Jos Baker

On Movement and Stillness.

The title is a lie, we cannot find stillness, though as we approach it different movement become more significant, the heartbeat, the digestion, the breath, the little movements that keep our balance. The warm up, is not just moving our bodies but preparing ourselves. The act of taking ourselves from where we are, to where we need to be. So often we engage in the thing we want to achieve without bringing ourselves and our desires there.

Paying close attention to our physical desires can be a powerful tool for movement creation, for developing new approaches and ways of moving.

This workshop will be largely improvisation based, using different approaches to finding detail and precision in movement and our approach to it. Looking at how certain movement can be highlighted and focused on by placing it in relationship to stillness.

Using elements of dance, theatre and meditation, we will look at how different mindsets and approaches can change our movement patterns, as well as how our movement patterns effect our thinking. For the creative process, for performance, for life.

Open to a range of experience levels.

Jos Baker’s biography:

Jos Baker is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, and founder of Trodden Dreams.
He started his dance training at the age of 7 with Oxford Youth Dance and then continued his formal education first at The Laban Center London and then at PARTS in Brussels.
From 2008 to 2014, Jos worked for Peeping Tom as a dancer, actor and collaborator, principally with the productions 32 Rue Vandenbranden , and A Louer . Since then he worked briefly for DV8 Physical Theatre on the production of John .
Jos’ choreographic work includes Put Out the Flame and The Smallest Little Thing commissioned by The Hong Kong Arts Festival.
His solo work includes Know it all , Of no fixed abode Creature Man Don’Tell Me . We were youth , Afla , Feedback , We were youth . Jos also directed and performed in Paris Fashion Week to promote Petit Bateau’s Cedric Charlier collection and has made numerous pieces with students in professional dance training.
On film Jos made several music videos and short films; as a dancer and choreographic assistant to Damien Jalet for Anima , a Thom Yorke project directed by Paul Thomas Andersson. He has also directed the short films The Hole , Shift and Put Out the Flame . Other screen work includes; Forgot to live by Ay Wing, and Let it Roll by Mustard Gas and Roses directed by Koen Mortier, and Biegga savkala duoddariid duohken lea soames by Elle Sofe Henrikseni, and movement direction for Violet Hour by St Claire and directed by
Tamsin Topolski. In addition to several commercials as both performer and movement director.
He also teaches a wide range of classes and workshops for professional dancers and dance students.

Dates and times:
April 28 – May 2
14:30 – 18:30

Price:
50 € registration fee
240 € total

Package deal:
In the same week Horacio Macuacua is teaching in the mornings. You get a 15% discount for registering to both workshops.