Our teaching sources from our practice, which continuously expands in dynamics guided by curiosity and the hunger of improvisors being passionately inspired. We offer Morning Practice and improvisation-based classes; as well as other approaches to dance and movement like floor work, Partnering and Contact Work, Martial Arts, the GYROKINESIS® Method, and various contemporary techniques.
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Our teaching process lives in constant interaction with the emerging situation, sensitively open to the curiosity and need of the students. We teach as creators, sharing the space with creators.
Our classes address movers from beginners to professionals. We have been teaching to a wide range of contexts: from dance students (NEFCD, Härnösand Folkhögskola, Sweden), circus artists (Circus Lounge, Turku, Finland) to professional dancers (LEOGNAZYaccompanied, Cologne, Germany). In addition to workshops and festivals, we teach regularly for local people on the island of El Hierro (Nangilima studio).
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Photo: Vicente Redtin
- Film and edit by Herobles
Lull Before the Thunder (our Morning Practice) is our own regular training tradition which we like to open up in form of morning classes to share from the ground from where we create. It is the result of years of ongoing research, informed by creating and teaching.
This practice is a body and mind warm-up for animating one’s own creative work. The body is allowed to access its own intelligence by sourcing from its natural urge to be present: to move and to create. Like musicians tuning daily into the scales of their instruments, we tune into instinct-based tools of movement and body consciousness: Universal laws of centre, grounding, and movement foundation such as coordination and repetition, musicality, contra direction, energy gates and fascia structure.
We train the mind to sink into the body to facilitate the ability to instantly act and create. The aim is to nurture the ground from where further specificity of movement composition and dance styles source from. The motivation to create this practice is to seek a context which cultivates universal principles by simple practical doing. Morning Practice is based on enduring training knowledge found in international movement and performance traditions. Our background spans from contemporary to urban dance, Tai Chi, Karate, Japanese Butoh and Bharata Natyam/classical Indian dance. This is a constantly actively shifting and widening field.
​Requests/Bookings: nangilimaproject@gmail.com