Teaching The Teachers (TTT) – A Moment of self-criticism

This meetings took place in Bucharest at the National Center of Dance between the 8th and the 14th of October, organized by ArtLink as part of the project Jardin d’Europe and led by the dramaturg Bojana Cvejic, the visual artist Jan Kopp, the choreographer Jennifer Lacey and the director-dramaturg Jan Ritsema. The common denominator of all the encounters was an eloquent “Time to Think…”, various methods of education and methods of creation, relations between choreography and dramaturgy. I was there too, because I am a teacher at the University of Performing Arts “I.L. Caragiale”, choreography section, and I felt the need to debate many questions: methods of teaching, topics, purposes, strategies, goals, and nevertheless the way of communication with the students. I am following a personal search focusing the body-mind connection, integrating Body-Mind Centering, Feldenkrais and Ideokinesis. My starting-point is “the mind” of the body, of the different tissues, the place of sensation, imagination, intuition and emotion. I have started working on our structure in order to discover our different ways of functioning through visualizing, listening and moving.   How to start? We found this general question: “What do you do while you teach?“. So we interviewed each other about […]