Let’s play with kinesthetic states. Can we train movement choices that arrive out of sensorial feedback? Combining improvisation with reactionary and perceptual training, (with some strength training thrown in to get sweaty and deepen skills) these classes are geared towards the professional dancer who is interested in training full body movement qualities through perceptual inquiry. We will work towards mapping the kinaesthetic body through sensory expansion. We will challenge our agility and reflexes. We will play with time and the detail of haptic qualities in movement. We will create explosions and listen to them resonate.

Target audience: Professional Dancers (Profitraining)

Class type: Solo Improvisation Techniques / Physical Conditioning

Growing out of Laura’s research into Affect, Push/Reach, biomechanics, and haptic states, she created the term ‘Kinesthetic State’ to identify states of movement and attention flow that evolve from the Kinesthetic / sensorial experience of deepening the felt sense of specific movement qualities. As a result ‘The Kinesthetic Body’ evolved into a dynamic training for professional dancers that focuses on a high level of physical (cardiovascular, strength, coordination) conditioning, skills in solo improvisation (choices about the dynamics of time, space, attention, presence, relational orientation, and intensities of activity in the body that change over time), while cumulating towards working with higher levels of not knowing or instability (gravity/balance, weight, momentum, dynamic changes in spatial relation or speed, reactivity) thereby building towards a certain level of physical and perceptual risk taking.

Evolving over years of research, Laura developed this class to fit the context of ‘profitraining,’  open classes for professional dancers from all disciplines who want a space to maintain a high level of physical conditioning and artistic practice. She has offered it at Tanz Plattform Rhein-Main/Mousonturm, Marameo Berlin, Quartier am Hafen / Tanzfabrik Köln, K3 Hamburg, Ein Tanzhaus Mannheim, Tanznetz Freiburg and 4fT Tanzplattform Leipzig.