This year, we will be opening a special training program for people who wish to dive deeper into Contact Improvisation: 7 intensive Module of 3 full day workshops from October until June.
The first four Modules will be led by Tom Goldhand, and the last 3 modules by prominent guest teachers – Vega Luukkonen, Arye Bursztyn, and Benno Voorham.
The wish and intention behind this program are to create a group that progresses together through the material.
15 places will be reserved for people who wish to join the full program.
If you cannot join the full program, you can still participate in a single or multiple module workshops by signing up for them.
The dates of the modules are.
Module 1 – 18-20 October
Module 2 – 6-8 December
Module 3 – 3-5 January (2025)
Module 4 – 21-23 February (2025)
Module 5 – 28-30 March (2025)
Module 6 – 23-25 May (2025)
Module 7 – 27-29 June (2025)
Place:
Studio Belcampo in Amsterdam, Hannie Dankbaarpassage 33.
Time schedule:
Friday – 11:30-18:30 – with a 1.5 hours break.
Saturday – 13:00-19:30 – with an 1.5 hours break.
Sunday – 10:00-17:00 – with an 1.5 hours break.
INVESTMENT:
7 modules with a total of over 105 teaching hours.
Early birds (first 6 places/ FULLY BOOKED) –
Low income – €950 till €1150 high income.
Normal price – (FEW LAST PLACES)
Low income – €1050 till €1250 high income
Payment can be done in instalments.
For full description of each module see below for the links.
To join the full-year program (from October to June), please fill out the registration form below, stating that you will be joining the full program.
Once received, we will contact you, and only then will your place be secured.
If you wish to join a single Module workshop – state in the registration form which Modules you wish to sign in.
Here are the upcoming planned workshops for the next season—some are part of the full-year program, and some are added bonuses that are not part of the year-long training.
Below are the dates and descriptions for each workshop. You will need to sign up in advance using a form, after which you will receive an email with the registration procedure.
Studio Belcampo in Amsterdam, Hannie Dankbaarpassage 33
In this workshop, we will start from the ground – the first and best partner. We will learn to really ground oursleves an to connect in few different way to gravity and the floor.
From the ground we will gather strength and connect to a strong quality and core movement.
Pushing with the core, we will shift our attention to become light, soft, smooth and fly on our underdancer with ease.
We will learn how to invite and hear an invitation for a lift, and we will learn how to catch one, or to disconnect from the ground without your partner noticing it.
Soft, slow, and smooth movement patterns will help us to adapt and support our own structure and the mutual dance with our partner, so we can go further with them into faster and more challenging patterns with ease and without fear reactions.
For more info and registration for this individual workshop – Click Here
In this module workshop, we will focus on our pelvis. We will aim to connect to our center of gravity, center of mass, and the beautiful butterfly-shaped bones that comprise our pelvis.
We will learn to move through and with the pelvis, gaining a deeper and embodied understanding of it. Once this level is reached, we will play with lifting and being lifted from the pelvis and center, all the way to shoulder level—seeing the shoulder girdle as a structure of lightness and support.
Connecting our center of gravity with the center of levitation (the area around the chest bone) can create a strong sensory feeling of lightness and strength. Combining both centers with another person creates a feeling of one body. By the end of the workshop, we will explore how to safely fly on a partner and how to feel secure and grounded while riding this flow as one body.
For more info and registration for this individual workshop – Click Here
Spiral is one of the key aspects in Contact Improvisation and in movement in general, it can be found in any living being – from our double helix DNA to our patterns, movement’s formation and structural building.
We are going to explore and study sense of falling and flying, suspending – in our solo-bodies, and apply these principles. In order to fly, be lifted, and be light, and to lift – we need to make friends with falling. In order to go up, you need first to go down. Using forces of momentum, suspension, inertia, swing and bounce we can create easy and effortless lifts and weight-shifts through space.
Together we will cultivate a deeper awareness of listening, breathing, giving, receiving, and timing.
A practice of un-doing. Releasing to re-learn.
For more info about Vega and registration for this individual workshop – Click Here
Contact-Improvisation is a dance-form based on movement dialogues through physical connecting. These dialogues may include the spontaneous joy of moving together, the mutual and attentive flow; the safe touch as well as some risk taking; clarity of technique together with
tolerance for disorientation and letting-go of control, letting go of ego and of ambition; the encounter with playful humor as well as deep rooted fears, curiosities, and moments of a meaningful relating with each other.
In the give-and-take of the dancing, in the intensity of the performance, am I generous to myself, to partners, to the space? What may support my ability to share of myself, as well as my ability to generously give, receive and recharge? How can I turn my dancing and performing into a generous field?
We shall play, enjoy many mistakes and experience dancing Contact- Improvisation as a very physical dance-form as well as a relational exploration of human contact. We shall explore this dance both as a fun form of bodywork, as a dance technique, and as a context for
improvisational performative sharing.
For more info about Arye and registration for this individual workshop – Click Here
Contact Improvisation will be the common ground to continue and deepen our skills to come into a poetic, physical and kinaesthetic dialogue with others. From there we will enter the realm of improvisation in relation to performing.
We will play with different scores for improvisation to challenge and sharpen our compositional and spatial awareness. Articulation and playfulness are two keywords for this workshop in which we will dance a lot for and with each other. Dances in which we can expect to be in physical contact at any moment and at the same time keeping an awareness of ones own direction in improvising.
More info about Benno and registration for this individual workshop – Click Here
