2025 NEW DATES ANNOUNCED: 3 weekends in April, May, and June 2025 + a 9 day intensive workshop Sept 1st - September 10th all at Tanzfabrik, Kreuzberg, Berlin
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The Touch Training is a unique opportunity to enhance your dance skills in communication with humans and non-human subjects. Over 3 modules, I will introduce a vocabulary of Listening, Light and Deep touch techniques, which we explore in technical phrases, contact improvisation, partnering and composition play. We will embody touch as a global sense-making skill, cultivating anatomical sensitivity, sensory-motor, motor-sensory and environmental awareness. The training will cover themes of gravity, differentiating tone, fluidity, momentum, spirals, fascia, flight and compassion.
The Vocabulary of Touch essentially represents an outcome of my background training, and research in Contact Improvisation and Somatic practices, including Body Mind Centering, Skinner Release Technique, Authentic Movement, Axis Syllabus, and a PhD project that investigated how touch enables encounters with Otherness. Resources from these sources will be provided during the training.
The Touch Training is taught over 3 weekend modules (9 days). Module 1. will focus on Listening Touch, Module 2. on Light Touch and Modue 3. on Deep Touch. You can modules join separately or sign up for the progressive journey.
April 11–13, 2025: 12:00-18:00 on Friday & 10.00-17:00 on Saturday & Sunday
May 9–11, 2025: 12:00-18:00 on Friday & 10.00-17:00 on Saturday & Sunday
June 13–15, 2025: 12:00-18:00 on Friday & 10.00-17:00 on Saturday & Sunday
I will also teach The Touch Training in a New 9-day Intensive Workshop format in 2025, from 1st -10th September 10.00-17.00 (with Saturday 6th as a day off).
Sign up below for the Early Bird €600. Offer ends 31st Dec 2024!
The price includes in-person teaching, resources and personal 1-to-1 feedback sessions. Full Course (3 weekends): €660-900, Single modules: €240-300
Deposit per module: €100. Installment plans can be arranged.
September 9 day Intensive: €660-900. Early Bird until Feb 31st €600!
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Rosalind Holgate Smith (UK) is Dance Artist, Choreographer & Somatic Educator based in Berlin. As a CI teacher of over 15 years, she incorporates approaches from Body-Mind Centering, Skinner Release Technique, Authentic movement, martial arts and her practice of dancing outdoors, in water, with trees and with raw matter, including soil. Over the past 4 years she has been working on a PhD, investigating Touch as an encounter with Otherness and the Vocabulary of touch used in Contact, the touch training represents an outcome of this research.
with assisting guest teachers including Lotte Jirke and more