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Tictac Art Centre
34, Rue Emile Carpentier
1070 Brussels
Belgium

September 12 - 13

Ezra LeBank

Cloud Tectonics: Training for Contact Improvisation & Contemporary Partnering

“Is it possible for us to fly and fall without noticing much? Can the drift inherent in momentum compel us toward intuitive pathways above and along each other?

We will begin with Dirt Work, physical training to expand, integrate, and ready our bodies in conversation with gravity and the earth. This prepares us for flight and dynamic capacity we explore in Cloud Tectonics, training that reframes our experiences of lift, loft, and drift. Detailed and buoyant exercises guide us toward a dancing experience full of abundant and radically free choice-making in vertical and spherical space for both ourselves and those we dance with. We imagine a dance we co-create amidst simultaneous independence and communion in flight.”

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Ezra LeBank's biography

Ezra LeBank is a Professor of Movement and Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at California State University Long Beach. Meditation, Aikido, and acrobatics work their way into his curiosity of dance improvisation. His approach is inspired by many wonderful teachers including Nancy Stark Smith, Ray Chung, Mike Vargas, Nita Little, and Steve Paxton. He has been invited as a teacher at International Contact Festival Freiburg, West Coast Contact Improv Jam, Seattle Festival for Dance Improvisation, Poland Contact Festival, Oberlin CI@50, and many more. He has created and performed Contemporary Circus and Dance Theatre across the world. Through his research company Bad Goat Dance, he studies Dirt Work & Cloud Tectonics as methods of bringing ourselves closer to the earth and to each other.

Upcoming workshops

A man wearing a black t-shirt and blue pants strikes an expressive pose in a bright studio with honeycomb wall panels and wooden floors, evoking the atmosphere of "I feel for you"—a contact improvisation workshop in Brussels. It's Charlie Morrissey.
May 18 - 22
Charlie Morrissey
I feel for you
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Wearing loose black pants and a patterned shirt, a barefoot dancer strikes a dynamic pose in Fluxness, a spacious and minimalist Brussels studio hosting a contemporary movement workshop. It's Antoni Androulakis.
May 18 - 22
Antoni Androulakis
Fluxness
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A man in a white shirt lies on the ground, reaching forward with focus, embodying the energy of The Nature Within Us—connecting movement, healing, and creativity through the five elements theory—amid shadows and colored lights. It's Ori Flomin.
May 25 - 29
Ori Flomin
The Nature Within Us – connecting movement, healing, and creativity through the five elements theory.
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A man in a pink t-shirt and olive pants dances barefoot in an empty studio with gray walls and floor, embodying the creative freedom encouraged by "Tools to create improvised dances.
June 1 - 12
Thomas Hauert
Tools to create improvised dances
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Discounts*

By reserving in one time 2 or more workshops for the same participant you can get the following discounts:

  • 2 workshops
    10%
  • 3 workshops
    15%
  • 4 or more workshops
    20%
  • 2 same week workshops
    15%

*Discounts only apply for one week or two week workshops. Discounts do not apply for intensive workshops (4 or more weeks).