Following the research of my latest performance project Visible Undercurrent, we will look at the influences of dance-artists and choreographers, that developed their “language” in the early 1990s in New York, with a big influence on the European dance scene through teaching at the SNDO Amsterdam and EDDC Arnhem. The development of somatic practices for performance, improvisation and choreographic strategies will be explored as we meet the work of Eva Karczag, Jennifer Monson, Stephanie Skura and Mary Overlie (a.o.). In the line of my workshop “history in practice” the course will combine dancing, watching, reading, talking and dancing.
Confronting your own interest in dancing and dance-making with examples from the recent past will widen your personal foundation of possibilities and strengthen courage to continue to develop your own “language” in the present.