June Classes and Workshops

My Centre

Aimed at beginner/intermediate level dancers, this workshop focuses on the use of the body’s centre, a fundamental motor of a dancer’s movement.

This workshop will begin with a technical and physical preparation of the body. Starting on the floor and focusing on our centre, we will then move on to more dynamic crossings and floorwork sequences, opening up to the use of space. We will then arrive at the upright position and proceed to do some exercises and short sequences.

The workshop will end with a short choreography.

Image by Mirco Paltrinieri

Circumstances by Chance

Ji Kyungmin, co-founder of Goblin Party (since 2007), will share his choreographic methods on creating pieces that extend the audience’s viewpoints with a blend of humour and seriousness.

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Korea National Contemporary Dance Company

Motivating Dance to the Motives

Dancers who dance without motivation look different. How will motivation and thought affect our movement in dance? How would it feel if movement stems from a certain thought? What if moving my hand is not a step, but a part of a cognitive process? Perhaps this may spark uniqueness in our movement.

Image by
Korea National Contemporary Dance Company

My Centre

Aimed at intermediate/advanced level dancers, this workshop focuses on the use of the body’s centre, a fundamental motor of a dancer’s movement.

This workshop will begin with a technical and physical preparation of the body. Starting on the floor and focusing on our centre, we will then move on to more dynamic crossings and floorwork sequences, opening up to the use of space. We will then arrive at the upright position and proceed to do some exercises and short sequences.

The workshop will end with a short choreography.

Image by Mirco Paltrinieri

The Sustainable Body

This is a training that takes into consideration the performative body’s most basic needs.

A training that nourishes and strengthens the physical/mental foundation that is a precondition for the sustainable body. A body that is ready for the extreme challenges that performing arts often demands.

A training that uses a sharply-focussed mix of techniques from free-style to formalised movement and philosophy, such as mind-body, body-mind centering, release technique, authentic movement, meditation and running practice, amongst others.

Image by Andreas Bergmann

Contact Improvisation

Contact improvisation is the basis of communication and community building.

Shintaro will guide a class on how to use this tools. Participants will be practising with partner work, without any musical accompaniment. This will give participants the ability to talk and keep their senses open to their partners as they work.

Contact Improvisation requires a lot of trust and demands that we overcome our fear of weight.

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Flow and Expansion in Movement

By bringing an awareness to our spines, we will use it as a roadmap to guide the body through movement in space, from floor to standing, and back down. Basic movement patterns will warm the body up and lead up to more complex sequencing and phrases, as we free the body and find a sense of flow and expansion in our movement.

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Drawing - Anchoring - Yielding

Playing with the idea of toning, pulling, pushing and anchoring in movement, this class will use these words as an impetus to find ownership and exactitude within improvisational tasks; mindfully shifting the body through different states in movement quality.

Contact Improvisation

Contact improvisation is the basis of communication and community building.

Shintaro will guide a class on how to use this tools. Participants will be practising with partner work, without any musical accompaniment. This will give participants the ability to talk and keep their senses open to their partners as they work.

Contact Improvisation requires a lot of trust and demands that we overcome our fear of weight.

Image by Matron

Contact Improvisation

Contact improvisation is the basis of communication and community building.

Shintaro will guide a class on how to use this tools. Participants will be practising with partner work, without any musical accompaniment. This will give participants the ability to talk and keep their senses open to their partners as they work.

Contact Improvisation requires a lot of trust and demands that we overcome our fear of weight.

Image by Matron

Circularity in Motion

This class will consist of a number of progressive exercises that aims to explore connections and better energy transfer within the body, using the concept of circularity.

This workshop targets participants aged 13 and above, with a Beginner - Intermediate Level.

An Anatomical & Sensory Approach

The approach of the class is to realise the tactility of the body within our anatomical capacity.

We will begin with a guided improvisation section, adopting a microscopic approach with the goal of detection - to find an awareness and relate and connect with our body. We will then tap on this renewed consciousness and apply it through the learning of some set movements towards the end of the class.

This class is recommended to those 17 years old and above with some prior dance training.

Image by Joie Koo