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Teacher / supervisor
Samuel Minguillon                                          

Period Duration
Block 3, 7 Weeks

Study Load
39 hours

Competencies
1,2,3,4

Summary
During this class we draw attention to tools and mechanisms that are required in the current contemporary dance scene, from the subtle basic principles of floorwork to discovering a personal identity and creating and/ or memorising choreographic material.
Students are invited to a space where exploration meets intention and experimentation becomes composition.
At the end of this course, students will have a greater comprehension of how to safely but dynamically approach floorwork, challenge their physical abilities, develop connections  while working in ensembles, research and play with Samuel Minguillon’s In/OuT movement vocabulary.

CONTENT & DESIGN OF CLAS
This work asks the students to allow themselves to redefine their expectations, their abilities, their skills, their boundaries and limitations. To get to discover, explore and develop their personal capabilities through individual work but also learn how to relate, grow, motivate and be inspired amongst the others, as part of a group.

The classes will consist of:

-Stripping movement down to basics; to examine where we are, where we want to arrive and how we manage to get there
-Keeping focus on technical aspects of contemporary floorwork while engaging in individual artistic needs 
-Improvisation; we use it as an investigative and playful tool to recognise habitual patterns, personal style and kinaesthetic awareness
- Exploring falling, rolling and sliding mechanisms in diagonals and short sequences
- Providing tools for creative process and guidance in instant composition 
- Investigating and adapting elements of S.Minguillon’s work through personal material

Learning goals
Students:

• Can gain understanding and confidence in developing personal movement 
• Expand clarity in coordination, spatial awareness and sense of direction
• Develop skills for memorising material and dancing in ensemble sequences
• Learn how to use, transfer and transform dynamics and qualities of movement
• Create an individual connection with musicality and how it can add texture to and transform movement 
• Develop and understand the connections between anatomical points (spine, sitting bones, tail bone, heels, etc) and their effect in both the creative process and safe practice of acrobatic skills

Working Methods Used
Training, Improvisation, Personal exploration and interpretation, observation, peer feedback, reflection

References

Study Material
Notebook, pencil /pen
Mobile phone, for recording oneself

Assessment
Feedback in studio
Self-Reflection
Evaluation on how suggestions/ corrections are applied