july 2017, from 17th to 24th
LABAN in the AIR
In this workshop we will work with our potential to move from an
authentic resource and our connection with our environment. Through
different principles of the Laban/Bartenieff System we will explore our
Moving Self in dance; as Dynamic Alignment, Core Support, Developmental
Patterning and Rotation. Each concept will be presented through simple
experiential movement platforms that awaken the body’s attention to its
functional anatomy and it’s presence in space. We will work with
awareness to the different categories body, effort, shape and space.
In the second half of the workshop we will investigate our personal
dance in relation to inner experience, contact to nature and in contact
with other dancers. This will involve shared partner dances (Contact
Improvisation), witnessing each other in authentic dances (Authentic
Movement) and building a personal and meaningful solo in contact with
the stunning surrounding of water, earth, mountains, stars, moon and
sun. The workshop will be balanced in exertive and recuperative parts.
The joy of moving, our authentic ways of dancing, contact with what is
surrounding us and who is surrounding us will be important keystones in
this work. They will shape the unique connections with our inner and
outer landscape in dance. This workshop is open to people of all levels
in dance.
Katharina Conradi
Choreographer, teacher of dance, somatic coach and dance therapist.
Master in Dance Therapy and Movement Analysis.
Working at the University of Fine Arts in Amsterdam and Rotterdam as teacher of creative process, composition, analyses of Laban movement and Release Technique.
As a therapist she is working in her own practice with people with diverse problems. Her main concern is to use the creative process as a source of growth.
Her company Fresh Tracks produces dance films and performances. Her recent film Horizon is been prized in Cinedans 2014
