Anouk van Dijk returns to New York!
Thank you for your interest in the inaugural Countertechnique Summer Solstice, from June 9 - 12.
After our annually sold out Winter Warming we dive deeper into Countertechnique with Summer Solstice!
This four-day mini-intensive offers a mid-year reboot: time and space to unfold the body, open up to new perspectives.
Our ever-changing bodies need different care and stimulation every single day — and in this workshop, we’ll explore how to sustain a positive, creative work ethic, and to accept varying, sometimes challenging, circumstances.
Learn more how space can be a creative partner, how awareness can be broken down into practical tasks, and how this can fuel both daily training and the creative process.
Dance your heart out, meet like-minded dance artists, and add fresh perspectives to your dancing.
Each day begins with a 2-hour Countertechnique class, followed by a Practical Tools session introducing a new focus daily. After lunch, we’ll bring these realisations into creation and performance, with as the special Summer Solstice focus two categories from the Countertechnique Toolbox: Space and Awareness.
Building on Anouk’s choreographic practice, we’ll explore different entry points into making and performing — combining tasks and emotional states, the imagined and what's in front of us, weaving improvisation into set composition. How can a simple idea grow into a rich, layered embodiment, and reveal layers of meaning?
Countertechnique Summer Solstice welcomes dance artists and senior dance students seeking inspiration to contribute to the creatve process, and keep dancing interesting while fostering a healthy, joyful work ethic. Be prepared to work proactively, think creatively, and perform at a high physical level.
10:00 am – 4:00 pm daily
Mark Morris Dance Center
3 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217-1415
$480
Please fill out all the required questions on this online registration form.
Any technical issues that you may have, please email workshops@countertechnique.com