In Tools to Create Improvised Dances, choreographer Thomas Hauert shares the improvisation tools developed in his company ZOO, guiding dancers through progressive tasks that activate the body’s physical intuition and collective intelligence to create complex individual and group compositions in real time.

Where: Tictac Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium

When: June 1 – 12 | Monday to Friday | 10:00 – 17:30

Week 1, Tools for Dance Improvisation
is intended to introduce or refresh some of the basic tools (exercises, practices, scores, games, concepts) of ZOO/Thomas Hauert’s work.
Every joint of our body has its range of movement and there are countless combinations possible. The body possesses a great practical knowledge that goes way beyond what the mind’s consciousness is able to process. Our mind can concentrate only on a few things at one time while our body is able to combine a great amount of information in an ever changing, fluid sense of orientation, that can serve as a sensor for potential movement: physical intuition, creativity that comes into existence by mainly physical circumstances, no conscious thought is necessarily formed in order to invent movement.

Week 2, Composing Individual- and Group-Improvisations
is meant to be a development of the experiences of week 1. Intended for people who have followed week 1 or participated at one of Thomas’ workshops before. Concentrating on composing while improvising, shaping the dance as it’s being invented.

A special focus in this part of workshop will be on the analogy between movement and music. The connection between music and dance is ancient and seems obvious. It’s as if the two are different embodyments of our desire to give an order to our experience of time and space and there lies an infinite creative potential in the analogies as well as in the specificities and interactions of the two forms. We can learn a lot about movement from musicians – composers and performers – for our use of rhythm, timing, tension and release, counterpoint etc.

Thomas Hauert is a Swiss choreographer, dancer, and teacher who worked with artists including Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, David Zambrano, and Pierre Droulers before founding his company ZOO in 1998 with the award-winning piece Cows in Space. Since then he has created more than twenty works and has been commissioned by international companies and institutions.

How to register:
Info and registrations through: https://tictacartcentre.com/workshop/tools-to-create-improvised-dances/

Costs for participants:
Standard €720 (Our base rate)
Opportunity €600 (For those who need support)
Supporter €800 (Your extra helps others attend)

Contact details:
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