During workshops, students grow within the emotional and physical realms of their craft, emotionally maturing through quick decision making within a performance and learning how to analyze a situation in order to better comprehend and react to it. Understanding these key elements allows students to become more open to a wider range of possibilities within a creative process.

My classes progress through improvisational tasks; I share movement tools through imagery, in order to create possibilities within the body. We aim to use these new possibilities to improve the movement quality, the awareness of the body in relation to the space, others and itself, as well as working in the transitional points from ‘movement to movement’: the smooth transformation of one trajectory into the next.

One of my main focuses of these classes is tri-dimensionality; breaking the flat perception of the body. I try to create awareness of the spatial planes, with special attention towards the space behind us. Discovering the freedom of traveling in any direction, creating a maze from within. We aim for strength while remaining soft and supple, sharing a raw, animalistic and grounded way of moving. Relaxing to reach farther, softening to create possibilities. Finding good solutions to accidents, which are, in my world, an opportunity, rather than a misfortune.

• OPEN LOOK St. Petersburg International Dance Festival (2018)
• NDT Summer Intensive 2017 (Improve classes)
• APAD Professional dance course in Modena, Italy (2017)
• Open Look St. Petersburg International Dance Festival (2018)
• Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK)
• OpenFLR (Florence summer Intensive 2016)
• The Place (London 2015)
• Codarts (Rotterdam 2014)
• Budapest Dance Theatre International Summer Dance Course (2016)
• Dance in Art (Haarlem 2016)
• ‘Pirouetteando’ (Summer intensive, Guadalajara México 2015)
• La Térmica (Málaga, ES 2015)
• ArtGarage (Naples 2014 and 2017)
• Korzo (The Hague 2014-16)
• NDT (Den Haag 2014)

Picture Credits

• Picture 1, 4 & 5 Tanya Yudina
• Picture 2 Sacha Grootjans
• Picture 3 OpenFLR