Annabel Koele

‘(De)Formation’
4x:
januari 8, 15, 22 en 29.
Prijs:
€ 66,-

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‘(De)Formation’

In these classes, we will explore movement and composition of the human body through a surrealistic lens. How can we become aware of our physical habits, limits, and assumptions—(de)form them—and discover a new moving body? What stories emerge in
that transformation?
This is a practice grounded in improvisation and choice-making. Through heightened awareness of our physical tendencies, we challenge ourselves to move beyond the familiar and into the unknown. Often, this unknown proves less uncomfortable than expected. As we move, dance, and sweat, we will introduce the layer of performative presence.
By feeding the imagination and observing its impact on our movement, we may uncover new ways of being in space. This is a process of constant renewal—letting go of associations, reshaping reality, and playing together in a world of our own making with a sense of lightness, humor and curiosity.

Bio Annabel Koele

Annabel Koele (1996) is a performer, mimer, dancer and maker, creating physical
performances in which she challenges time and reality. After graduating as a dancer at Codarts University in Rotterdam in 2017 and having worked as a dancer in various projects throughout Europe, she has continued her search for physical performance at the Mime Opleiding in Amsterdam. By focussing on bringing both disciplines together, she creates physical work that switches between bodily sculptures and dance performance.

She is curious to find new ways of using the instrument of the body for creating surrealistic and absurd images that become stories. Coming from a family of musicians and artists, one of her biggest inspirations and fuels for creating is music and visual art. These sources are translated towards composition and a sense of musicality and timing which makes you question your perception of time, space, and the human body.
Annabel’s solo performance MAGNITUDE was selected by Via Rudolphi for a national tour in 2024. At the same time, she received the Top Naeff Prize in recognition of her development as a physical performer and maker.

https://annabelkoele.com

Bettina Neuhaus

‘Bodies in Space, Spaces in Motion’
4x:
februari 5, 12, 19 en 26.
Prijs:
€ 66,-

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‘Bodies in Space, Spaces in Motion’.

This course explores the close connection and fascinating coordination between our movement and spatial perception as a fundamental element of dancing and making improvised pieces
Using the breath, the joints or interior pathways as an entry into moving connects us to the spatial nature of our body, its volume, weight and buoyancy. With an increasing awareness for our inner bodily landscape, we also perceive our relationship with the surrounding space more easily. Noticing how the different facets of the space inspire our actions, enriches the way how we move and listen to the material we create.
The practice focusses on dancing as a way to expand one’s spatial abilities such as orientation, spatial imagination and responsiveness. The aim is to experience space as an inherent element of the dancing body and to compose with it when making dances.

Bio Bettina Neuhaus

Bettina Neuhaus is an independent dance artist, teacher and mentor, active in the field of performance and theatre for more than 3 decades.
At the heart of her work are Instant Composition in performance and collaboration with dancers, musicians, visual artists and light designers. Bettina studied Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) with Joan Skinner in Seattle and is a certified SRT teacher at both Introductory and Ongoing levels.
She holds an MA from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London.
With a growing interest in ecology and our entanglement with the world, she has been developing a movement practice in natural environments since 2010, which she shares in projects and special workshops. Alongside her artistic work, she teaches SRT and Instant Composition at studios, dance colleges and universities across Europe.

www.bettinaneuhaus.com

Maria Mavridou

‘Do Undo’
3x:
maart 5, 12 en 19.
Prijs:
€ 49,-

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‘Do Undo’

Welcome to a movement research, performance and improvisation workshop that celebrates unpredictability and keeps evolving through play and trust, without shying away from making mistakes.

The aim of this workshop is to inspire joy by daring to engage, to dance and to create with what is unfamiliar within ourselves, in our relations with others, in the environment and times we live in. To ask questions about the obvious, the comfortable, and the habitual, embracing the vulnerability and resistance that might arise, and to celebrate a shared space of mutual trust, with the permission to try, to fail, and to fail better – keeping alive an adventurous spirit.
Through dance Maria wishes to honour the body in all forms and ways it is or is perceived to be.

Bio Maria Mavridou

Maria Mavridou. Dancer, performer, maker and teacher based in Amsterdam. Graduated with honours as a dancer from the State School of Dance, Athens and continued her studies in New York (Dance Space Center + Movement Research) with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation. She holds a BA in Choreography from the SNDO (School for New Dance Development / AHK, Amsterdam). Practiced extensively with Katerina Bakatsaki and Frank van de Ven (Body Weather) and multidisciplinary real time composition with Katie Duck and affiliated artists. She works internationally either as solo performer or in collaboration with dancers, performers, musicians, actors, visual artists in a wide range of cross disciplinary projects. a.o. Andrea K. Schlehwein + Netzwerk AKS, Asa Horvitz, The Warp / Lee Ellickson, Malgorzata Haduch, Dimitra Kousteridou, Arvind Ganga, White Horse Collective, Jonathan Nagel, Dorit Weintal, Elioa Steffen. She has been a guest teacher at the SNDO (Amsterdam), Korean National University of Arts (Seoul), Home of Performance Practices (Arnhem) and leads practices on movement research and improvisation / real time composition for artists of diverse backgrounds. Her work is almost exclusively improvised, collaborative and often site-specific, raw and exposing, commited to the joy of taking risks. 

http://mavridoumaria.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html

Katarina van den Wouwer

‘Poëzie in de Ruimte’
6x:
maart 26,
april 2, 9,16, 23 en 30.
Prijs:
€ 99,-

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‘Poëzie in de Ruimte’

Tijdens “Poëzie in de ruimte” onderzoeken we de innerlijke ruimte van het lichaam, onze persoonlijke bubbel(kinesfeer), de algemene ruimte en hoe deze drie ruimtes met elkaar verweven zijn. We benaderen dit onderzoek door te vertragen en aandacht te schenken aan ons lichaam en ons persoonlijke materiaal. Daarnaast verkennen we bewegingsoefeningen/spel ondersteund door het kader van het Laban en Bartenieff Bewegingssysteem. Als aanvulling op onze exploratie, beoefenen we in groepen instant composition, waarbij we onze unieke expressie verwelkomen, en de dans laten ontvouwen in de ruimte. Deze workshop is een uitnodiging om het poëtische potentieel en de creatieve mogelijkheden die de ruimte biedt te ontdekken.

