BEGINNERS PROGRAMME - WEEK 5

Iyengar yoga with Stéphane Bourhis

In our Yoga practice following the Iyengar® methodology, we will focus and explore precision, alignments, external and internal geometry of the body in several groups of yoga postures. The body is the starting point, the consciousness is the terminal point and the process between those two points is the reading of the body.

Stéphane Bourhis (FR)

Stéphane Bourhis is a professional dancer. He started his career at the Lucerner Ballet and worked as a soloist dancer in the Béjart Ballet Lausanne both in Switzerland. Stéphane practices Iyengar Yoga since 2008 and he has been certified since 2013. He's teaching Iyengar® yoga at P.A.R.T.S., in primary schools and in the Iyengar Yoga Centre of Brussels. He constantly learns, researches and deepens his knowledge in relation to Iyengar® yoga. Besides that, he regularly travels to India where he trains with the Iyengar Family.

Contemporary technique class with Jason Respilieux

Redefining Technique Class
We will give a new meaning to ‘technique’, asking ourselves: What is my body able to do? How far can I go? Can I trust myself and others? The class is made so to have an understanding and awareness of one's personal body and what surrounds us. Through the senses, individually and together, we will apprehend task oriented exercises and improvisational guidelines;

- So to become aware of what one's body potential is and therefore seize any opportunities which are present continuously in all of us.

- So to allow oneself to listen and act upon the essence of one's thoughts, intuitions and surrounding.

Jason Respilieux (BE)

Jason Respilieux (born in Brussels, BE) studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Brussels, Codarts in Rotterdam and graduated from P.A.R.T.S in 2014. Jason has collaborated and danced with/for several choreographers, including Salva Sanchis (Islands project), Ted Stoffer, Claire Croizé (Evol), Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker (A Love Supreme / The Six Brandenburg Concertos / Dark Red Project). Simultaneously he is a dance teacher, an advisor for performances and a mentor for students within the dance community. Respilieux also starts to make his own work. He seeks the moving body within the multidisciplinarity and therefore collaborates with artists from other art fields (film maker/composer/other choreographer...).

Project workshop with Cassiel Gaube

The Dynamic Body Origami Class
This class will focus on our ability to get closer to the floor and to then move along its surface – an area of dancing commonly referred to as floorwork. We will carefully examine the basic action patterns that allow us to do so – squatting, crawling, walking on all fours, rolling ... – and assess which ways of implementing these patterns are efficient and sustainable – and which aren’t. We will then learn to weave these basic action patterns into complex ways of moving closer, along and away from the ground surface. I will teach moves coming from two different techniques : Flying Low and B-Boying. We will look at the specificities of each of these techniques and see how they complement each other in activating the rich possibilities of the floorwork landscape. By analogy, I propose to think of this work as a Dynamic Body Origami class. Literally, origami is the Japanese art of folding paper. We will approach Flying Low and B-boying as techniques of dynamically folding bodies in increasingly sophisticated patterns, giving rise, for our greatest joy, to very diverse ways of moving closer, along and away from the floor.

Cassiel Gaube (BE)

Cassiel Gaube is a dancer and choreographer, graduated from the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) in Brussels. He is developing his choreographic work at the intersection of contemporary dance and Hip hop & Clubbing dances. He sees this undertaking as the work of sensibly navigating these buoyant ecosystems of practices, of experimenting with the forms which inhabit these and of imagining new ones. In 2019, Cassiel Gaube created the solo Farmer Train Swirl – Étude, an embodied and subjective exploration of the field of House dance. He has since then performed the work in various festivals & theatres internationally. As a maker, he has collaborated with the record label Ensemble, as well as with the choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
He is associated artist to La Ménagerie de Verre, in Paris, for the years 2019 & 2020. He is currently creating a new work, entitled Soirée d’études, which will prolong and expand his research on House dance.