KENAN DINKELMANN
Flow Acrobatics
26-30 August 2024
Monday to Friday: 2hrs per day
Level: Intense
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Workshop Description
The Flow Acrobatics workshop focuses on body awareness and coordination through playful integration of new movement patterns inspired by capoeira and contemporary dance. It begins with a warm-up influenced by martial arts and yoga to prepare body and mind, incorporating challenging postures and circular motions for enhanced awareness, particularly in wrists and legs. The workshop progresses to explore spine mechanics through movement patterns involving balance, stability, falls, rolls, flips, and relaxed flow, gradually increasing in complexity and incorporating acrobatic sequences. The main part features high-energy movements drawn from various disciplines like Capoeira, Judo, Release Technique, and Breakdance, with an emphasis on improvisation to explore these movements from different perspectives.
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Kenan Dinkelmann grew up in Germany and graduated from Artez, School of Dance, Arnhem with a BA of performing arts and completed the SEAD postgraduate program Bodhi Project directed by Susan Quinn where he toured works by Jozef Frucek & Linda Kapetanea, Martin Nachbar and Robert Clark in Europe. As freelance dancer he worked with Johannes Wieland, Marion Sparber, Ivan Perez, Unterwegstheater and Anton Lachky. From 2015 till 2017 he joined the dance company of Stadttheater Bielefeld where he danced in works by Wim Vandekeybus, Simone Sandroni and Sharon Fridman. Kenan brought his Flow Acrobatics workshops in different institutions among the others: Stadttheater Bielefeld, Marameo Berlin, TRAK Dance Ensemble, Tanzbüro Basel. As a choreographer he created the piece “Astral ‘’ which premiered in Sofia, Bulgaria with further shows in Dock11 Berlin and Arnhem, Netherlands. In 2022 he choreographed the show “Demon Cleaner“ for the Popballet, and “Tenki ‘’ for the Movement Project.
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