INTERMEDIATE PROGRAM 1 - WEEK 4 (29 July - 2 August 2024)

Ballet technique class for contemporary dancers with Roman Van Houtven
This ballet class is designed for dancers who have gained some experience in ballet in the past and have a basic understanding of its movement vocabulary, technique and musicality. Throughout the week we will revisit the basic principles of ballet technique and explore how those can be applied to the virtuosic contemporary dancer’s body. We will work on basic anatomy, release, isolation of joints, musicality and efficiently moving our bodies through space. Through all of this, we’ll try to establish how all these elements can strengthen a dancer’s awareness to themselves and how to move through space in a three-dimensional way, while interacting with others.
Biography Roman Van Houtven>>

Yoga class with Cassandre Cantillon
Designed as a moving meditation, Vinyasa yoga is a dynamic and fluid style of yoga that emphasizes on the synchronization of movement and breath with a sequence of poses.
Through the class, we’ll explore progressive asanas sequences, mobility principles, breathwork exercices and meditation tools.
The aim is to offer a physical and mental anchoring point while developing strength, functional flexibility, balance and ultimately foster a sense of quietness to the mind.
Biography Cassandre Cantillon>>

Workshop Rosas Repertory 'Drumming' with Clinton Stringer
Drumming is based on the music of the minimalist composer Steve Reich. The piece is a complex formal construction using a single basic phrase which is transformed in many ways. In the workshop, I will teach the phrase material and we will explore some of the principles which were used to construct it. The students will then make their own transformations of the phrase following the ideas used during the creation. In this way, we will work with retrograde, phase shifts and partnering all starting from the same basic phrase but resulting in new and varied transformations.
Biography Clinton Stringer >>