T.h.e Dance Company: Workshop
(This is a past event and is no longer running)
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HollowBody™️ & Repertoire Workshop by The Human Expression Dance Company, Singapore
Alongside the highly anticipated UK premiere of T.H.E Dance Company’s Rethinking Co-existence, The Coronet Theatre is thrilled to present a unique and exciting opportunity to dance with this highly acclaimed dance collective and its Artistic Director Kuik Swee Boon in an exclusive 3 hour workshop.
Led by Kuik Swee Boon and T.H.E’s full-time dance artists, this two-part session will comprise a HollowBody™️ workshop and the learning of an excerpt from Infinitely Closer, Swee Boon’s latest commissioned work that premiered in October 2022 as part of the opening of Singapore’s Singtel Waterfront Theatre.
Suitable for: Professional and semi-professional dance artists, dancers, full-time dance students aged 18 and above, and movement enthusiasts who are comfortable with improvisation.
Attire: Participants should be dressed in loose-fitting, comfortable attire that allows unrestricted movement and freedom of expression.
What is HollowBody™️?
HollowBody™️ is the signature methodology and movement philosophy advocated by founding artistic director and main choreographer of Singapore’s T.H.E Dance Company, Kuik Swee Boon; it is the current methodology with which the dance artists at T.H.E train. Neither a mere movement aesthetic nor an existential state of being, it is an experiential process, utilising improvisational tools to guide practitioners towards a heightened physiological awareness that resonates in their movement choice, approach, and expression.
HollowBody™️ is based on the understanding of the body as the foundation of our world. As a vessel for thoughts, emotions and energy, our embodied experiences and knowledge transcend language and logic. The HollowBody™️ methodology seeks to establish in its practitioner a level of trust and access that can surface these deep impulses and needs, and unearth an innate connectivity between mind, heart, and body. With the practitioner’s curiosities, potential, and limitations becoming wholly available to themselves, self-understanding and creative expression unfold.
Today, long-term practice of the HollowBody™️ methodology has fed naturally into T.H.E’s creation and performance voice. We at T.H.E believe that with HollowBody™️, dance and movement can be embraced as a fundamental pillar in life that offers a deep connection to the body, and in turn, the world.