Ilona Gerling invited as a main speaker at the EUROPEAN UNION OF GYMNASTICS (UEG) Educational Choreography Camp (ECC) 2017 in Anadia/ Portugal

The objective of the Educational Choreography Camp ECC is to contribute towards improving the quality of presentations and shows concerning choreographic issues of the International Gymnastics for All events. Nearly 60 participants from Europe listened while the opening to her lectures about “The Elements of Choreography”. Other topics of her and other lectures followed during the next days: How to support the development of National or European “Gym for Life Challenge” contests (in Germany called “Rendezvous der Besten”) and their promotion and organisation in the European Gymnastics Federations.

The ECC focuses on the improvement of the quality of choreographic presentations and shows of dance, acrobatics and gymnastics and on the preparation for the European Gym for Life Challenge, EUROGYM and Golden Age Gym Festival gala and displays or other events. It provides knowledge and support for the National Gymnastics Federations in preparing, coaching, evaluating and selecting groups for Gym for Life Challenge, EUROGYM, Golden Age gym festival or other events.

Ilona Gerling from Germany is a lecture of the German Sport University Cologne for gymnastics and acrobatics. She is at University in the University Committee for giving the Award for best choreography at the University each year. She has made her Licence as a choreographer in Switzerland. After that she has developed and evaluated as a head for that area in the German Gymnastics Federation DTB the training education contents and conditions for becoming a choreography licence Germany. She took part as a participant and as a responsible person for the DTB in nearly all World Gymnaestrada since 1987. Ilona has taking part as an instructor in all the courses of the ECC for the UEG (Frankfurt/GER, Lilleström/Norway, Helsingborg/Sweden and Portoroze/Slovenia) and she had been travelled to Brazil as a speaker for choreography.