Morning Sessions | Lana Hosni

During the residency time in the Studio of Veem I invite you to join me in the open morning sessions. The sessions are a selection of the warm-ups and tune-ins I would normally do as an entrance to my daily practice, and they are focusing on body, somatics, movement-emotion-voice aligning and opening into availability. They are going to include different guided audio files by practitioners of Body-Mind Centering® , Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method, Linklater Voice method, Feldenkrais, Kundalini yoga etc. The space is also open for suggestions and desires, we can choose each day what works the best. Looking forward to seeing you!

Schedule: 1.-10.10. / Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday / 10:30 – 12:00

No need for prior registration, yoga mats could be necessary.

1 October 2024

10:30 — 12:00
Open Session - No ticket needed

2 October 2024

10:30 — 12:00
Open Session - No ticket needed

3 October 2024

10:30 — 12:00
Open Session - No ticket needed

About Lana

Lana Hosni (b. 1989) is a Zagreb based dance artist and vocalist. After graduating from SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) in 2013, she has been making her own work and performing in the works of other artists such as Matej Kejžar, Sonja Pregrad, Marko Gutić Mižimakov, Selma Banich, Naomi Brand, BADco., Marjana Krajač, Irma Omerzo, Bruno Isaković, Zrinka Šimičić Mihanović, Mila Pavičević, Zrinka Užbinec, Costas Kekis, Douglas Jung and others. Continuously interested in body-voice connection, since 2020 she annually organizes a project GLASNO PITANJE – Somatic laboratory for voice matters , an explorational-educational program which brings together artists with an interest in movement, body, somatic practice, voice work (in the vocal or a broader sense) and self-education.

Since 2020 guest teacher at the Dance Department of the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb.

2021-2022 as a member of the Croatian Dance Association board, she initiated several projects within the local dance scene regarding the topics of mental health, burnouts, body shaming and relation to pain and personal borders within the dance practices.

She collaborates with artists within the field of dance, theater, music, new media, hybrid practices. She has been staring in few experimental films, vocalized for few soundtracks, performances and album releases, went trough few singing collectives exploring traditional music heritage from ex-Jugoslavia regions, worked on a feminist goat farm for a year and occasional leads a pop-up choir WTFalsch – a falsch friendly collective singing gatherings in Zagreb.

For the last two years she has been researching on the locality of the contemporary dance scene in Croatia having 1 on 1 sessions of structured conversation around prejudices, conditionings, believes and unwritten rules that linger around while we operete in the field of dance. She is continuously curious to see how do these repetative patterns, whether they are wanted or unwanted, affect the ways we move, vocalize, embody, think or talk about dance and relate to each other.

Divert X Veem House

This residency is part of an exchange between Divert in Zagreb and Veem House for Performance in Amsterdam. The chosen artists for the residency are Flavia Pinheiro (Amsterdam) and Lana Hosni (Zagreb). This month Lana is in Amsterdam for a residency at Veem House and before Flavia went for a residency at Divert.

Divert and Veem House wish to create space for artistic research in experimental dance and choreography and to open possibilities for exchange with and between the two chosen artists and and the respective cities/artistic communities/workplaces/venues of Amsterdam and Zagreb.

This residency exchange is an Artistic Exchange project of the Life Long Burning Network (with the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union)