Alex Gerulaitis - Dance CV

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Thank you for visiting! You're probably here because you and I share some of the same passions - improvisational dance, push hands, or break-dance? That is awesome! Hope this page, the photos and videos here illustrate my love for moving, playing and improvising - and I hope you and I see each other on the dance floor sometime.

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Dance Curriculum Vitae

Good at:

• • movement improvisation, pantomime, contact improvisation, physical theater

  • mechanical and robotic movement, electric-boogie

Experience

• • 2010-2011 - Mimoda Jazzo Theater: physical theater and dance performances 

  • 2010 - Kor Dance photoshoot

• 1994-present - contact improvisation jams and classes in Santa Monica. Founder and moderator of Ci-LA online group.

• 1974-present - martial arts: tai chi and push hands, karate, ju-jitsu, ken-do, nunchaku

• 1992-95 - street performer (electric boogie, robot), Los Angeles, California. Venues: 3rd Street Promenade (Santa Monica), Colorado Blvd (Pasadena).

• 1986-1990 - judge at national and regional break-dance competitions and festivals

• 1984-90 - break-dance competitions (solo robot category), festivals, concerts, television and stage shows and performances.

• 1983-87 - Pantomime studio of Moscow State University.  Directors: Andrius Maiminas, Alexander Pepelyaev. Performances and tours.

Films

• • 1989 - "Winter in Paradise" ("Зима в Раю") - choreographer

Awards

• • 1987 - 1st place, solo robot category, USSR National Break-dance Festival -- Kaunas, Lithuania.

• 1986 - 1st place, solo robot category, USSR National Break-dance Festival -- Palanga, Lithuania.

  • 1985 - Audience's Award, Performance Arts Festival at the Moscow State University.

Press

• • B-Boying in Moscow - 1987. - Anton Bocharov, OMCrew.ru.  (In Russian.  Google translation.)

  • "...a very stylish robot: watching him, it was hard to believe he was a living human being."

  • Learning Robot Style - Anton Klimat, volnorez.ru.  (In Russian; Google translation.)

  • "One of the most brilliant dancers of the period was Alexei Gerulaitis. He was one of those who brought Robot style to Moscow."

  • Electric boogie - Andrei Tomskiy, FunkyJazz.ru.  (In Russian; Google translation.)

  • "Our country had its own heroes of the first wave of "electric boogie" - Alexei Gerulaitis, one of the first unique robots..."

  • Break-dance in Russia - oldschoolhiphop.ru, 31-May-2008.  (In Russian; Google translation.)

  • "Alexei Gerulaitis, one the coolest electric boogie dancers in Moscow, was selecting candidates for robot style dancers at the studio of the "Pravda" newspaper."

  • Дмитрий Кривобок - Заметки - Robot, Aug 2010.

Photos:

(click on the photo to see all photos in the series)

Alex from MiMoDa Jazzo on Vimeo.  Filmed Summer 2010.

Synchronized Simplicity from MiMoDa Jazzo, Summer 2010.

Alex's solo at 2:35 and 3:52.

5'6", 140 lbs. Born 1964.

Thank you.

Special "thank you" to the many people who influenced my love for movement and dance:

• • Marina Gerulaitis - for introducing me to martial arts when I was a teenager

  • Alexander Pepelyaev

  • Andrius Maiminas

  • Kara Masters - for many, many amazing dances