Looking for fresh creative inspiration?

Discover how movement can unlock new ways of thinking, writing and creating. In this experimental two-day workshop, you'll explore the connection between body and text through a series of playful writing and movement exercises.

Through a series of guided exercises, you'll work with both movement and creative writing. You'll write from observation, respond to images and everyday objects, and discover how movement can unlock new perspectives and creative possibilities.

No dance or writing experience is required. The workshop is open to anyone who enjoys exploring, creating and trying something new in a supportive environment.

Worms Play Ice refers to earthworms as poetic companions: a playful way of thinking about connection, movement and the living world around us. Don't worry, there won't be any actual worms in the workshop.

What to expect

• Creative writing exercises
• Movement and improvisation tasks
• Individual and collaborative work
• Reading, writing and reflection
• A welcoming space for experimentation and curiosity

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. 

Helena Grande is a writer, curator, and educator. She is the author of the flash fiction collection titled Speech Choke (2020). Her writing has appeared in Milk Press, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Fictional Journal, nY, and diSONARE among others. helena holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School in New York and her work has received support from Het Cultuurfonds, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, The New School, and WriteOn NYC. She is currently working on a new book.