Discovery through Dance: Contemporary Dance Workshops
In each session, we will explore individual and group movement facilitated through imaginative instructions based on a specific theme. We consider the body as a site of complex relationships between sensation, emotion, memory and creativity, and will encourage you to inhabit your body in movement through those various layers.
Using contemporary dance technique, improvisational tasks and rhythmical explorations, this workshop series will help you connect to your body awareness, physical stamina and flexibility, and confidence in movement.
Who is this course for?
Discovery through Dance is for anyone with a curiosity to explore their bodies through movement, ranging from people with dance/movement experience to beginners.
What can I expect?
You can expect to explore set dance sequences to music, develop your own ideas in movement and share a creative embodied space with other.
Will I need any equipment or materials?
You will need comfortable clothing which allows you to move freely.
Need to Know
You will learn
- Embodied movement practices which encourage body awareness
- Rhythmical dance explorations
- Improvisational techniques which allow you to discover your uniqueness in movement
- Sharing creative movement with others
- Improved flexibility and stamina
Meet the Tutor
Klaudia Wittmann
Klaudia Wittmann is a dance artist, choreographer and movement psychotherapist. She is the co-founder and artistic director of KWAM Collective, an artist-led group conducting multi-disciplinary artistic projects by bringing together dance, theatre, digital art, film and therapeutic bodily practices.
Klaudia trained in the UK at London Studio Centre (UAL) and Jasmin Vardomin’s JV2, specialising in contemporary dance and physical theatre. She later qualified as a dance movement psychotherapist from Goldsmiths University. She has performed for theatre, film and performance nationally and internationally, including amongst others Balbir Singh, Lara Ritosa-Roberts, Moxie Brawl, Acrojou, Turner Contemporary, Tate Modern and Sadler’s Wells. She has extensive experience in teaching and mentoring in cultural and educational settings, including Sound and Music, Girne American University of Cyprus, London Studio Centre, and Experiment 6.
Her latest work, KWAM Collective’s experimental movement film SOMA (2022), which was supported by East London Dance, ECHO, Redbridge Drama Centre and the Arts Council England, explores a contemporary myth of the genesis of the human body.
Course Overview
Week 1
Introspection: Gathering information about our body
Week 2
Communication: Sharing movement
Week 3
Rhythm: Exploring one’s own groove
Week 4
Joy: Finding playfulness
Week 5
Community: Bringing ideas together
Week 6
Connection in body and mind
Dates and Times
Discovery through Dance: Contemporary Dance Workshops
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