This Indulge the movement -course is built around specific tasks to guide your dance and keep you open to impulses from within and the shared space around you.
During this course the dance artist Katri Soini guides you through exercises where we explore and express different ways of sensing and perceiving, using these experiences to inspire movement. You are encouraged to interpret the exercises in your own way and let your personal perspective shape your dance. We will explore how our attention can be focused, shifted and released.
The course’s improvisational tasks draw on concrete anatomical observations, imagination, sensory awareness and personal sensations. Movement may also be inspired by sound, including your own voice, and music. During the course, we will work individually, in pairs and in groups. While we share the same space and activities, each of us will begin from our own unique starting point.
Katri Soini (b. 1965) is a freelance dancer and dance teacher with a career spanning nearly four decades. Since graduating with an MA in Dance from the Theatre Academy in 1987, she has collaborated with numerous choreographers and performed extensively in Finland and internationally. Katri has taught contemporary dance at dance schools, festivals, companies and organisations across the field. She has received the five-year artist grant from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) four times and is currently working under a three-year grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
Indulge the Movement – Contemporary Dance for All courses are mainly instructed by the choreographers and performers of Zodiak's previous, current and upcoming season's performances. Indulge the Movement courses are suitable for everyone, and you can join even without any prior dance experience. The classes focus on motion and movement while also offering an opportunity to explore various dance practices through alternating instructors.
All you need are comfortable clothes suitable for movement and a water bottle. During the classes, we dance barefoot or with socks. The courses are held in Finnish and/or English according to the needs of the participants.
