One Day Workshop

Our One Day Workshop offers amateur dancers and their teachers an unparalleled overall experience around a Danshuis Station Zuid performance. Our  ballet master and dancers will come to the participating organisation’s accommodation, e.g. dance schools, ballet schools, educational institutions or creative centres. The day will start with a technical class. This will be a warming up for the muscles, and the distinctive combinations of movements will create a wonderful dance flow that will focus concentration and physical alertness. This lesson will segue into a workshop in which the amateurs will set to work on parts of the repertoire from the performance in question.

In the artists’ shoes

Through short composition-assignments participants will step into the artists’ shoes to explore how they could change, expand, or refine the dance material. Then they will present the results to each other. After so much hard work there is time for a little breather during a thematic lecture that will focus completely on the performance they will see later on in the day.

Backstage Tour

This concludes the active part of the One Day Workshop after which the participants will move on and go to the theatre where they will receive a backstage tour. They will be able to see the dancers perform their final preparations: stretching their bodies, warming up the muscles and going over the steps one more time. Next, as the rest of the audience walks in, they will take the seats that have been reserved for them; cue lights! From the first movement and the opening sounds they will recognize the dancers’ concentration, their complete surrender until the curtain falls, an experience they have after all shared for the whole day. To be so completely involved in a performance will give the participating amateurs and their teachers an unparalleled and creatively inspiring dance experience.