Indulge the Movement - Contemporary Dance for All / Janne Aspvik

In this course we’ll get to know each other. We will dance to the rhythm all together and we’ll let improvisation guide us. The classes led by Janne Aspvik will start with warm-up, during which we will open up the senses towards the space and towards the other bodies moving in the space. The warm-up is followed by rhythmic exercises, in which we will learn how to sing and play short rhythmic phrases. During the course the aim is to learn how to vary the learnt phrase – in other words improvise within the frame of these predetermined rhythmic phrases. After that we will move by ourselves, in pairs and in the group. The participants will be given the opportunity to practice the dialogical relationship between movement improvisation and these rhythmical phrases. The course draws partially from the performance Floor is Lava (choreographed by Janina Rajakangas) and its workshop-material that Janne Aspvik has been facilitating as a drummer and a dancer together with Janina Rajakangas. One does not need prior knowledge neither from music or dance. Attend the class in a relaxed outfit with layers since we will alternate between playing music and dancing. Janne Aspvik is a dance artist, who graduated with BA from Theatre Academy in 2010. He has worked as a dancer i.e. at Helsinki City Theatre, Dance Theatre Minimi, Dance Theatre Raatikko, Dance Theatre Hurjaruuth, Routa Combany, AB Dance Company and also in the works of Tero Saarinen, Alpo Aaltokoski, Petri Kekoni, Liisa Pentti, Elina Pirinen, Janina Rajakangas, Maya M. Carroll and Taneli Törmä.