• bridging
technique a framework for training
the (ever) developing dancer :
from organic, release-based, somatic understanding
to 'classical' geometric forms, and beyond ...
video recorded at SKVR Dansschool, Rotterdam, February 2020.
with Elie Nassar and Eltjo Felix de Graaf.
taught at De Studio Rotterdam, Circle Dance Rotterdam, CLOUD at Danslab
(Den Haag) Korean National University of Arts (Dept. Choreography, Seoul)
Fontys Academy of Circus and Performing Arts (ACAPA, Tilburg)
Codarts (Dept. CircusArts, Rotterdam)
· Kinetic Awareness®
re-connect with your body & learn more about your 'instrument' for dance
in a safe and supportive environment
explore your unique anatomy and physiology through your movement-sense
release "frozen" tension and make it entirely your own prevent injuries and learn to heal actual ones
bridging technique
a comprehensive and sustainable
approach
to develop and re-form your dance technique
following your
personal abilities & interest
always move from your body-sense
increase alignment, coordination and tension
levels to the best possible level, at every moment
work on fundamental patterns for specific shapes &
movements
play with spatial directions into wild
complexity and dynamics ...
when applied to European "Western" classical ballet,
it becomes hyper.ballet
the syllabus and exercises are created from synthesizing principles of :
- Release (Mary O'Donnell-Fulkerson)
- Kinetic Awareness®
- Developmental Movement / BodyMindCentering® - European Classical Ballet, Laban Movement Analysis
- the approach of Merce Cunningham
- Eshkol-Wachmann spatial language
special thanks to the Kinetic Awareness®
Center, ArtEZ School of Dance /EDDC, the National
Korean
University of Arts (KNUA) / Dept. of Choreography,
Rotterdamse Dansacademie / Codarts, School for New
Dance Development /SNDO,Fontys Dansacademie,
SKVR Dansschool, Circle Rotterdam, and CLOUD at Danslab
for providing spaces of experimentation in the
(recent) past.
optionally included :
Masunaga / Zen-Shiatsu stretches
rebalancing from the inner organs
based on traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine
Open
Form Composition
strategies to get the best of improvisation and composition
in a single perspective