Programme for the City of Vilnius 2025
Lithuanian Dance Information Centre and Summer Dance Intensive Vilnius invite residents and visitors of Vilnius to open classes of different contemporary dance styles!
From August 19 to 27, 2025 open dance classes in contemporary dance, Bollywood, and capoeira will take place at the Arts Printing House (Šiltadaržio street 6, Vilnius) and Lithuanian National Drama Theatre (Gedimino av. 4, Vilnius).
They will be led by six experienced contemporary dance teachers: Narendra Patil and Marion Sparber together with Alan Fuentes Guerra, as well as Lithuania-based artists Adrian Carlo Bibiano, Džiugas Kunsmanas, and Vilen Arutiunian.
The price for all “Programme for the City of Vilnius” workshops is 10 EUR (for 3 days × 1.5-hour classes).
The classes are continuous, so registration and payment are for the full course (3 days × 1.5-hour class).
The Summer Dance Intensive Vilnius programme for the Vilnius City community is partly funded by Vilnius City Municipality.
REGISTRATION:
Registration to the seminars – HERE.
Below are descriptions of the seminars and the teachers.
August 19 – 21, 09:30 – 11:00
Marion Sparber & Alan Fuentes Guerra – Contemporary Dance and Improvisation
Lithuanian National Drama Theatre (Lietuvos nacionalinis dramos teatras)
The open workshop Contemporary dance and Improvisation includes many tools and ideas, games in a group, with a partner and alone and aims to inspire the creativity, playfulness and listening-ability of participants. All ages and levels are welcome. We are looking forward to dance and play with you!
Originally from South Tyrol, Italy, Marion Sparber received her dance training at Varium and Iwanson School. Since 2014, Marion has received funding as a choreographer from South Tyrol and Germany to create and develop her own work. Many of Marion’s choreographies are a playful connection of highly physical dance, dance theater, live music, video installations by Projeto Solo and photo projections by Elli Stelzer. Her work in the freelance scene has been performed at several international theaters and festivals in Europe, South and North America, as well as in Asia.
Alan Fuentes Guerra is a Mexican choreographer, dancer and teacher received his dance training at the Akademie Sead Salzburg, Austria, in the postgraduate program Bodhi Project and at the EPDM in Mazatlán, Mexico, with a Bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Dance. Since 2017 Alan lives in Berlin and researches in the fields of improvisation and theater, showing a strong connection between physical dance and movement.
August 19 – 21, 18:30 – 20:00
Narendra Patil – Bollywood
Arts Printing House (Menų spaustuvė)
Bollywood is created to target the inner freedom of an individual’s captured emotions and expressions, which they can unleash through this colourful dance form that allows you to perform unabashedly. The movement includes a lot of hip and neck articulations alongside loud expressions and quick tapping of the feet, more commonly known as dipping. This style includes having a blast and stepping into the shoes of various Bollywood movie stars as you give the ‘Thumkas’ on some of the latest and most popular tracks from their movies.
Narendra Patil is a contemporary dance artist, choreographer, and educator known for his innovative approach to movement and profound artistic expression. Born in Belgaum, India, Narendra followed his passion for movement by pursuing an extensive training in Okinawa Martial Arts, where he attained a black belt, instilling in him discipline, grace, and a deep understanding of the body’s capabilities. Narendra further honed his skills through formal education at the Terence Lewis Dance Foundation Trust in Mumbai, where he immersed himself in the world of contemporary dance and later served as a principal performer, teacher, and assistant choreographer for over a decade. During this time, he also completed a Yoga teacher training course at „The Yoga Institute“ in India.
August 22 – 24, 18:30 – 20:00
Vilen Moreno – Capoeira in Contemporary Way
Arts Printing House (Menų spaustuvė)
- Flow & Transitions
Adapt ginga, negativas, balancao and floor rolls into fluid dance phrases.
- Kicks as Art
Turn meia-lua or armada into suspended extensions or fall initiators.
- Playful Dialogue
Use partner dodges/sweeps for contact improv; roda circles for spontaneity.
- Strength + Freedom
Train cadeira, baixa for power; handstands for inversion control.
Keep it interactive, not rigid.
Steal moves, break rules, move like Flow
Vilen Moreno, one of the pioneers of Brazilian capoeira in Lithuania, founded the country’s first branch of an international capoeira school and has been teaching children and adults the Brazilian martial art of capoeira for over 18 years.
Additionally, Vilen is a movement instructor at the *Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA)*, stays up to date with dance trends, and explores various dance styles. He is a sports coach with deep knowledge of the body and its capabilities, skilled at inspiring people and unlocking new movement possibilities—regardless of age or experience level.
August 25 – 27, 18:30 – 20:00
Adrian Carlo Bibiano & Džiugas Kunsmanas – The Body Outside
Arts Printing House (Menų spaustuvė)
Acrobatics, Dance & the Environment.
This workshop invites you to take your movement outside—into open space, unpredictable surfaces, and playful interaction with the environment.
Using a blend of acrobatics and dance, we’ll explore how the body can respond to architecture, terrain, and natural elements. Participants will work on foundational movement skills, later charging them to reflect the space they interact with.
You’ll be guided through games, drills, skill progressions, obstacle-based challenges that help develop full-body coordination, confidence, and physical awareness.
All levels are welcome
Adrian Carlo Bibiano describes himself as typical but divergent, slow but fast, down but up, closed but open, mechanical but organic. Adrian Carlo Bibiano, usually referred to as Carlo, describes himself as an inner space traveller, dance artist, choreographer and facilitator. From a birthplace he never grew up in, raised where he found dance, and now living somewhere far from both. Born in 1995 in Ontario, Canada, raised in Acapulco, Mexico, and currently based in Lithuania continuing his journey. Carlo’s passion for the dance ecosystem is visible in the last years of unwavering commitment to his craft.
He’s worked alongside “Cía. Médula”, “La Quinto danza y teatro”, collectively with artists national and abroad. Carlo is nowadays is a freelancer and a member of ŠŠA (Lithuanian contemporary dance association), international project DANCE WELL, NUEPIKO dance troupe, guest dancer in Šeiko dance company, and a facilitator at different spaces, committed to helping people & sharing his knowledge with the community he’s lucky enough to meet. He greatly values every one of his life experiences, which remind him to stay patient, kind, lighthearted, and not take life too seriously.
Džiugas Kunsmanas is calm and steady, always curious, and ready to explore. Blending various forms of stage arts, Džiugas Kunsmanas is a contemporary circus artist. Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, he began his artistic path studying acting at Vytautas Magnus University. Over time, he found his way into physical performance art, contemporary dance, and eventually contemporary circus—where all these forms come together in a different perspective.
Džiugas now works as a freelance performer, creator, and mentor. He’s always on the lookout for the joy of sharing the rich “salad” of experiences he’s gathered through different projects and artistic backgrounds.