Freedom In Movement
Freedom in movement is a concept that I created based on my own experience. It is inspired by different training approaches from the field of dance and movement theatre. It is constantly evolving and growing with me as I continue to learn and change over time.
It is intended to lead participants to move more consciously through working with mindfulness in the body without pressure on performance or aesthetics. Much more important is authenticity and the ability to notice the feelings and impulses in the body, the space, oneself and the other people in it. Such movement work with the body allows participants to explore their possibilities and limits in a physical and psychological sense in relation to themselves or in movement interaction with other people. It offers space for a different functioning of the mind than we are used to in everyday life, for being in flow and connecting with our own inner world and deeper experience.
I most often use the form of open classes or workshops, which are structured to allow participants the opportunity to relax, play, explore either solo or in contact with other participants through a variety of tasks and movement games. Therefore, no previous dance experience is necessary to participate. For people with dance experience, the approach offers an opportunity to become more present and aware of their movement patterns or tendencies and to consciously change or develop them.
Classes begin by attuning to one's breath and body using imagery and touch, which are very powerful and effective tools for becoming present in one's body and space-time. Exercises focused in this way appear regularly in different variations throughout the classes. Before we focus on a particular class or workshop topic, we get the energy in the body flowing with warm-up exercises.
Within the focus of the lessons I work with different qualities and dimensions of movement in the form of movement games, improvisational exercises in which I(we) work with elements such as rhythm, coordination, space and principles from contemporary dance. The aim of the exercises is to acquire "tools" with which to improvise individually or in pairs or groups.
Classes and workshops sometimes include technical exercises that lead to physiologically correct movement and the development of movement vocabulary. However, freedom is important to me (as the title suggests) and I try to guide people to approach technical exercises with respect to their capabilities and the individual physiology of their body and learn through it to know more about its limits, abilities and dispositions.
One part of the class is improvisation in the dark (if conditions allow), which creates a safe and intimate space in which everyone can feel what they have experienced and let the effects of the movement reverberate within them at the end.
In my classes and workshops I strive to create a safe space and conditions in which it is possible to be authentic, to experiment, to explore the unexplored, to make mistakes, to be vulnerable, to let go in movement and in the body. All without internal or external judgement. When we quiet down and listen, the body itself will bring us to the right place.
