CLASS DESCRIPTIONS WINTERWORKSHOP #3

Ballet with Lise Vachon
This ballet class provides the opportunity to explore qualitative elements that help develop suspension and volume through breath work. We will focus on using clear spatial directions from within the body and extending outward into the space. Expansion, weight shifting, grounding, and opening the gaze will be emphasized to achieve extension and lightness while jumping. Additionally, we will work with musicality as an active partner to highlight specific technical tools and movement qualities that are present in ballet and transferable to other dance forms.

Contemporary Dance with Youness Khoukhou
In this class, we will begin with a small section of floorwork as a warm-up, focusing on foundational principles of movement. We’ll then transition into short rhythmic phrases and structured movement sequences. Through these exercises, we’ll emphasize key elements such as rhythm, time suspension, and listening, and explore how to incorporate these concepts as essential parts of your movement.

Theatre with Kuno Bakker
The workshop will give you a taste of the theatre workshop taught at PARTS during the first and second years. It playfully explores how to work with text, how to use your body and voice to play with words and meaning, and how to approach a text from content, but also from rhythm and musicality. It is an invitation to find freedom and joy in theatre.

Contemporary Dance with Gabriel Schenker
Based on the work developed by the Brussels-based company ZOO/Thomas Hauert, as well as through my own practice, I will bring to this class a series of practices, tasks, and exercises aimed at challenging symmetric coordination and habitual movement patterns.

Yoga with Niloufar Shahisavandi
This workshop offers an opportunity to revisit the foundations of various asanas and their key actions. The goal is to help participants develop a deeper physical and mental understanding of the asanas and their effects on the body, mind, and soul, especially during the cold and dark winter months. Participants are encouraged to share their interests and questions during the workshop to help adapt the practice to their individual needs.

Music Analysis with Mattijs Van Damme
During the upcoming session, we aim to set up a deep listening practice and to trigger a profound feeling for graphic music notation, which gains personal value and facilitates communication and understanding of diverse musical phenomena and experiences. We focus on works that nourish listeners and dancers, compositions that sharpen the ear and mind, by such composers as Ph. de Vitry, J.S. Bach, Th. De Mey, A. Webern, G. Ligeti, and others.