This five day workshop will bring forth skills, tools and practical experience of somatic research, improvisation and composition for students to become more attuned to physical centers and subtleties of touch, direction and intention.
Where: Tictac Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium
When: July 7-11 from 9:00 – 13:00
This five-day workshop offers students tools, skills, and hands-on experience in somatic research, improvisation, and composition to develop sensitivity to physical centers, touch, direction, and intention. Students will explore how to refine their body-mind instrument and deepen their creative practice in theater, voice, and movement.
By learning articulate language to describe states of experience, participants will create maps for sensation and design—serving as blueprints for performance studies and grounding each student’s unique wisdom. With new input to enhance solo awareness, attention, and intention, we will witness ourselves and each other in action.
Students will discover personal strengths, expand choice, develop discernment, and practice embodiment by exploring contradictions in the body and engaging the imagination in ensemble work. The workshop invites volume, new expressive states, and the balance between discipline and freedom, strength and vulnerability—through movement, voice, writing, and drawing.
K.J. Holmes Bio:
K.J. Holmes is a NYC-based dance artist, actor, singer, and teacher who teaches and performs nationally and internationally. She has collaborated with Julie Carr, Simone Forti, Karen Nelson, Lisa Nelson and Image Lab, Steve Paxton, and performed works by Miguel Gutierrez, Xavier Le Roy, Lance Gries, Mark Dendy, Melinda Ring, and Karinne Keithley Syers.
She appeared in Matthew Barney’s Redoubt and Catasterism in Three Movements, and collaborates with drummer Jeremy Carlstedt (LIP). She teaches at NYU/Experimental Theatre Wing and Movement Research.
K.J. completed The School for Body-Mind Centering® certificate program (1995–99), and is a graduate of the William Esper Studio (Meisner technique), Satya Yoga, and Ayurveda’s World.
Recent projects include reviving her 1991 duet Swim/Sea/No See with Karen Nelson, her solo 900 Bees are Humming, and a new dance/music work Blue print mentored by Henry Threadgill.
How to register:
Register directly here: https://tictacartcentre.com/cart-2/
Here you can find more info about the workshop: https://tictacartcentre.com/product/k-j-holmes-improvisation-somatics-and-the-poetic-of-performance-practices/
Bundle Discount: In the same week Julyen Hamilton is teaching in the afternoons. You get a 15% discount for registering to both workshops.
Costs for participants: 240 €
Contact details:
Tictac Art Centre
Rue Emile Carpentier, 34
1070 Brussels
info@tictacartcentre.com
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