Afternoon Professional Training - Tijen Lawton - Navigating Wild Ocean
Schedule
Mon May 04 2026 at 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Edmond van Cauwenberghstraat 55, 1080 Brussels, Belgium | Sint-jans-molenbeek, BU
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Afternoon Professional TrainingWe are happy to welcome back Tijen Lawton from the 4th to the 6th of May.
Navigating Wild Ocean
4-5-6 of May
14h to 17h
Navigating wild ocean frames the body as a responsive vessel moving through unpredictability, intensity, and constant change. Rather than seeking control, the practice develops sensitivity to shifting forces, momentum, resistance, and instability, allowing movement to emerge through adaptation. Attention sharpens and widens, enabling rapid negotiation between risk and support, effort and release. The body learns to yield, reorient, and reorganize in real time, cultivating resilience within turbulence. In this state, navigation becomes an embodied intelligence grounded in trust, presence, and continuous adjustment.
Tijen Lawton
Tijen’s main body of works spans over a period of over 30 years as a professional dance artist, shifting between performing, teaching, mentoring, coaching, researching and co-creating
in diverse artistic and academic contexts. Artist and educator, she delves into the body as an archive, merging artistic practice and teaching. Through research and commitment to the unexplainable in movement, she cultivates heightened senses and ignites creative potential. Tijen studied at Arts Educational School London, The Place LCDS London, The Juilliard School New York. For 15 years, she was a constant presence in all of Jan Lauwers & Needcompany’s work performing, creating and touring worldwide. Also performing, touring & collaborating with Caterina & Carlotta Sagna, Mauro Paccagnella & Wooshing Machine, Pierre Droulers, Erika Zueneli, As Palavras / Cie Claudio Bernardo, Rebecca Lenaerts, Greet Vissers & Kunstz, Mokhallad Rasem & het Toneelhuis, Marco Toricce, Lisaboa Houbrechts, Andrew Graham, laGeste.
75 euros for the 3 days or 30 euros per day
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Where is it happening?
Edmond van Cauwenberghstraat 55, 1080 Brussels, Belgium, Edmond van Cauwenberghstraat 55, 1080 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, België, Sint-jans-molenbeek, BelgiumEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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