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Collective Summer Workshop

August 23-27 Collective workshop Oregelpark

Dance teachers – Katie Duck and Vincent Cacialano

Music teacher –Jos van der Kooy

Music for the dance classes Alfredo Genovesi

The Collective workshop has been held in Amsterdam in the last week of August since 1995 by Katie Duck in response to post modern dance notions about liberating dancers from music. This workshop was set up to encourage dancers and musicians to use improvisation as a means to establish new ways to collaborate. The collective workshop has been held at the Orgelpark church organ concert hall in Amsterdam since 2007 with a focus on the church organ as an improvisation instrument.

The dancers are asked to be musicians in how they use their choreographic skills as they improvise. The musicians are asked to consider the performative options in space as they improvise. Both are placed in a position so that they create a space for music composition to be noticed by the presence of the dancers in a unique and powerful way.

This is an unusual opportunity for dancers to experience the grand levels of the four church organs in the Orgelpark concert hall and for the organ students and musicians studying with Jos van der Kooy to challenge the physicality and presence of their improvisations toward music compositions.

The workshop is five days, four hours per day with lessons and improvisation sessions. The schedule for this workshop divides the dancers and musicians for lessons in the first part of the day and then brings them together in the second period of day for improvisation sessions. Additionally, there are open improvisation sessions held in the evenings Monday and Tuesday, a rehearsal in the evneing Wednesday and a performance with Duck Projects, Jos van der Kooy and the workshp participants Thursday in the Orgelpark concert hall.

The collective workshop can accept 20 dancers and six musicians. Cost 150 euros.

Schedule for the collective workshop

Monday to Thursday August 23-26

13:00-14:30 Music lessons up stairs with Jos van der Kooy. Dance lessons down stairs with Katie Duck, Vincent Cacialano and Alfredo Genovesi.

14:30-15:00 break

15:00-17:00 Improvisation sessions with feedback up stairs with musicians, dancers and teachers together.

Friday August 27

10:00-13:00 Improvisation sessions with feedback up stairs with musicians, dancers and teachers together

13:00-14:00 goodbye drink in the Orgelpark bar

Participants of the improvisation summer course can attend this workshop at half price.

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