Dance Improvisation to performance – Raul & Tom

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    • Instant Composition – dance improvisation into performance 
    Tuesday 19:00-21:30 – course starts in Feb 2026

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    This Dance Improvisation into performance course offers structured training in improvisational movement and performance practice.

    Participants will work with tools such as embodied awareness, compositional skills, listening, responsiveness, and group dynamics. Classes include guided improvisations, technical research, and collective exploration aimed at developing clarity, presence, and creative decision-making in the moment.

    A core group will be formed for the duration of the course. Participants who commit to the full trajectory will take part in a final improvised performance presented to an audience. This requires continuity, responsibility, and active engagement with the group process.

    Participants who are unable to attend the full course are welcome to join individual classes. These sessions provide insight into the training and creative process involved in building an improvised performance, without participation in the final showing.

    Raul and Tom invite you to join this group and create together.

    In order to join the course and the group you will need to fill the form and share your motivation and experience with us – Preference will be given to those who wish to commit to the full trajectory.

    registration open now for the full course – 16 classes of 2.5 hours
      
    Tuesday 19:00-21:30
     
    Feb – 24
    March –3, 10, 17, 24, 31
    April – 7, 14, 21, 28
    May – 5, 12, 19, 26 
    June – 2
    End performance on – 9th June.

    WHERE?

    Vredenburg Studio — Vredenburgersteeg 31-35, 1012 DZ Amsterdam

    INVESTMENT:

    Full course of 16 classes with a live ending performance –  €250 / €285 / €320 (depends on your income level)
    Single classes – 25 Euro per class (preferance will be given for the people who wish to join the full course)

    Registration Form

    For questions – send an e-mail to sadhana.improdance@gmail.com.

    meet your teachers

    Tom Goldhand

    Tom is a dancer and dance maker based in Amsterdam

    Studied performance art and dance in Israel and moved to Amsterdam over 16 years ago.

    Tom creates dance in the field of Instant Composition and Contact Improvisation and was the co-founder of “Mono-Collective Dance Company” that was based in Amsterdam.

    Tom currently teaches Contact Improvisation and Dance Improvisation to professional dancers and companies (Fontys schoold of dance/ Artez) and non-professional dancers in Holland and in workshops and festivals around the world.

    Raúl Saldarriaga

    Raúl Saldarriaga, an artistic researcher, performer, and choreographer, leads Amsterdam’s “Casagrafia”  movement collective.

    He holds two bachelors,  BA in Art Pedagogy,  and other one inContemporary Dance, an MA in Interactive Media and Choreography (Hanze University, NL), and an MA in Choreography and Community (CODARTS University and FONTYS University). 

    With a decade of experience teaching Contact Improvisation in the Netherlands and worldwide, he has been invited to teach at many CI Festivals. Currently, he explores playfulness in adulthood through Contact Improvisation while teaching at Vrijehogeschool.

    What is Dance Improvisation?

    Dance improvisation is a complete and full world of exploration of the body and your creativity in dance. It allows us to go into the body, talk and express ourselves in a non verbal way and find new ways to relate to other people, to our inner wishes and also to time, space and movement on stage. It can be enjoyed by anyone who wish to find the dancer within. In its highest level, Dance Improvisation is a delicate art, a meditation, a joy and a beautiful way to explore your true self and share it with other people.

    Improvisation is the way we learn about the world. Before we had patterns of movement and behavior we were playing with all possibilities and finding our own way in the world. In dance improvisation we try to keep our sensitivity open to new experience and not to be locked in our usual movement and patterns. We try to break patterns of behavior and expand beyond them. Dance Improvisation is a wonderful way to make your consciousness bigger to the surrounding and to grow your understanding of your own body and mind. Improvisation in its highest form is pure awareness – to dance, to your own self, to others and to everything that is happening.