Simona Orinska
{{Infobox dancer
| name = Simona Orinska
| image = Simona Orinska.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|08|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = Ērgļi, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
| nationality = Latvian
| education = Riga Stradins University
| occupation = Poet
| former_groups =
| dances = Butoh
}}
Simona Orinska (born 18 August 1978 in the town of Ērgļi, Latvia) is a dance movement therapist and Butoh performance artist.
Early life and education
Orinska 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|date=December 2024}} When she was 17, she moved to Riga and started her study at the Riga Applied College.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} From 1997 to 2000, she studied in the Environmental Design Department, specializing in Object Design.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} From 2000 to 2005, she completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in arts at the Latvian Academy of Culture.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} 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.{{Cite web |date=2010-11-24 |title=Bio |url=http://www.simonaorinska.info/bioeng.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124024513/http://www.simonaorinska.info/bioeng.php |archive-date=24 November 2010 |access-date=2023-03-09 |website=Simona Orinska}}
Butoh career
Orinska 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.
- 2005 Anita Saij Butoh method (Nordic School of Butoh, Denmark)
- 2006 SU-EN Butoh Method (SU-EN Butoh Company, Sweden)
- 2007 Masterclass with Ken Mai (Riga, Latvia)
- 2007 Butoh dance masterclasses with Ken Mai, Yukio Waguri and Tsuruyama ZULU Kinya (in the framework of Nonverbal Arts Festival "Vertical 2007: Buto Relations”, (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
- 2007 [http://www.suenbutohcompany.net/ SU-EN Butoh Company] workshop and participating in the international performance project "The Chicken Project—Romeo and Juliet” (Sweden, Uppsala, Shakespeare's Festival){{Cite web |title=Romeo & Juliet |url=https://www.suenbutohcompany.net/past-projects/romeo-juliet-the-chicken-project/ |website=SU-EN Butoh Company}}
- 2007 Kitt Johnson workshop "Expressive Anatomy” (Denmark)
- 2010 Swee Keong, Lai Chee (Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 2010 [http://www.nyobakan.blogspot.com/ Nyoba Kan International Butoh Festival])
- 2010 Joao Roberto de Souza (butoh artist from Brazil, in a workshop of 2010 Nyoba Kan International Butoh Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
- 2010 Toshiharu Kasai (stage name Itto Morita) (Japan), in a workshop
In 2008, she was involved in the International Arts Synergy Festival in Riga.[http://www.i-deja.lv/?id=228 "Laboratory of Stage Arts: International Arts Synergy Festival 'i-deja'."]. Retrieved October 7, 2010. She made a multimedia butoh performance titled "Eyes Fluttering in My Knees."{{Cite web |last=Simona Orinska |date=16 July 2010 |title=Videoart "eyes fluttering in my knees" |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbxWefN-pc |access-date=9 March 2023 |website=YouTube}}
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.{{Cite web |date=2010-07-29 |title=Lamp Design Workshop |url=http://www.lampas.lv/en/description.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729022231/http://www.lampas.lv/en/description.htm |archive-date=29 July 2010 |access-date=2023-03-09 |website=Lampas.LV}}[http://www.simonaorinska.info/english.php "Simona Orinska: News."]. Retrieved October 7, 2010.{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |fix-attempted=yes |url=}}{{Cite web |last=Simona Orinska |date=13 October 2010 |title=Buto izrāde "Nakts svētās dejas" / Butoh performance "Sacred Dances of the Night" |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_HWBg1w4uE |access-date=9 March 2023 |website=YouTube}}
=Other dance performances=
Apart from butoh performances, she was involved in a processional art performance, "Somebody who leads",{{Cite web |last=TV24 |date=17 March 2010 |title=Pavasara Saulgriežu mistērija Vadātājs |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65IaxZ6i0Kg |access-date=9 March 2023 |website=YouTube}} ad a performance in a photo exhibition, "On Haiku".{{Cite web |last=Linda Kletniece |date=6 April 2010 |title=Haiku Photos |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iKs9FbBMIg |access-date=9 March 2023 |website=YouTube}} 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”.{{Cite web |last=H Apsis |date=7 August 2007 |title=relative |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk4gbwcnsSI |access-date=9 March 2023 |website=YouTube}}
Dance Movement Therapy
Simona is a private dance therapy or dance movement therapy practitioner under the supervision of the Medicine Association "ARS".{{Cite web |date=2010-10-15 |title=ARS - medicīnas pakalpojumi |url=http://www.ars-med.lv/start.php?lang=en |access-date=2023-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101015022819/http://www.ars-med.lv/start.php?lang=en |archive-date=2010-10-15 }} She provides individual and group Dance Movement Therapy to children and adults. {{Cite web |date=2010-11-25 |title=Dance Movement Therapy |url=http://www.simonaorinska.info/dance-movement-therapy.php |access-date=2023-03-09 |website=Simona Orinska|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125042544/http://www.simonaorinska.info/dance-movement-therapy.php |archive-date=2010-11-25 }} Simona complements the individual dance movement therapy with the Champi ("filling with energy" in Sanskrit) massage, which is a type of Ayurvedic massage.
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”.
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.
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.{{Cite web |title=Latvijas Deju un kustību terapijas asociācija |url=https://arttherapy.lv/index.php?page=latvijas-deju-un-kustibu-terapijas-asociacija |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100904063052/http://www.arttherapy.lv/index.php?page=latvijas-deju-un-kustibu-terapijas-asociacija |archive-date=2010-09-04 |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=arttherapy.lv}}
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Category:Latvian women artists