Movement Workshop for Families
ZUGA United Dancers
The workshop takes place in a very friendly atmosphere with movement games, tasks chosen according to participants (no dance skills expected from anyone).
The workshop is by appointment only.
Practical Details
- Group size: up to 30 people
- Target audience: All children and their parents from 4 years of age are welcome
- Duration: 1 hour or by agreement
- Price per group: 180 euros, outside Tallinn travel costs are added
- Location: hall with space to move, speakers required
- Contact: Ingrid Kääramees, ingrid@stl.ee, tel. 53402617
Workshop Description
Movement Workshop for Families is a playful gathering for the whole family where, using a new secret language—movement—each participant can tell a story about their joys and what sometimes makes them sad.
The workshop creates playful situations where everyone is equal and it’s not clear who guides or instructs whom. Parents may find themselves being pulled by the hand or led by children, and vice versa. Who holds whose neck and who turns whose head—this becomes clear in the workshop. In the workshop, we learn to discover and create communication situations through movement and experiment with different ways of dancing together. We practice attention and readiness in play situations.
Together we stretch, relax, laugh at ourselves, help each other, and also create choreography. From following each other, choreography emerges during the workshop that we dance together.
The workshop is part of ZUGA’s new performance preparation process, where the characters are parents, children, and their life together. The material created during the workshop serves as a starting point for creating a new performance.
ZUGA United Dancers
The workshop is conducted by members of ZUGA United Dancers: a community of dancers and choreographers bound by seeking harmony through play. Their performances and creative work have received much recognition and attention and have traveled around the world.
Feedback
“A completely different experience playing and moving with their children gave the parents who came, and it brought great joy and fun to the children. Both children and parents danced and ran.”
— Harjumaa Lasterikkad MTÜ