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Simona Orinska
Simona Orinska (born 18 August 1978 in the town of Ērgļi, Latvia) is a dance movement therapist and Butoh performance artist. Early life and educationOrinska grew up in Ērgļi, Latvia until she was about 6 or 7 years old when her family moved to the small village of Misa, Latvia.[citation needed] When she was 17, she moved to Riga and started her study at the Riga Applied College.[citation needed] From 1997 to 2000, she studied in the Environmental Design Department, specializing in Object Design.[citation needed] From 2000 to 2005, she completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in arts at the Latvian Academy of Culture.[citation needed] She completed her second master's degree in Health Service and Art Therapist Professional Qualification with a specialization in Dance Movement Therapy at the Riga Stradiņš University from 2006 to 2009.[1] Butoh careerOrinska had her first exposure to butoh inside a workshop with Sophie Cournede from the Schloss Brölin Art Center, Germany in 2002, and she became active in butoh in 2005.[1]
In 2008, she was involved in the International Arts Synergy Festival in Riga.[3] She made a multimedia butoh performance titled "Eyes Fluttering in My Knees."[4] In 2010, she performed "The Sacred Dances of the Night" at the Happy Art Museum in Riga, Latvia on October 30, November 6, and November 27 with Modris Tenisons (artist, director), Artis Gulbis (performance & sound artist), Gita Straustina (video artist), Skaidra Jančaite (Lithuania, singer), Ken Mai (Japan, co-author, consultant of performance), Ērika Māldere (artistic lighting designer) and her companion Aigars Lenkēvičs (graphic designer) from Lamp Design Workshop.[5][6][permanent dead link][7] Other dance performancesApart from butoh performances, she was involved in a processional art performance, "Somebody who leads",[8] ad a performance in a photo exhibition, "On Haiku".[9] She also participated in an international video dance project (Latvia, England, Portugal, Spain, Chile, Hungary). The premiere was held on August 17, 2007, in the frameworks of the International Video Art Festival “Waterpieces 07”.[10] Dance Movement TherapySimona is a private dance therapy or dance movement therapy practitioner under the supervision of the Medicine Association "ARS".[11] She provides individual and group Dance Movement Therapy to children and adults. [12] Simona complements the individual dance movement therapy with the Champi ("filling with energy" in Sanskrit) massage, which is a type of Ayurvedic massage.[12] She had two Dance Movement Therapy internships in Bristol, United Kingdom in 2008: one in a dance movement therapy center called "Dance Voice" and one in a special school for autistic children called "St. Christopher’s School”.[1] As of 20 April 2009, she was employed as an art therapy specialist (Dance movement therapist) in a children's hospital, "Gailezers", and is working with children with psychiatric problems.[1] She was also one of the founding members of the Latvian Dance Movement, Therapy Association, of which she was a member of the board of directors.[13] See alsoNotes
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