Winter sessions | January -February 2025 | Amsterdam

10 Sessions *

Mondays: 27/01, 3/2, 10/02, 17/02, 24/02

Thursdays: 30/01, 6/02, 13/02, 20/02, 27/02

*There is also the possibility for drop-in

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Short Description

The Relationscapes Expanded Laboratory offers the space to delve into:

1. instant composition & improvisation practices

Feeling familiar with not-knowing

                     approaching our body as a fluid archive

activating the compositional & improvisational mind

using habits as a compass for navigating into unknown territories

                       perceiving each incident as motivating force

2. contemporary dance techniques as a way to strengthen, expand, and play with our movement habits and archive.

Detailed Description

MONDAY SESSIONS: Contemporary dance techniques

The aim of these sessions is to expand our movement habits by playing with forms and principles coming from release technique, floorwork, acrobatics and everyday movement observations.

The class begins with movement patterns that sharpen our awareness, activate and strengthen our bodies. It continues with a series of exercises which enable us to feel comfortable to play, roll, jump, fall, get out of axis and experiment with forms and positions that we are less familiar with.

We continue with improvisation tasks to explore different qualities, rhythm and musicality of the movement on our own time. In the end of the class, we perform longer exercises playing with endurance and traveling in different plains and levels in the space.

THURSDAY SESSIONS:  Instant composition and improvisation practices

We will work on building what I consider the ground for making instant composition performances: the compositional and the improvisational mind. By activating the compositional mind, we reflect on what has been done, sense the relationships, the vibrations and the rhythmicity of the surrounding human and non-human beings and take decisions on the spot about what will happen next in the performance. The improvisational mind generates the movement material and positions the movement in relation to gravity, time, and sensations. The compositional and improvisational mind are in a dynamic, dialectical relationship which leads to on-the-spot decisions that will shape what comes next at the time of the performance.

In the last part of each session, we compose a score-based structure for our dances and use it as a base to move, stop, listen, go beyond, mess it up and/or go back to it.

We play,

we relate,

we dont know,

we dance.

DATES:

Mondays: 27/01, 3/2, 10/02, 17/02, 24/02

Thursdays: 30/01, 6/02, 13/02, 20/02, 27/02

TIME: 19:00-20:30

PRICE:

10 classes package:  Reduced/Normal/Supportive: 120E/150E/170E

Drop in: 12E/16E/18E

REGISTRATIONS

For any questions or registrations, send me an email at marapii@outlook.com

For registrations, it is also possible to register here directly