Martin Kilvady

Martin Kilvady’s intensive this year opens its morning sessions to those curious to taste the work. For those ready to commit fully and dive deep into mastery of the work, the complete intensive offers warm up, plus morning and afternoon sessions with a dedicated group building practice together over time.

Schedule
10:00–11:30 Open warmup class – open to all, 15 € per session (included in the intensive price)
11:30 – 13:00 Morning session (intensive participants only)
14:30–17:30 Afternoon session (intensive participants only)

108 hours over 18 intensive days:
6-12 March
15-19 March
22-27 March

Full attendance is strongly encouraged. That said, if certain dates conflict with prior commitments, partial participation may be considered — particularly for those with previous training with Martin. Reach out to info@tictacartcentre.com and we’ll check with him directly.

For the past 30 years I have been present in the field of professional contemporary dance.
I enjoyed studying, embracing the intricacies of creative processes, I spent countless hours with people I like, globetrotting presenting the work on stage and in dance studios.
All these experiences contributed towards the crystallisation of ‘Martins Dancing’, my dance style.

TEACHING:
I remember clearly, surprisingly shortly after taking my first dance classes I was already teaching dance to others.
I just liked a lot the process of unveiling my intuitive understanding, conceptualizing it and inventing procedures how to gift my know-how to friends, colleagues and students.
I have taught others pretty much everything what I learned from others and experienced myself.
I received the MA degree in dance pedagogy and simultaneously I have been dancing full blast until nowadays.

TEACHING CONTENT:
What I’m offering to you is an experience of my craft, a study moment in the library of my knowledge.
I will teach you the scores and methods that will equip you with concrete and graspable tools.
I designed these tools in order to cultivate awareness, a sensitivity that can help you to access your feelings.
The study process will radically enlarge your movement vocabulary and teach you how to use the body language more eloquently.

SOME KEY WORDS THAT OFTEN APPEAR DURING THE LESSONS:
“this is how we dance in our village”, “travelling through all asanas”, “orchestration”, “melting to all directions”, “growing plant style”, “sun setting legato”, “gently smoking thighs score”, “feet and hand relevé”, “feeling”, “flirting with intensity”, “range of motion”, “mobile chest spine – tree trunk lumbar spine” “delicious dancing”

VIDEO IMPRESSIONS:
I invite you to curiously view the video links at the end of this writing. They will give you visual impressions of my artistry.

IMPROVISATION:
I have never done anything in my life that was not improvised.
Since 2005 I am mostly not working with pre-choreographed movement sequences, pre-written vocabulary, yet I believe that my work contains tremendous amount of clarity and layered precision.
I use improvisation to conduct my movement research, to perform, for the work outs and training sessions and unusually as a treatment tool.

CONCLUSIONS:
What I’m presenting to you is very personal, yet I carry the belief that my work houses a generous portion of objective value to All.
To study with me you don’t need to be a movement specialist, professional performer nor a young person.
I appreciate a lot open minded curious students ready to spend time investigating, using your today’s potential occasionally swinging to the tunes of music.
I wish to help and make you feel better.

For ever young “dance improvisation on the music”
Faking martial arts
Short manual to our own body trampoline
Skiing-Dancing
TICTAC Art Centre(David’s birthday)
“Travelling through All Asanas”
Shoulders treatment session
Cross Country Styles 1
Pushing the floor
Effortless, relaxed, released, stylish
Trampoline styles
Performing in “middle level” holy smoking thighs
Shooting the knee upwards
Usual-less usual, Ordinary-Extraordinary, Common-uncommon
CLARITY on bending forward and coming upright in 3 repetitions.
Warm up, full body motion
Shifting Dance 1
Warm down
Obviously video
Soft and Hard
Foot-Ankel BALANCING ON THE WET RAIL.
Amsterdam Airport
….Martin @ Martin’s @ TicTac….
Cross-leg-Bounce plus voice over suggestions
Suarez – Sur tes lèvres (Clip Officiel) (Official Music Video)

Here few vimeo links from late performances that are also very useful:
“The Craft of Dry Lands Ice-Skating”: Last Part
Bouldering the Theatre Couloirs