DanceAbility ®
The 30-hour DanceAbility® Intensive Workshop is designed to introduce participants to the contemporary dance practice of the DanceAbility® method, its philosophy, principles and five exercise themes through demonstrations and studio practice as well as practical teaching information.
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danceability@tanzenohnegrenzen.org
DanceAbility® is an inclusive dance form that uses improvisation as its foundation and allows all people to integrate safely by emphasizing expression over function. DanceAbility® has many applications that can be used in dance and theater practice, in many arts therapies and in inclusion practice in general.
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DanceAbility® Intensive Workshop
Participants learn how inclusion in dance can succeed for people with different disabilities. The philosophy of Danceability is based on principles such as consent, safety and supportive guidance. We also develop improvisational structures that enable people with and without disabilities to dance together.
In the workshop we deal with five central themes: Action and reaction, leading and following, number work, physicality and touch, and creative variations.
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Course & Certification
Participants in this DanceAbility® Intensive Workshop receive a certificate for completing 30 hours of practical work with the DanceAbility® method.
Participation in the DanceAbility® Intensive Workshop does not lead to certification as a DanceAbility® teacher. The official license to use the DanceAbility® name is only granted to those who complete the 120-hour DanceAbility® Teacher Certification Course. For more information about copyright and other information, please contact us directly.
The five-day workshop includes 6 hours of instruction per day and a 30-minute break between the two sessions.
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Dates & Cost
Thursday, March 13, 14:00 am - 20:30 pm
Friday, March 14, 14:00 am - 20:30 pm
Thursday, March 20, 14:00 am - 20:30 pm
Saturday, March 22, 14:00 am - 20:30 pm
Sunday, March 23, 11:00 am - 5:30pm
Cost: EUR 300.00 (all 5 days)
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Connie Vanderakis
Connie Vandarakis, Master Trainer in the DanceAbility™ Method, has more than 30 years of experience as a university teacher and in administration in the field of dance. Connie Vandarakis is also an international disability consultant, ambassador for the Zero Project in Vienna, Austria, and Managing Director of Movement Advocacy.
At the end of the workshops, participants who have completed the 30 hours receive a certificate of completion. This certificate gives them the license to use the DanceAbility principles and exercises in their own practice. We ask that they mention the original work - the DanceAbility method - when using the exercises.
Program
Workshop 1 / Action Response
This workshop promotes self-awareness of one's own movement and shows how to move in relation to others, in small groups and in ensemble work. The main theme is the understanding of cause and effect. Principles of sensation, relationship, time and design are developed in the exercises.
Workshop 2 / Numbers
This workshop demonstrates how a diverse number of participants moving together can promote inclusion. The focus of number exercises is to ensure inclusion while teaching composition. Working with numbers is both functional and creative in its process. First, it is a way to promote inclusion by creating groups within the exercises so that the information needed is present in each group. Second, number work is a way to teach composition. It reinforces the principles of sensation, relationship, time and design, and explores how to build community when cause and effect do not work directly.
Workshop 3 / Follow or Lead
The focus of Follow/Lead is on expanding opportunities to listen to each other. Another focus is on empowering people to lead or follow, and in both roles you need to know what the others in the group are doing. Through the use of interpretation and relativity, there are no wrong choices. Followers make choices to define their relationship with the leader. In the relationship between followership and leadership, a relationship of reciprocity is established. One supports the other by maintaining one's role as leader or follower. The core principle of interpreting is based on the statement: “Any human being can perform any movement, and any part of the body can both experience and express any emotion.” Alito Alessi Relativity and interpretation support expression and relationship for all people.
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Workshop 4 / Physicality and Touch
The focus on touch has several components, including the approach to touch, listening to physical contact, the issues of safety, practicality and creativity. Touch is an essential need for our individual development, communication, bonding and health. Safety is one of the most important elements of touch. Communication, reciprocity and consent are built into the structures of the exercises to ensure that people move together and make empowered choices individually and for all. Creativity is another element of physicality and touch. Physicality and touch facilitate communication and relationship through the feeling of touch, the feeling of movement, composition and design. Through the use of touch we create a wider range of movement possibilities.
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