Season 2025 – 2026 is the year of Transition

in which the studio with the offered trainings will transition slowly in it’s form yet with a clear vision and focus on embodied performance practices.
Together – Diederick van Rijsewijk & Iris van Peppen – will create space for trainings, workshops, public sharings and residencies with the aim to include artists and non artists that share a deep interest in the body as a resource for creation.

In September we will start with the open class week, in october the great Julyen Hamilton will teach a 3 day workshop open to join. In November there is a public sharing of the Tuesday group. At the end of each semester – December and June- all participants will practice together. More workshops and public sharings are in the making so please stay updated on our socials and see our program.

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Embodied Performance Practices

Where Iris van Peppen will share her extended experience as a dance teacher and maker, bringing her unique and curious insight on the integration of a somatic experience within a performative context, Diederick van Rijsewijk will bring his experience as an all round composer. Coming from music – as a singer / songwriter, musician and physical performer –  rooted in somatics and bringing his swift humour and imaginative mind; participants will gain a deep understanding of musical embodiment.

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Classes & Workshops

Open for beginners and experienced movers

MUSICAL EMBODIMENT & SOMATIC PERFORMANCE ART

In this training we will explore somatic work as a means for composition and artistic expression. This will be a space for composers, musicians and other artistic practitioners to deepen their Musical embodiment and real time composition practice.

Tuesday
19.00h

Open Level

FUNDAMENTALS
SOMATIC MOVEMENT & PERFORMANCE PRINCIPLES

In this training the weight is given to: somatic exploration, integrating somatic knowledge within a performative context and performance principles.
No experience is needed for this training.

Wednesday
19.15h

IMPROGRAPHY LAB SUMMER INTENSIVE
BY MIRI LEE & IRIS VAN PEPPEN

A Research-based improvisation workshop with live music for dancers and movers.

August 28-31
10.30-17.30h

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Performances

Fragments of Sky

Concert and dance performance in one, between punk and meditation, Fragments of sky shifts the boundaries of a dance performance.

Pulse#1 

This performance immerses you in the vibrant relationship between dancers, sound and space. Varying from a pulsing rhythm, like a heartbeat, until stilled presence.

That Moment Silence Was So Loud

A light designer, composer, dramaturge, dancer and choreographer create together experiences of time and space. Open your senses and enjoy the unfolding of different animated landscapes!

“Van Peppen manages to create dances that seem to engage dancers as if they were doing their own work. The dancers’ presence and approach to space had a sense of intention and purposefulness that engaged the entire room”

Vincent Cacialano in Currents, a Body Mind Centering Association journal