August 24 - 4 September

David Hernandez

SERIOUS PLAY – Improvisation Practice

Bitte beachten: This is a two-week workshop. Preference will be given to participants who register for the full two weeks, as this allows for a deeper and more immersive experience. If you have previously completed a one-week workshop with David Hernandez, you may register to attend the second week only. We will be building depth and continuity in the work. If you wish to participate in the second week only, please email info@tictacartcentre.com with details of your previous workshop experience with David.

Diving into a daily practice centred around improvisation as spontaneous composition and performance and the concerns connected to improvising. Exploring methods, honing skills, diving deep with playfulness – connecting to the senses and how they nourish us in improvisation. Considering readability and collaboration- performing practice, practicing performing, scoring, and free wheeling. It is a daily rigorous but fun work in order to gain experience and develop the skills of being an improviser. An example of a working day could be starting with an guided open warm up session followed by some more targeted investigations of themes and tools ending with improv sessions where we can implement some of the skills and tools we explored as well as engage in feedback and dialogue based on what we have seen and experienced.

There is an emphasis on group spontaneous composition with some exploration of voice work and musicality.

David Hernandez's biography

Active as a multi faceted performing artist based in Brussels since 1993. In a career spanning more than 30 years, he has enjoyed collaborating as a choreographer, dancer, singer, performer, visual artist, teacher and coach on projects spanning baroque opera to urban dance video. He has played a vital role in shaping creations by iconic names in the European dance world like Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods and Rosas / Anne Teresa de Keersmaker as well as launched landmark dance initiatives such as the Crash Landing and Performance Hotel events, the PEP performance program, and multimedia installations with longtime creative partners LaborGras (Berlin), Collectif du Lion (BE) amongst many others.

David’s unique choreographic voice and detailed dance language has brought critically acclaimed work to stages across Europe for over two decades. Since 2015, he has deepened his choreographic research through a partnership with Cacao Bleu vzw under the banner dh+ / David Hernandez and Collaborators. Within this framework, he created productions For Movement’s Sake, Hullabaloo and Sketches on Scarlatti, Vox. These works were supported domestically by STUK (Leuven), Monty (Antwerp), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), and C-mine (Genk) and internationally by the Ballets de Lorraine, Scènes Vosges (Épinal), Into The Fields Festival (Bonn), National Center for Choreography Tours / Direction Thomas Lebrun, Mediterranean Dance Center San Vincenti, C-Takt Dommelhof and Cocoon Dance,… amongst many others.

Ermäßigungen*

Bei gleichzeitiger Reservierung von 2 oder mehr Workshops für denselben Teilnehmer erhalten Sie folgende Rabatte:

  • 2 Workshops
    10%
  • 3 Workshops
    15%
  • 4 oder mehr Workshops
    20%
  • 2 Workshops in derselben Woche
    15%

*Die Ermäßigungen gelten nur für ein- oder zweiwöchige Workshops. Die Ermäßigungen gelten nicht für Intensiv-Workshops (4 oder mehr Wochen).