Classes offered periodically through out the year in the Attic Studio Amsterdam on Thursdays and Fridays at 16:00 to 18:00. Open to all bodies. Leads towards improvisation sessions.
Register in advance only: katieduckmail@katieduck.com
Katie Duck is an experimental performer, choreographer, and teacher who has incorporated themes of early human development—including movement patterns seen in babies—into her body classes. Her teaching often references developmental movement patterns, which include the ways babies naturally explore and gain control over their bodies.
-How babies roll, crawl, sit, stand, and walk, emphasising the natural intelligence of these movements.
-Encouraging adult dancers to return to instinctual and organic ways of moving.
-Spinal undulations, floor work, and crawling may be explored to reconnect with foundational motor development.
-Emphasising how babies learn through touch, sound, and internal sensation. These sensory processes help dancers, performers and anyone who is interested in becoming more attuned to the body.
-Includes improvisation and play, which mirrors how babies interact with the world—with curiosity and without pretence.
Encouraging participants to “listen” to their bodies as a baby would without imposed technique or expectations.
The aim is to re kindle a curiosity for discovering movement, question what motivates you to move and “why” you choose to go one direction or another in any given creative situation.
“Dance is fancy walking”
“We forget that we have a body once we reach adulthood. Before that, it was the first thing we remembered as we woke in the morning glee full and proud that we learned to step out of our beds. We remember we have a body, we are reminded we have a body, we take detours in order to re-discover daily we have a body”
“The agility we have to orientate ourselves in space it is a gift. As we move through space, the chemical rush we receive to the brain enhances our perception of “Body Body Body”.