Photo credits: Kim Doeleman
We are a movement research collective with a focus on experimental performances and alternative ways of approaching movement training. With different backgrounds from neuroscience to music, we are strongly committed to doing our share for creating sustainable futures. We go about this by providing movement workshops based on ideas of playfulness, wilderness, and contingency, offer collaborative sessions for groups of all ages, create site-specific and experimental performances. We are a tough titties group, ready to share and collaborate with others and constantly challenging (in an enabling way) each other and what we think is possible. Along the way we have discovered in each other strong friendships and flexible emotional networks, for us, the personal is political, so from the ways, we communicate with each other to what we put out in the world, we CARE.
Some cool collaborations:
GRRR Creative Agency: experimental performance, 2020
Hongereige Wolf Festival: dance performance, 2019
Roehampton University: multivoiced conference, 2019
Services:
Movement training laboratories: for dancers and non dancers all levels
Collaboration worshops
Performances
Creative thinking, brainstorming. Topics: sustainability, movement, dramaturgy, somatic healing.
Anna Riley Shepard is a neuroscientist and a dancer working as a creative advisor on different companies. Originally from the US she graduated from Harvard University and pursued a carrier as a dancer. Currently based in Amsterdam she is directing her efforts towards climate change awareness and company policies and at the same time continuing her research as a dancer.
Mayke van Veldhuizen is a performer and dance teacher working with several dance schools and movement groups. Originally from Friesland she graduated from Amsterdam Art University in the field of performing arts and has worked around the globe with choreographers and collectives.
Ymke Fros is a dancer, teacher, life coach and trainer working in the field of creative pedagogy, dance, and theatre. Originally from Wageningen, NL she graduated from Fontys School of Arts speciallizing in performance pedagogy. She developed an important carrier as a performer and she is co-founder of HALTE-6. She has worked extensivelly with schools and other social communities in creating and developing performance projects.
Rosanna ter-Steege is a freelance dancer and performer. She studied at the Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Dance academy - Dance theater performing arts department. She developed her own work at the young makers platform: L'avventura | productionhouse De New Vorst Tilburg. A duet, raw physical theater, in cooperation with Nine Rab under the name of makers duo: FRÄNK. Later productions of FRÄNK we're shown at Festival Boulevard | Boulevard Fabrikaat (Den Bosch) and Magneet festival Amsterdam 'Ravin' Like My Generation. After graduating in 2011 she worked amongst several others: Schweigman&; ERF (2015, 2016), HUiD (SKIN) | a cooperation with Slagwerk Den Haag (2017,2018), Kalpana Raghuraman; SIMEON | LEMNISCAAT, De kwekerij, Dance Connects Company; [mi:t] (2018), Iris Woutera; CRACKLEWARE (2018), Happy Hour Chandelier (2018), Meli Kuhn; Kontaktzonen (2015), Schwestern (2016).
Prototype for my research proposal in the Master in Theatre Practices, ArtEZ. 2019.