Yearly workshops & guest Teachers
During this weekend I wish to share with you some of my curiosities and interests in movement.
As the name says : “Transitions, Precision & Lightness” – describes well my interests in dance.
We will flow in and out of contact, viewing the dance as a playful dialogue, which breathes freely in time and space.
Composing the dance, composing the contact. Material alternates between contact- and solo tasks, towards trios and group-scores.
We will work with a variety of different methods including explorative exercises, experiential anatomy and specific technical material. Some of the movement principles I employ are informed by developmental movement patterns, release technique, and floorwork. Through these techniques we are focusing on understanding the underlying physical principles of contact improvisation; as sharing weight, rolling point, under- and over-dancing. Exploring momentum, falling and suspension in order to create effortless flow in our movement.
We will play around the ideas of falling and flying.
By researching the subtle mechanics of ‘small dance’ and suspension, we progress towards using momentum and spirals of the body to enter fluid ways to lift one-another through using the fall into ‘catching a ride’.
We will also explore how to use our arms and wings as extension of our spine. Arms can be a beautiful pathway to find entrances into lifts, and creating space and time in our dances. Breathing in and out of contact. Working with the frame and structure of the arms, we find ways connect to the space and find counterbalance in the body, providing frames to both lift and be lifted, and offer structures to be explored. We will focus on the details and technique of the body tone, alignment, reaching and small points of contact, which help us finding lightness in being lifted, and efficiency in lifting.
Awareness and presence are helping us to expand the choices and possibilities in our dance.
Cultivating conscious listening, breathing, giving and receiving.
We will evoke deeper understanding how our bodies function? How the joints, bones, muscles and fascia function ?
How this wisdom of our bodies can help us to dance more precise, light and sustainable.
Times of workshops
Friday – 11:30-18:30
Saturday – 13:00-19:00
Sunday – 10:00-17:00
PLACE – The beautiful studio Belcampo Loft – Hannie Dankbaarpassage 33
PRICE – According to your income level:
Above average income – €210
Normal income – €190
Low budght/student – €175
Spaces are limited and registration is required – we expect to be full
For questions send a mail to – sadhana.improdance@gmail.com
I am a dancer, dance-teacher, performance-artist and bodyworker made in Finland.
I have studied dance- and theatre pedagogy in Finland, Helsinki
– in Theatre Academy of Finland, from where I got my master´s degree 2008.
Though – I would say my dearest high-school and university in contact-improvisation has been the finnish contact community, where I have learned so much from my collagues, friends and fellow dancers, by sharing the dance and rolling point almost 30 years…
Contact Improvisation has been my lover since I was a teenager ! So – I´ve gone through many kind of chapters with her.
Recently I´m more and more interested in details, quality, fine tuning, listening, presence.
– Accompanied with deeper understanding of underlying principles of contact improvisation.
Breath plays as well big part in my dancing. It brings me naturally into moments of momentum,
falling, flying, swinging and bouncing.
I have been teaching contact and dance since 15 years all around the world, on many internationally acknowledged festivals and retreats.
My dance is informed by aikido, capoeira, developmental movement patterns and axis syllabus.