“Space is a hidden feature of movement and movement is a visible aspect of space.” Rudolf Laban

Bio Katarina van den Wouwer

Katarina van den Wouwer begon haar professionele carrière als jonge danser bij het Koninklijk Ballet van Vlaanderen en later bij het Nederlands Dans Theater, waar zij de kans kreeg om een breed spectrum aan bewegingsstijlen te ervaren en uit te voeren. Momenteel beweegt zij zich door het leven als danser, beweging facilitator, reiki beoefenaar en student. Onlangs is zij begonnen met een somatische opleiding, vanuit het perspectief van het Laban- en Bartenieff-bewegingssysteem, om haar ervaring van het lichaam, beweging en de beoefening van het faciliteren te verdiepen. Dans is voor haar een manier van leven, een instrument voor ontwikkeling en heling, en een pad naar vreugde, creativiteit en verbinding.

Naast dans vindt Katarina grote inspiratie in reiki, yoga, schrijven en de natuur. Zij blijft ontdekken hoe deze elementen haar begrip van beweging, de aard van lichaam/geest/hart en het dagelijks leven voeden en verdiepen.

Isabelle Chaffaud

‘Intentional-Efficiency’
8x:
mei 7, 14, 21, 28
juni 4, 11, 18 en 25.
Prijs:
€ 132,-

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‘Intentional-Efficiency’

The Intentional-Efficiency Method, developed by Isabelle Chaffaud, is a practice that explores the profound connection between clear inner intention and the diverse qualities and textures of movement it generates.

This method places a strong emphasis on cultivating awareness and recognizing the vital role of the body’s efficiency and articulation in supporting and effectively conveying intention.
It embraces an approach that allows for the individual exploration and development of each aspect—intention and efficiency—while highlighting their interconnectedness.

By embodying clarity in both intention and efficiency, this holistic approach allows for the flourishing of intrinsic expressiveness.
It acknowledges and celebrates the uniqueness of each individual, providing a beautiful pathway to connect with the others and gain clarity in communication.

In Dansdrift classes, Isabelle will place special emphasis on applying this method in contact improvisation and composition forms.

Bio Isabelle Chaffaud

Isabelle Chaffaud is a choreographer, pedagogue and co- artistic director and of the MEYER-CHAFFAUD Company based in the Netherlands.
After an international career with the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de
Genève, Batsheva Dance Company and the Nederlands Dans Theater I, Isabelle was a guest dancer of Saburo Teshigawara for several years.
In close collaboration with Jérôme Meyer, they are invited to create in companies such as Scapino Ballet, Introdans, Dance Works Rotterdam.
MEYER-CHAFFAUD’s productions are performed throughout the country and internationally.
Isabelle knowledge and integrity in working with the body, together with her pedagogic skills leads her to teach contemporary master classes and workshops with various University of the ARTS such as Codarts (NL),ZHDK (CH), Koninklijk Conservatorium (NL), LE Pôle National Superieur
de Cannes, (FR).
In the SOUL # show series, started in 2017, Isabelle Chaffaud
studies the nature of human relation and through raw and poetic dance, as well as close physical participations with the audience, share what “being together” can mean.
Isabelle is Co-founder of CLOUD / Danslab, a choreographic research center which supports multidisciplinary by providing: premises, human resources and exchanges with the public.
Isabelle is Co-director of the HUBS Immersive festival, a biannual multidisciplinary festival.

Since 2017 Isabelle sits in the jury member of the Piket Art Prizes.

www.meyer-chaffaud.com
https://hubsfestival.com
www.cloudatdanslab.nl

Erik van Duivenbode

‘Anima Naturae’
workshop, 1x :
zondag 12 april, 12.00-17.00 uur.
Prijs:
€ 65,-

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‘Anima Naturae’

In deze dansimprovisatie workshop kruipen we in de huid van natuurlijke verschijningsvormen.

• We verkennen de ziel van de zee en vertalen dit naar beweging en dans
• Met bloemen als inspiratiebron creëren we een levende mandala
• We vangen de wonderlijke vormen van een zwerm spreeuwen in een flock
• Je kiest een dier of natuurlijk verschijnsel en onderzoekt de essentie daarvan in dans

De workshop bestaat uit individuele, groeps- en collectieve dansimprovisatie werkvormen. Basis voor de workshop vormt de dansexpressie methodiek. In deze methodiek komen beleving, beweging en betekenis samen met veel ruimte voor persoonlijke expressie.

Bio Erik van Duivenbode

Erik is een kwart eeuw actief in professionele dans als docent, maker en performer. Hij is tevens werkzaam als begeleidingskundige en als projectleider in cultuureducatie. Hij haalt inspiratie uit andere kunstvormen, zoals muziek en beeldende kunst. Natuur is een belangrijke krachtbron voor hem.

www.kunstkern.nl