My pedagogical
approach
to dance is mainly shaped by my long experience in
teaching Instant
Composition, a training that focuses on the development
of the dancer's technical and compositional skills as
tools to compose instantly by improvising.
Since 2004
I also give workshops in Skinner
Releasing Technique™, an approach to dance
that can be seen as an experiential practice of kinaesthetic
training that is based on the power of poetic imagery
as a key to deeper kinaesthetic experience of movement.
Both approaches - Instant Composition and Skinner Releasing
Technique™ can be practised independently as self-contained
modes of dance training. At the same time they can complement
and feed each other in their specific ways of developing
and training the physical body/mind as well as opening
the imagination and creative spirit.
In addition to Instant Composition and Skinner Releasing
Technique™ I teach classes in Explorative
Anatomy, Movement Research, Dance Technique, Composition
and Methods for Teaching Dance and Movement.
In any teaching situation my interest
lies in creating a frame in which students learn to
develop their own way of working with the proposed tools,
and cultivating their individual language of dance rather
than learning a specific style or aesthetic.
