Human Animal

Workshop Content

1. Acrobatics:

Pattern Learning: Progressive patterns for developing a broad vocabulary and understanding the fundamentals of acrobatics.

Task Exploration: Expanding previously specific given patterns and sequences toward exploration of potential variations. Understanding our current affordances in relation to different acrobatic movements and how we can enhance learning through exploratory behavior.

2. Improvisation:

Task Based Learning (Constraint Led Approach) - is a form of exploration in which the learner engages with different tasks in order to learn and discover a variety of motor behaviours. Such practice gives space for the learner to explore, to test and speculate. To actively learn through problem solving and not solely by imitation. Task based exploration is at the foundation of our practice and it is what drives creativity and lays the ground for developing flexibility and adaptability of behaviour. 

3. Know The Body :

Somatic Practice: Developing better awareness and learning how to regulate our internal state through mindful movement.

Efficient Configurations: Learning how to organise ourselves in efficient configurations. 

 Conditioning: How can we develop the physical capacities required to make acrobatic movements accessible through whole-body, multi-joint, multi-plane movement? This includes work with ourselves, tools, and others.

4. Movement Scenarios & Games:

Acrobatics is not just for individual display of fitness and vitality. Acrobatics can be used to engage with our environment, solving various self-imposed or spontaneously emerging problems. Through games, using tools, and engaging in body-to-body practice, we learn how to become adaptable and creative movers.