AUGUST 23 AND 30
RAW FEELING RAW MOVEMENT
_Workshop_ (6 Hrs)
By applying for this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with LIKA.
LIKA - Raw feeling/raw movement
RAW FEELING / RAW MOVEMENT
We are used to thinking that emotion on stage is either the result of good acting training — or a personal drama that the performer brings into the studio. Both work. But there is a third way.
A technical one.
When emotion becomes not the reason for movement, but the material itself.
When you can turn it on, amplify it, hide it, transform it — right in the middle of a phrase. Without losing honesty. Without losing control. Without slipping into fake expression or falling out of your dance technique.
This is a skill. And it can be trained.
We start with a full physical dance warmup — joints, cardio, coordination. The body must be fast, warm, and ready for precise impulse work.
Then — pure practice:
- How to recognise the physical signature of an inner state.
- How to let it generate movement — not imitate it.
- How to play the distance between actually feeling and showing the feeling— switching midphrase, without losing quality.
This is not a jam.
Not a therapy group.
Not an open mic for personal stories.