Thi Mai Nguyen

I see you

You make the difference by who you are. How much you decide to give by your presence to the other people around you and to the scene. By being there. That’s a simple challenge but never ending. We’ll begin with a warm-up of each body part, following a focus on qualities of movements.

Three challenges are introduced during the course:
– How to distribute our energy throughout a set of movements, technically very challenging.
– When we retain or let go of our body talk, switch from a quality of body to another.
– How to be fully involved in the doing instead of merely reproducing forms.

We’ll experience the “repetition” exercise, from the acting technique of Sandford Meisner, that will be later confronted with the dance. We will see how each movement is significant, and we will take care to be fully in the present moment while dancing.

Thi Mai Nguyen’s biography:

Thi-Mai studied classical and contemporary dance at the CNSM in Paris from 1995 to 1999 where she approached different repertoires such as Angelin Preljocaj, Jean Claude Brumachon, Rui Horta. She studied at P.A.R.T.S for a year and a half then joined the choreographer Wim Vandekeybus at Ultima Vez from 2002 to 2012. She has performed in Blush, Puur, Spiegel, Radical Wrong, Oedipe and in the films Blush and HERE AFTER. She works with Michèle Anne De Mey on the revival of the piece Sinfonia Eroïca. In 2012, she joined the director James Thiérrée for Tabac Rouge and La Grenouille avait raison. Thi-Mai assisted James Thiérrée for his project Frôlons at the Opéra Garnier in May 2018, for 45 dancers, then on his new creation ROOM. She works with Vania Vaneau on her new creation Héliosfera. Thi mai worked as a choreographer on the movie “La Vérité” by Hirokazu Kore-Eda, “Toutes pour une” de Houda Benyamina. Thi mai studied the Sanford Meisner technique in 2012 with Larry Silverberg, then with Scott Williams.

On October 1st 2018, ETNA, Thi-Mai Nguyen’s first solo received the Critics Prize for the best dance show in Belgium. Thi-Mai made her second solo in 2021, PREMISSE at the MARNI theater, Étoile du nord in Paris. Her last creation STAND BY was born in March 2022 at the Théâtre la Balsamine then MARNI theater.

Dates and times:
October 14-18
14:30 – 18:30

Price:
50 € registration fee
200 € total

Package deal:
In the same week Shannon Cooney is teaching in the afternoons. You get a 15% discount for registering to both workshops.