In The Moment - a workshop by Benno Voorham

In this workshop the focus will be on the instant compositional side of
improvisation. Developing skills and viewpoints that help us to navigate
and make choices in improvisational scores. Contact improvisation will
be a common ground to interact and play with each other.
Articulation and playfulness are two keywords for this workshop in
which we will dance for and with each other. Dances in which we can
expect to be in physical contact at any moment and at the same time
keeping an awareness of ones own choices and directions in
improvising.

This workshop will provide a playground for those who are interested in
exploring territories in which we use our creative potential in dances that
are created in the here and now, the present moment of an improvisation.
In my work as a dance maker and improviser I am interested to explore the crossroads between dance, contact improvisation and theatre. Using the potential of the human body to tell stories through movement in a non-literal way. In this workshop we will play with different scores to create dances in which we use our imagination and creative potential. We will spend time to tune our bodies in movement, to develop a sense for ‘being in the moment’ from where we will dive into the realm of improvisation.

Benno Voorham is an international performer, choreographer and
teacher from the Netherlands, living in Stockholm/Sweden since 1995.
Since his graduation in 1986 from the School for New Dance Development
in Amsterdam he has worked internationally as an independent dance-
artist, directing his own work as well as collaborating with others in both
set and improvised pieces. Together with Sybrig Dokter he started LAVA-
Dansproduktion, an international operating association for dance, based in
Stockholm.

He is an acclaimed international teacher of Contact Improvisation and
Compositional Improvisation. In both his teaching and performance work,
he is interested in exploring the creative and narrative potentials of the
human body. During the last years he has worked with integrating the use
of video in performance.

https://bennovoorham.com

Photo: Nadja Voorham