31/05/2021
Konstantin Pavlidis, founder of Dance Mastery/ Choreosynthesis has spent the past 40 yeas working in the fields of therapy , traditional medicine, healing , scientific research and in the performing arts.
He is also a movement artist studying dance from the age of six and having begun his career as a Character Dancer with “Kalinka” Russian Dance Ensemble from the age of twelve with dances of the former Soviet Republics and the Vaganova Classical Ballet system. He then moved on to study other dance forms including Contemporary, Modern, Classical Indian Katak, Flamenco, Latin American and ballroom.
Between the age of 23-27 he had studied with the Russian Ballet Master Mischa Slavensky and went on to study with many other renowned dance masters. Simultaneously to his dance training he also studied and practised Tai chi, martial arts, internal arts, various meditation traditions, Tibetan/Indian and Japanese yoga forms, since the age of 12years old.
He had collaborated with various dance groups and choreographers both in performance projects and as a teacher of Dance Mastery.
He received a BEd Science from the Institute of Education, Sydney University, Australia where he majored in Biomechanical Analysis of Human Movement and has subsequently developed a number of teaching programmes in the areas of self-development, therapy/healing and the performing arts. Some of these are: Zen Essence Yoga, Kinesomasis, Dance Mastery, Choreosynthesis.
In 1987 He travelled to North America, Asia, and throughout Western and Eastern Europe to further his research in this field. He has worked with a number of dance companies and schools over the past thirty years. Some of these include the Dutch National Ballet, Deutsche Oper, Ballet Bejart de Lausanne, the Stuttgart Ballet School, the Rambert Ballet School and the Universal Ballet Company-Korea.
In 1990, Konstantin established Unstructured Light, a multi disciplinary theatre group that explores new dimensions through the meeting point between song, dance, music, acting and poetry where they work through the mediums of meditation, visualisation, yoga, energy and self-development techniques as the foundation for the creation of performances. Konstantin has produced12 full-length theatre works and many smaller commissioned pieces. Unstructured Light has presented in many countries and cities with a variety of guest artists at many diverse events.
