Ongoing training and explorational workshops continue to this day. > The workshops combines physho-physical training methods and Asian shamanistic trance practices. > The workshops incorporates a training methodology that aims to develop spontaneity, letting the body find its own individual language in psycho-physical expression. > Ultimately the dance becomes the expression of the body as it finds itself and its own movement. > This is a process to return to the body to the creative energy that inspires movement. > Rather than aspiring to an aesthetic ideal, the dancer attempts to expose elements of life through exploring the most fundamental physical and psychological elements.

In 2022 workshops will take specific focus on ideas and concepts to dance/move,ent explorations

The Desert Within: – NEXT WORKSHOP YET TO BE ANNOUNCED

"The desert grows, and woe to him who conceals the desert within him..." – Friedrich Nietzsche "Dithyrambs of Dionysus"
This workshop will from the structure of 'The Desert Within' workshop in Delhi held a week before. Melaka Workshop Pod will take its own explorative stream within the sites of Melaka including at Pulau Besar. This workshop will also incorporate trance elements with Agus Riyanto & Agung Gunawan. The Desert as a metaphor for creative openess. The Desert Within is a workshop for a radical integration. An integration of the inner and the outer, psycho-emotional realms to the kinesthetics.
This is a workshop of a desert of the senses, of the spirit, of faith, and destitute. If there is no creativity or acceptance of one’s limits, the relationship can end. The relationship between dancer and the spectator to create enchantment within a certain void - of water, of fertility
and life. With rain, the desert blossoms overnight– a fleeting moment, a display of an illusive enchantment.
This is part of a series of experimentations in the reciprocal reposition of the interior to the exterior for kinesthetic aesthetics. In this extended class we shall begin with psychophysical exercises using different levels of trance to evoke movements that comes from the interior – states of crisis.

On-going Workshops (text Tony on 0412 019 876)

Every Saturday, 10am to 12 noon

Classes will incorporating continuing training methodologies, experimentation and improvsation.
General focus includes the themes of 'effortless movements', 'quietitude' and 'stillness' and introducing different level of trance focuses. The common thread to shamanism would be the focus on trance states in movement aesthetics. The classes are ongoing and autonomous with your own style of physicality. We experiment different ideas and often end the class with a session of improvisation within a structured space.

on-going classes