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Tictac Art Centre
34, Rue Emile Carpentier
1070 Brussels
Belgium

April 6 - 10

Indrek Kornel

Functional improvisation

Functional Improvisation is a research-based movement workshop that brings functional body conditioning into direct dialogue with improvisational practice. The work is grounded in pre-Pilates methodology transmitted to me by my mentor Deborah Lessen, based on the work of Eve Gentry.
The practice focuses on movement timing and minimal, joint-level movement: locating the center of each joint, working with micro-movements, spirals, and lever systems. These precise actions support alignment, re-organization, and fine coordination, offering a restorative counterbalance to intensive or highly performative physical practices.

From this grounded base, the work opens into improvisation. Functional material becomes a field for exploration—how anatomical knowledge can remain active inside motion, and how structured conditioning can transform into creative choice. Rather than separating functional training from improvisation, the workshop integrates them, allowing structure to become a resource for play, adaptability, and embodied awareness.

Indrek Kornel's biography

Indrek Kornel is an interdisciplinary choreographer, dancer, and movement educator whose work is grounded in improvisation, functional movement research, and embodied systems thinking. His movement research is informed by pre-Pilates methodology transmitted through Deborah Lessen, based on the work of Eve Gentry, as well as by improvisation practices experienced with David Zambrano, Ruth Zaporah and many others.
He has a higher education in Choreography and IT - working with databases, system migration, and information architecture. This dual practice shapes his artistic approach: working with existing structures—physical, conceptual, or experiential—and focuses on reorganizing and translating them into clearer, more accessible forms for the body.
His work engages contradiction as a creative force: how to feel at ease inside opposing impulses, how to become unstuck, and how to find freedom not as absence of structure, but through awareness, timing, breath, and connection. Informed by self-determination theory, his practice treats movement as play—creating frames where attention, choice, and possibility can unfold without censorship.

Upcoming workshops

A barefoot person in a loose blue suit performs a dynamic dance inspired by Skinner Releasing Technique, balancing on one leg with the other bent and raised, in a minimalist, light-colored studio.
February 16 - 27
Lily Kiara
Skinner Releasing Technique
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A dancer performs energetically in front of a seated audience under dim lighting, highlighting dynamic movement—an expressive moment captured with Freeform.
February 16 - 27
Mauricio Cruz
Freeform
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Dynamic Expansion/Moveable Cinema
March 2 - 6
Shannon Cooney
Dynamic Expansion/Moveable Cinema
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A man in blue shorts is suspended sideways indoors, gripping the "Screw It" wooden structure with black rods, which hangs from the ceiling by a rope in a room featuring geometric wall panels.
March 2 - 6
Florian Vuille
Screw It
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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).