For whom
This course welcomes participants from all backgrounds and profiles. The course is guided in English, and Dutch, and possibly a bit of French. 

Content
Emilie Gallier, dancer researcher and gardener, works within the multidisciplinary collaboration Gleaners and the Worms with Nina Boas and Nienke Terpsma. Together they develop practices coming closer with soils under our feet. This course builds on these experiences and is guided by Emilie, with occasional guests Nina and Nienke.  

For 6 weeks, experience practices of soil connections through dance scores and movement improvisation techniques with the support of textiles and other magic objects the 3 artists have crafted. We will dance, we will dream, we will listen in and play, we will sing. Our practices will rigorously engage with cycles, revisit, iteration, moving with the perspectives of soil life.

The cyclical structure involves checkin questions setting the tone for our movements: - what brings you here? - what do you carry? - what is holding you? - with where do you tell stories? - how are you with your body? - what is your soil salutation practice?

Testimonials 
« I like the concrete stimuli: objects, cloth, drawings, paper, instruments. It is very tactile and it stimulates listening, seeing, an awareness ofa constellation of which we are part and which we create together. It stimulates my imagination, it opens up possibilities. […] Each class was subtly structured. The checking in with an ‘out of the ordinary’ question, that seduced us to answer not from the mind. butfrom someplace else: vision, imagination, intuition. The answers are intimate, sincere, close to the heart. » L. 

« Ik kan er niet over uit hoe fantastisch ik de cursus vond. Ik voel me een geluksvogel dat zo'n bijzondere en creatieve cursus wordt aangeboden in Leiden en bij het LAK. […] Wat de cursus ook bijzonder maakt is de samenwerking met cursisten en docenten, waarbij iedereen op zijn eigen niveau zijn proces doormaakt, in een sfeer van respect en vertrouwen. En ook de combinatie van de drie docenten met hun eigen invalshoeken maakt het een hele gelaagde rijke cursus. » E.

This course  can greatly combine with the Workshop Dance Impro Holding while Held - exercises in reciprocity

Teachers
Emilie Gallier is dance artist, researcher, and gardener based in Leiden (Netherlands) and Les Minières (France). Her multimodal practice shapes her writing and performance making with soils, humans, and other animals. With her brother, living-soils gardener, Emilie co-founded Les Minières where gardening and art making gather. At the Amsterdam University of the Arts, and with Nienke Terpsma and Nina Boas she studies inclined bodies and earthworms. 

Nina Boas (she/her) is a visual artist and theater maker based in Amsterdam. She graduated from AKI ArtEZ in Enschede and completed her master's degree at DAStheater. Her work combines rituals, visual performance art, and theater with a focus on healing, which is expressed in various ways. Boas' practice includes drawings, performances, installations, and experiential journeys. Inspired by healing and self-development practices, Boas develops rituals and shares formats in collaborative search processes.

Nineke Terpsma (she/her) is a visual artist and book designer living in Rotterdam. She has worked closely with artists, authors and publishers on book and other projects in various roles and constellations. Together with Rob Hamelijnck she initiated the travelling artist-(maga)zine for non-academic research Fucking Good Art. Starting out (in 2004) as a zine for art critique by artists, FGA has engaged in field research into the humus and life around the artwork. FGA appears irregularly, mostly on paper—but also as radio, online, or spatial installations—from local contexts and in dialogue with other makers and thinkers.
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Emilie Gallier (she/her)
*Listen in and treat your ears with some love for worms: www.post-cie.com/earthwormdialogues* 
*dance artist www.post-cie.com*
*gardener and co-host www.lesminiees.org*
*part-time researcher Lectorate Amsterdam School of Theatre and Dance*
*head-heart THIRD program (DAS/ATD)*

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