A Three-Sunday Embodied Performance Lab: From Impulse to Performance

Through movement, voice, imagination, and collaborative exploration, participants gradually discover and develop their own creative material
About this Event


Embodied Performance Lab: From Impulse to Performance
A three-Sunday creative laboratory in movement, voice, and creation

What happens when movement becomes language? When does imagination become performance? When do individual ideas grow through collaboration?

This Lab is a three-session creative journey for anyone curious about movement, performance, storytelling, and artistic exploration. Through movement, voice, writing, and collaborative composition, participants create original performance material.

This is not an acting class: the focus is not on performing perfectly, but on discovering an authentic creative process within a supportive ensemble.

Each session builds on the previous one, guiding participants from embodied exploration to the creation of an original material.

3-Sunday Lab Agenda
Sunday 1 Discover

From Impulse to Collective Creation

• Welcome & introductions
• Group connection and embodied warm-up
• Movement and improvisation practices
• Imagination and sensory exploration
• Reflective writing
• Composition and collective creation
• Sharing & reflection

Sunday 2 Develop

Breath, Voice & Storytelling

• Body and voice warm-up
• Breath and vocal exploration
• Resonance, articulation, and projection
• Partner and ensemble exercises
• Storytelling through images and imagination
• Integrating voice, movement, and text
• Sharing & reflection

Sunday 3 Compose

Composition & Sharing

• Ensemble warm-up
• Collective movement and listening practices
• Expanding and refining personal material
• Performance composition
• Presentation of individual works
• Group reflection & closing

By the end of the lab, you will:

• develop greater confidence using movement and voice creatively

• learn practical improvisation and devising tools

• explore new approaches to collaborative creation

• create original movement and written material

• develop a short performance score you can continue refining

• connect with an international creative community in Amsterdam

This laboratory offers a welcoming space to experiment, collaborate, and create.

No previous experience is necessary - only curiosity, openness, and comfortable clothes you can move in (and water).