Skinner Releasing: Class 4-6

Workshop

Date:

Location: Bern

This weekend covers SRT classes 4-6 of the Introductory Level and proposes imagery and releasing principles evolving from earlier classes.  Therefore participants benefit if they have experienced SRT classes 1-3. For those with an extended SRT practice it is an opportunity to return to the basics and deepen their practice. Be welcome!

Skinner Releasing Technique is an integrative and poetic approach to movement, dance and creative process developed by American dance artist Joan Skinner (1924-2021).
It stimulates the process of letting go of unnecessary tension, releasing new possibilities in how we perceive and how we dance. Poetic imagery and hands-on studies facilitate deep and more nuanced kinaesthetic experience of movement.
Noticing as a first step for change and allowing movement to happen are key to this practice that emphazises effortlessness, multi-directional alignment, depth, presence and freedom in movement and stillness.
Skills and artistic sensitivity acquired during the course open up new possibilities for training, creative processes, performance contexts and everyday life.

Description in German here
Flyer in German here

Schedule: Sat 26 April: 11:00-17:30 (with lunch break)
Sun 27 April: 13:30 -17:30
Place: akar Studio, Maulbeerstrasse 8, 3011 Bern
Teaching language: English
Normal price: CHF 200,-
Artists, people with low-income, students: CHF 160,-
Booking: Please send a binding registrations by April 1, 2025 at the latest to: kurse@akardance.ch

SRT:
Joan Skinner (1924-2021) created a comprehensive, progressive pedagogy that is taught at three levels: Introductory (for all those coming to the technique for the first time), Ongoing (intermediate) and Advanced.
The SRT Introductory Level comprises 15 carefully crafted classes, of which this introductory weekend covers classes 1-3. Participants are introduced to some of the basic SRT principles.

With the experience of SRT classes 1-6 participants can join in the Summer Intensive Opening into New Territories - Skinner Releasing as a doorway into Making Dances at akar Studio 21 – 25 July 2025.
This week proposes later material of the SRT Introductory Level (e.g. SRT classes 6-10) and combines SRT with improvisational work and Instant Composition. Read more

© Photo: Patrick Beelaert

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