Public Moves: Treasure Flow!
with Valentin Alfery

Sun 13.07., 17.00h l MQ Forecourt l Free entry

In Treasure Flow universal and improvisational elements of the street and club dance scene of the last four decades are thrown in to the mix. Both, individual movements and improvisational tools will be explored. The participants go in search of new, individual ways of moving and create short dance sequences together with Valentin.

Note: This class is also held in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS).

Public Moves dance classes take place outdoors every day – international and local instructors share their knowledge of everything from jazz and Bollywood dance to waacking in free outdoor classes. No previous experience is necessary, and all ages and levels are welcome!

Registration begins one day before the course starts at 11:00 a.m. via the calendar or by telephone on +43.1.523 55 58-19. If a class is ‘fully booked’, there is still the possibility of securing a remaining place on site. It's worth dropping by!

Biography

Valentin Alfery is a self-taught dancer and choreographer coming from the Street and Club Style community. While being rooted in the European jam and battle scene, he started to work as a freelance dancer in theatre projects in 2004. Together with Dušana Baltić, Valentin is the co-founder and -director of the Austrian dance company Hungry Sharks. Following his first major stage work Falling from 2009, he realised seven feature-length productions, the underwater dance performance Zeitgeist and several short pieces with the Hungry Sharks, as well as creations in commissioned, academic or project-based contexts.

In 2019 Young Sharks was initiated as a loose project series for emerging dancers from the urban field to gain experience in theatrical contexts. Valentin Alfery worked as a guest teacher and choreographer at the HF Bühnentanz in Zurich 2021, as well as at SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) and MUK (Dance Education of the Vienna Music and Art University) in 2022. In addition to his work as a freelance choreographer and performer (e.g. with Simon Mayer), he is working as a puppeteer since 2013 within opera projects of the Blind Summit Puppet Company. In 2020 he became part of the puppet cast of the house repertory opera Madama Butterfly by Anthony Minghella at the Vienna State Opera which is being shown ongoingly.

From 2018–2022 he has been curating street art, dance, performance and music within the year-round programme of kulturschiene Salzburg (30 outdoor events per season) as an artistic co-director. Valentin Alfery’s creations can be located on a broad artistic spectrum and highly differ from each other. They often refer to social topics and contain a strong urban movement language, the work with abstract elements and a structural logic that mostly develops by sorting material or finding patterns and connections between topics.

Photo: © Leon Bernhofer