Forsythe Improvisation Workshop

at Jan Fabre's Troubleyn Laboratorium in Antewerpen

January 04-17. 2010

The two week workshop focuses on the Improvisational Technologies that William Forsythe, the Ballet Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company developed and used to create their works.

This course gives you a chance to learn and work with these methods to distill your knowledge into a higher quality of dance and to become a more articulate and graceful performer.

These two weeks offer a period of study, practice and research with the possibility of a creation including those participants that excel.

At the beginning we'll explore simple ideas that result in complex movements and better your sense of coordination. We will learn Improvisational Modalities; tools such as folding, bridging, extrusions, brushing, point-point-line, isometries, shearing and many more. Through examining the components of movement (dynamics, momentum, direction, inclination, velocity, rhythm, etc. ) we will learn to use their influences and how to construct them in any number of choreographic combinations.

The workshop will bring you to an awareness in which your body does the thinking, allowing you to move very fast, yet without violence and still remain articulate and generous with your movements.

The main benefit of this type of improvisation is to reach a fluid state of creativity, where you can make split-second decisions while in movement, teaching you to retain their qualities and to use them in your dancing or choreographic practice.

This workshop offers a great setting where ideas can flow in a charged environment, creating work that is fresh, inspired and inspiring.
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Different bodies leave different traces in space and grace has little to do with weight or shape.
In my opinion grace comes from the connectedness of the body and mind and their ability to bring movement into form and flow creating not only shapes in space but composition and harmony at a particular speed and for a particular time.
To create a clear, crystallized version of any artistic vision you'll need to start with the creation of a certain language. To build up that language is easier with the use of this kind of improvisation.

The two week workshop is 360 Euros per person.
The course has a maximum of 20 places.
Please send your registration before 20.12.2009 to: tamas@tamasmoricz.com