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Helen Pokrovska got her education as a modern dancer first at the Rotterdam Dance Academy and after that at the Choreography Department of High Theater School in Amsterdam (SNDO) as a choreographer/teacher.
After graduation she worked with different choreographers in Holland and abroad: Kurt Koegel(US), Kirsty Simpson(US), Nancy Stark-Smith (US), Katie Duck(NL), Eileen Standley(NL), Pauline de Groot(NL), Rasmus Olme (BL), Vincent Verburg (NL), Hisako Horikawa (JP), GabrielaMaiorino(IT), Meg Stuart (US/BL)

She was a dancer and co-choreographer for dance companies and show groups such as “ArtFreaks” (Amsterdam), "MAF", “Magpie Improvisation Dance Company”(Amsterdam) and “ClanCarnal” (Amsterdam)

She created her own work for various dance companies such as the Dutch National Ballet (NL), "Clan Carnal" (NL/IT), "Givo Svet" (CR)

Her solo and group pieces were presented at the different international modern dance-theater festivals in Russia, Italy, Lithuania and won several prizes for the "Choreographic Achievement".

Her work is regularly performed in dutch theaters such as Melkweg, Muiderpoort Theater, het Korzo Theater, het Muziek Theater.

She teaches Contemporary/Release Dance Technique and Improvisation and Contact Improvisation(CI) workshops at the National Ballet Academy and a the School for New Dance Development of Amsterdam High Theater School(AHK).

She teaches open workshops in :Contemporary Dance,

Contact Improvisation/Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement,

Composition/ Stage presence,

Butoh,

Body-Mind Centering

in different venues and dance/theater companies in Amsterdam (Crea), Antwerp(DWP), Brugge (Wisper) and London (Jonzi D Surgery).

She has a double MA in the International Performance Research and in Theater Studies from the Universities of Warwick and Amsterdam.

She is a leader of a research team of the Inter-medial Performance Research Projects, commissioned by MAIPR (University of Warwick and Amsterdam Research Program).

She is a certified practitioner of Child's Space® Chava Chelav Method and

Awareness Through Movement Feldenkrais® Method.

She has her Child's Space and Feldenkrais Practice in Bali , where she gives individual lessons for kids and adults, as well as teaches open workshops and regular classes in Contact Improvisation/ Feldenkrais and Release Modern Dance Technique.
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