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Company Open Classes – Contemporary with Attila Rónai

Name: Company Open Classes – Contemporary with Attila Rónai
Start: 2025-03-27T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-27T11:15:00+01:00
Location: ŻfinMalta Studios

March 27 @ 10:00 am - 11:15 am

Company Open Classes

Contemporary with Attila Rónai

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 Join ŻfinMalta for an intensive week of professional company open classes with Attila Rónai from the 24th-28th March 2025. In these contemporary classes, designed for professional practitioners of dance, Attila will encourage dancers to take risks and experiment with personal movement style. Through improvisation techniques, participants can explore a vast range of dynamic qualities to find a natural flow of movement throughout their morning warm-up class. Attila Rónai is a performer and choreographer, having previously performed with companies including Hofesh Shechter Company and Sita Ostheimer Company, the latter whose work is premiering with ZfinMalta come May 2025.

If you can’t make our morning classes at 10:00, Ronai will be holding an intensive for 15+ year olds on the Saturday 29th March.

Get your morning moving in a class with the ŻfinMalta company dancers, led by local and international guest teachers. Once a month for a week or more, professional dance practitioners are invited to join the company’s morning warm-up, with practices including ballet, contemporary, somatic movement, and yoga. Classes are suitable for 18+ years, and perfect for professionals and advanced students*. ŻfinMalta’s Company Open Class programme is tailored exclusively to provide a space where participants can further develop their professional practice, make connections, and experience life inside Malta’s National Dance Company.

Age: 18+*

*We consider participation from younger individuals on a case-to-case basis, usually accepting requests from participants pursuing vocational training. Interested participants under the age of 18, and those with queries regarding the pace of this class may contact emma-louise.walker@zfinmalta.mt in advance of booking their tickets.

Company Open Classes are set at a professional pace suitable for the company’s dancers morning routine. Upon the booking of tickets, there is the assumption that participants have had experience in the practicing technique and that the class is not an introductory session for them.

About Attila Rónai

Contemporary Dancer, Choreographer

Rónai started his dance training at the Hungarian Dance Academy, and shortly after, he began working and performing with various Hungarian companies and choreographers, such as: Inversedance- Zoltán Fodor, Gangaray Dance Company, PR- Evolution Dance Company, Central European Dance Theatre, and Éva Duda Dance Company.

In 2013, he joined kwaad bloed/Ugo Dehaes in Belgium for the creation of Grafted. That same year, Attila was offered an apprenticeship with the Hofesh Shechter Company in the UK. What began as a one-year opportunity, turned into eight years as a full company member. During his time there, he also led workshops and classes internationally, and assisted Hofesh Shechter in a creation for the GöteborgOperans Danskompani.

In 2019, He created his first choreographic work for Nuova Officina della Danza in Torino.

Since 2021, he has been working as a freelancer, allowing him the freedom to share his passion for dance across various countries. He has actively participated in numerous summer dance festivals as a performer, teacher and judge, enriching his experience and connecting him with diverse dance communities.

He performed with: HODWORKS (Amber), Lyon Opera House (Le Messie), Frenák Company (In Time) and Sita Ostheimer Company (The Inevitable and You). In 2022, he created his new piece for Éva Duda Dance Company in Hungary, titled I Shall Be Free. In 2023 he participated in a creation for Hofesh Shechter Company „Double Murder” in which he performed and assisted rehearsals.