Contact Improvisatie - Bodywork into Dancing

About this event

BODYWORK INTO DANCING

Bodywork is a somatic hands-on approach that offers a way to connect deeply with our own physicality and with our partners. Through touch and manipulations, the body arrives in the present moment, a place from where dance can emerge.

In this workshop we focus on touch and presence, and on what it means to give, receive and share a deep bodily connection. The tools come from my years as a dancer and as a bodywork practitioner, including Thai massage. Presence, honest connection and a non-imposing touch are the roots of this work. We create a safe space for the bodywork, held with care: each person chooses how they want to be touched, and clear agreements give the trust to relax into it.

Deep physical connection with ourselves and another dancer is our frame , and from here the dance starts to emerge. We arrive in an experience where movement happens attuned with our bodies and ourselves, with the other and gravity.

About the teacher:
Robin Berkelmans is a Tilburg-based dancer, performer and teacher, with Contact Improvisation and Instant Composition at the centre of his practice. In the Netherlands he organises CI workshops and co-organises the national CI Festival and the four-day Gathering. He teaches Contakids, a parent-child class that grew out of CI. He also teaches CI at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and leads a yearly four-day intensive in Freiburg since 2017. You can find him performing with the dance company Concert Curieus. Website: www.robinberkelmans.nl Instagram: @robinberkelmans