Can Less be More?

The class is focusing on the most simple but fundamental patterns of motion and patterns of bodily awareness. It has an aim to increase ergonomics of motion and fully utilize bodily knowledge one already has.

Structure of 90 min session, in peculiar way combines ideas of warm up, technique and improvisation. Class starts with simple exercises revising body aliment and awareness of the space and then develops to a strictly framed improvisation set, which leads to vital motion using as less unnecessary muscle power as possible.

Andrius Katinas is Lithuanian dance artist based in Finland. He studied theatre and dance arts at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and Theatre Academy of Finland. Since 1999 he is actively working as a performer and choreographer both in Finland and Lithuania. His main focus lies in different modes of collaboration and continuous search of new approaches and perspectives in dance making.