Embodied Knowing: Creative Movement
Feadan McCall
Create your own movement language through skill, musicality, and embodied presence
Date
Sun. 12th July
Time
16:00 - 17:30
Duration
90 minutes
Location
Marktsteeg 1, Leiden | Water Room
Price
Start by buying your pass. Then, come back here to reserve your spot in this session!
Two-Day Pass: €169
From May 12: €199
One-Day Pass: €93
From May 12: €110
1-Class Pass: €30
Level: Open to all levels
This practice is about making your own movement-generating dance material that is unmistakably yours. Through guided meditation and improvisation, we mine the rhythms, images, and impulses already living in the body and shape them into vocabulary you can transform, build on and own.
Not learning a style, but sourcing from yourself: catching an impulse, following it, turning it into material. Phrases, textures, dynamics-the raw language of your own dance. Expect bold expression, sharp and sensitive listening, and the freedom to discover new facets of how you move.
You'll leave with a clearer sense of your movement voice and tools for generating new material whenever you need it.
In this practice you will explore:
• Internal rhythm as a generator of movement and phrasing
• Meditation and visualisation as creative sources
• Improvisation as composition-turning impulse into material
• Building a movement vocabulary that is unmistakably yours
For who:
• Anyone curious about improvisation and creating and deepening their own dance
• Movers wanting to develop their own choreographic language
• Open to all, no prior dance experience required
"What I find so beautiful is that we practice with for example 'stuck' movements (we have all been stuck) and how you can make a movement from there and free yourself. I notice this exercise simply has an influence on my day to day life. The new movements bring depth and enrichment to what I already know and that has an influence on how I continue to live my life through the world..
What we also have worked on in this course is Life Energy, how is your life energy? In which phase? And how could it open up for more life energy? And who doesn't need more life energy, right!?
I am really so happy that I am doing this at the moment and I also think it is really one of the best training courses I have done (and I have already done quite a few training courses).
This is because it gives a unique new layer, the layer of experience: the information of our bodies, who knows. This gives so much depth and richness, so that everything can fall into place deeply.”
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