Graduating into Erudite

Through imageries, kinetic sensations, and aural cues, break down improvisational tasks to unlock the potential available in our bodies. This class embraces your individuality and individual learning styles, and builds movement confidence in the process.

Building Block

Bringing back the foundations, this class will reignite conversations on the body and look at how we can move on a daily basis.

E³: Exploring, Expansion, and Explosion

This class focuses on finding flow between movements as well as finding length in our bodies to push for greater expansion. Through dynamic moments of dropping our centre, this class also aims to find explosiveness amidst expansion.

Soft Bodies

Do we know our innate vulnerability? Can we be more open and accepting of it? This technique class explores the proposition of how we can use our soft, vulnerable bodies as a basis to move.

Of Initiations and Pathways

Beginning from the basics, we first understand our bodies, then sketch out the pathways of movement. Through this sense-making of movement, we will find a greater clarity within our bodies and in its connection to our minds.

Groove in Articulation

Come groove and indulge in funky music as we dive into improvisational tasks that emphasise on the torso, arms, and hands, then focus on refining articulation in the body and exploring how groove can be found within awkward movements. Expanding on these, we will then proceed to learn a short movement phrase. Come with an open heart and mind!

Strength in Fluidity

Harnessing an inner strength, find the quiet power coursing through the soft flow of the body.

Creating Quarks

Taking inspiration from the pedestrian gestures of our everyday, we will play with tools of isolation and fragmentation to enhance our body-mind awareness. Then, let us delve into the choreographic world of Quarks as we learn a movement excerpt that you can imbue with your explorations and discoveries.

Improvisation and Phrase Work

Build an awareness of your body and mind, as well as your own artistic voice and intention as a mover. The class will start with improvisation to find a sense of fluidity, and to play with the many possible pathways of movement and thought. Some phrase work and movement exploration will follow for you to experience Zoe’s choreographic style — a sense of flow coupled with moments of intrigue.

Dancing with the Inanimate

How do we move when we collaborate and duet with an inanimate object? How do we give attention, listen to stillness and others that are unpredictable? The ping-pong ball takes on the role as a movement collaborator to engender ways of viewing the movement, dance and the dancing body.

BALL MEASURES #7 movement scores will be introduced to the class to bring further attention to the performance of the relationship with the ping-pong ball. These scores aim to eliminate movement proclivity to challenge the movement performer to multiple and new levels of perception.

Freedom from Limitation

Human beings are creatures that are “free” amidst “limitations” — arising from “limitations”, the body and mind attain “freedom”. Working with this notion of limitation, a space is constructed within the body that allows us to explore objects that are expressive and organic.

Interpreting the “Human” Creature

Our bodies are always thinking. Our bodies know more than our brains. And sometimes, our bodies cause “errors” that cannot be grasped by logic. Here, we dance not to dance, but to interpret our individual yet collectively human realities and psyches. With movement as method and medium, we ask: what kind of creature is a human being?

Body Explosion

Find unexpected strength, direction, and space for movement that arises from the body’s emotional engine, rooted in muscle, vibrations, and micro-movements that conflux as one body.

Soft Power

We start by seeding consciousness in our bodies to unlock more possibilities within ourselves, and in our spatial interactions. Explore the dichotomy that is softness and power. What can remain strong even as it seems fluid and formless?

The Body’s Voice

Experience the innate energy and dynamic force of the body, and the shifting sensations of movement. Through it all, find a continuous expansion of your inner state of self.

Playing Together

Sharing movement practices based on childhood games, explore the material that construct the performance work songs for friends: a vinyl. Through playing with partnering tools, imagination, and improvisation, we will push and pull between care, closeness, and tension.

Contemporary Tools

This class will move through stages of improvisation and phrase work as we research a wide range of qualities, textures and dynamics within our movement. Using tools of gravity, breath, activation and imagery to clarify intuitive pathways in the body, discover more possibilities and options within our physicality and expression.

In the Moment

Combining elements of floorwork and improvisation, tune the body towards a connection to gravity, flow of energy, and effort reduction. By focusing on an awareness of information coming from our bodily senses, and our memories, thoughts, and imagination, we will explore a connection to the present moment, and try to integrate this information to our movement practice.

It’s Not Your Body

Experience the movement vocabulary found in Wong Tan-ki’s solo It’s Not My Body – Chapter 3.5, which arises from hitting oneself and dodging it … catching oneself … and creating action and reaction within one’s own body.

Instrumental Bodies

Instrumental Bodies – perception VS. sensation is a physical-vocal practice that will guide us to experience the weighty existence of our bodies and the sounds generated within them through different actions with and connections to the floor, alongside floorwork technique, and via a vocal approach.We will investigate the body’s versatile vocalism as transformative language; the range of the voice as muscle. We will practise humming, singing and moving our voice and flesh through and within a space of darkness.

Awareness, Control and Play

Having freedom of motion is key to unlocking the potential of our bodies’ capabilities. This class will guide us to become more sensitive to and aware of the joints and muscles of the body, as well as develop strength and clarity in executing dynamic and explosive movements. Quadrupedal and simple acrobatic movement will also be introduced as a way to play, explore and train.

Living Together

Sharing a movement practice that has developed into a nomadic performance intervention, we invite you to encounter a piece of dance marley as a performing body – not only as a surface to dance on, but also as a partner. This performing body has its own temporality, its own way of bending, folding, expanding, curving around our bodies, and supporting us. Together, we will explore the material of the dance marley, learn to move like it moves, to inspire fresh ways of moving and of meeting one another.

Sync Up: Contemporary Partnering

In this explorative workshop, Megan and Ilya share tools and researched approaches to creating and performing duet materials based on open physical communication, nuanced listening techniques, action and reaction, playfulness and spontaneity, and the sharing of energy in real-time.

Sense Shift

Building on and connecting to our kinaesthetic awareness, let us explore the spaces in and around us together, and gain greater understanding of our bodies’ instincts, habits, and latencies.