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2021-9 Improvisation and Instant Composition
This 5 days workshop with master teacher Michael Schumacher, each session begins with exercises that explore relationships between thought, movement and presence in the immediate environment. By promoting a greater awareness of sensory input, the performer becomes better equipped to interact with their internal and external impulses.
The session continues with examples of both fixed and open structures in which the participants improvise with such elements as dance, music, text, and light. Through practice and theory, participants explore a process by which they collectively experience spontaneously created compositions.
Recently Michael was asked for Nederland Danstheater NDT1 to do a project at the museum in The Hague, see here for the article:
- Monday 5 July
- Tuesday 6 July
- Wednesday 7 July
- Thursday 8 July
- Friday 9 July
- Friday 9 July
Informal presentation of workshops given this week
- 11:00 – 14:00
- 11:00 – 14:00
- 11:00 – 14:00
- 11:00 – 14:00
- 11:00 – 14:00
- Friday 9 July
Informal presentation of workshops given this week
Price : € 185,-
Michael Schumacher
is a performing artist with roots in classical and modern dance. He has been a member of several groundbreaking companies, including Ballet Frankfurt, Twyla Tharp Dance, Feld Ballet, Pretty Ugly Dance Company, and Magpie Music Dance Company. As an independent artist, he has appeared in productions by Peter Sellars, William Forsythe, Dana Caspersen, Sylvie Guillem, Mark Haim, Paul Selwyn Norton, and Anouk van Dijk. Working as dancer, choreographer, and teacher, Michael has developed a unique approach to the discipline of improvisation. He has collaborated with many pioneering artists, including Han Bennink, Katie Duck, Jiří Kylián, Mary Oliver, Kirstie Simson, Alex Waterman and Jin Xing. In 2008, Michael was awarded both the Gouden Zwaan and the Jiří Kylián Ring, the first dancer/choreographer ever to receive the two awards at the same time. He resides in Amsterdam and gives workshops in movement analysis and improvisation worldwide.
