Bettina Nauhaus workshop 2

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20 & 21 March 2010

Weekend Workshop with Bettina Neuhaus

In this workshop we develop a more conscious use of our relationship to gravity as a doorway into dancing and composing instantly.

Exploring the different textures of our body (like skin, flesh and bones) and their specific qualities while moving, we establish a finer sense for our physical mass in a dynamic situation.

As we play with our relationship to the floor and later with a partner we experience the weight of the different body parts in passivity and activity.

Investigating various ways of going more with “gravity” or with “levity” becomes a compelling dynamic game that leads to surprising ways of dancing. At the same time our relationship to space, time and other dancers gains more clarity.

Being more aware of how gravity combs continuously through the whole body creates a ground from which our imagination and dance can move with freedom, coherence and unexpected possibilities into the unknown.

Based on these investigations we enter improvisations where we perceive, create and compose at the same time.

Dates: 20 & 21 March 2010

Schedule: 11h00 -17:h00

Venue: The Art Laboratory, Ottho Heldringstraat 3, Amsterdam

Fee: €100

Please sign up before 10 March 2010!

Info & sign up: info@bettinaneuhaus.com

A registration can be done by e-mail in combination with the payment of the full fee to the following account: 6241120 at ING Amsterdam, t.a.v. Bettina Neuhaus, Jan-Pieter-Heijestraat 162, 1054 ML Amsterdam.

Please mark your transfer with “ROOTS TO FLY 2010”.

In case of cancellation the following fee will be charged: before 14th March: € 30€, at a later moment: the full fee.

Bettina Neuhaus

is a dance artist and teacher. She studied music and movement at the Folkwang Hochschule for Music, Dance and Theatre in Essen/Germany, dance at the Theatreschool in Amsterdam and Skinner Releasing Technique™ at the University of Washington led by Joan Skinner. In 2004 she qualified as certified Skinner Releasing Teacher.

Bettina’s artistic and pedagogic work focuses mainly on Improvisation as a valid way of performing. She performs her own pieces and works as improviser with other dancers, musicians, light designers and video artists in Europe and the United States.

Bettina teaches Instant Composition and Skinner Releasing Technique™ at different schools, companies and festivals in Europe, the U.S. and Latin America.

Over the past 15 years she has directed projects for professional and non-professional dancers, actors, musicians, designers, architects, social workers, young people, children and elder people.

www.bettinaneuhaus.com