TV shows, concerts, major stages, international events and performance projects.
You will explore how to enter, hold attention, use stillness, perform lyrics, bring real feeling, avoid overacting, stop repeating safe movements, and make improvisation look polished, not accidental.
Then the work opens into duet and contact improvisation, with Xenia assisting the partner response and connection part.
Timing • Space • Contact • Weight • Impulse • Listening • Response
Not fixed partnerwork.
Not social dance patterns.
Not random freestyle.
Contact and response that can be used for performance.
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👉🏻 20:00–20:30
Q&A WITH AVIKK 🕺🏽 & XENIA 💃🏼
Ask about technique, lyricality, solo performance, improvisation, duet work, practice methods, stage confidence, and how to use the material in your own dancing.
Not only what to do.
Why it works.
How to practise it.
How to make it yours.
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☞ WHY THIS ROOM IS RARE ☜
Graham technique, Urban Contemporary, lyricality, solo performance and contact improvisation are usually taught separately.
Here they meet in one 5-hour intensive.
✨ Graham-based technique
✨ Urban Contemporary texture
✨ Word-by-word performance
✨ Performance-level improvisation
✨ Solo stage presence
✨ Duet & contact work
✨ Q&A with Avikk 🕺🏽 & Xenia 💃🏼
For dancers who want their movement to become more musical, personal, readable and alive.
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☞ PRICES ☜
💃🏼 Full pass: 35€
5 hours, all 3 sessions + Q&A
🕺🏽 Single class: 15€
1.5 hours
Full pass is recommended because the sessions are connected.
No partner needed.
Some movement experience is helpful.
Limited places.
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📩 REGISTRATION & INFO 📩
ℹ️ REGISTER / ASK:
✉️ [email protected]
📞 WA Xenia +371 28676258
🌐 https://avikk-official.com/

or DM: CONTEMP with AX

More about Avikk 🕺🏽 & Xenia 💃🏼
https://avikk-official.com/avikk-xenia/
👉🏻 Hit “Going”, tag the dancer who needs this room, and come ready to upgrade how you move. 👈🏻
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