Totem Dance Group

The Totem Dance group (TDG) is one of Ukraine's contemporary dance companies. The company was founded in 2010 by Kristina Shyshkaryova in Kiev.

Contents

• History
• Dancers and choreographers
• References

It consists of two branches and specializes strictly on the modern dance and closely related to it disciplines.

The Totem Dance group includes dance group, modern dance school, and festival program management team. The group consists of highly professional dancers, who are led by the creative director Kristina Shyshkaryova. In addition, the basis of Totem Dance group’s staff comprises eight dancers; each of them is also choreographer and teacher. TDG constantly invites independent professionals in the spheres of dramatic art, dance art, cinema and circus art to organize mutual projects.

Teachers of TDG school stick to the European and author's methodologies, they have clear and precise structure of trainings, and every group has its own training program.

There are near 80 students visiting Totem dance school, most of them are students of specialized educational institutions. Students of Totem dance school frequently participate and take prize-winning places at various fests and contests (IFFE, Dance-festival 2013).

Frequently TDG organizes intensive master classes for dancers, choreographers and trainers, which attend students from all over CIS places. Totem Dance group collaborates with world-wide known professional trainers and pedagogues (Natalia Iwaniec, Erez Zohar ).

The First Ukrainian Professional Contemporary Dance Training Program was started in September 2013 by TDG. Totem dance PRO was intended for 9 months of training and the capacity is 15 persons who should acquire for attendance in advance.