Contact Improvisatie - The Impulse and the Duet

About this event

THE IMPULSE AND THE DUET

Once following the point of support is part of how we dance, a new layer opens: the improvisation itself. Two dancers share weight, and between them impulses keep arising. Who notices them? Who follows? What happens when both answer at once?

This workshop explores the improvisational heart of Contact Improvisation: how the body is spontaneous in its movement, how impulses arise, and how they are shaped within the duet. Through improvisation structures and exercises we practise listening, responding and making choices in real time.

We learn to trust impulse, intuition and instinct as a dancer. A duet becomes a dialogue in which both dancers speak and both listen.

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