Threading Theatre

holding on + going through = 🔗 & 🌀 This Sunday in LONDON 🇬🇧 _ Collab Workshop _ by @drew_worldx & @justin.dejager ARMS | Spirals & Threads —— Sunday 17 May | 13:00-16:00 Create + Destroy, Platfrom East Studios Hackney Central —— During the 3-hour session, we will both co-facilitate the space with ideas and propositions regarding our individual research around ARMS. Expect spirals, threads, lots of connection and somatic principals to move the arms - as a whole. DM for info \ registration

[backspaces] 🔗 Sunday - London - A workshop dedicated to the backspace Threading Theatre Method @sael_petit ~ @_lauriecase_ ~ @justin.dejager

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Threading Theatre Workshop London 🇬🇧 📅 Su 19 Apr | 12:30-16:30 📍@createdestroystudios - Hackney Central, Platform East Studios Theme: [backspaces] How to become a four limb contorionist? Don’t worry. No specific shoulder mobility required. Nor specific dance training. Just curiosity and eagerness to explore possibilities. [] for information and registration only 20 spots available Come & Explore some backspaces with us! —— 👥: @_lauriecase_ & @justin.dejager 🎥: @sael_petit

To be loved is to be understood. Snippets from a conversation between @_lauriecase_ and @justin.dejager 🔗 Clarity in Communication - was the theme of the last community day. We worked on the quality of listening by receiving through a clean filter and patience. The quality of a threading exchange depends on the quality of your communication. Are you clear with your actions? Are you able to receive the feedback from the other while you give? Are you moving towards the same goal? Many layers got exposed. Luckily we have clear exercises to navigate these waters. You want to try? Every first Saturday of the month is our Threading Theatre Community Day. A space to connect, dive into the language of threading and explore your embodiment within. Upcoming workshops: - London | Sunday, 19 April - Utrecht | Saturday, 2 May [collaboration workshop between @justin.dejager & @drew_worldx ] ARMS - spirals & threads Also, our yearly Movement Retreat is happening 3-8 August in Drenthe, The Netherlands. Information will be online soon. Can’t wait? DM @justin.dejager for all the info.

A fragment of @justin.dejager & @sael_petit combining the idea of the front / backdoor weave with the portal passage. [read below for explanation of the terminology] We will working with this exact frame on Saturday during the workshop part of the community day. -> 4th of April | Threading Theatre Community Day #4 📍Utrecht, NL [] for info / registration —— This footage was recording during our intensive at @bluebox.hub in Vienna. Thank you @raphaelmiroholzer for the trust and @ja_collective for linking us up. —— Front / Back door: Every opening has two sides it can be entered from. A front door and a back door. Portal: Openings that have the capacity for a full body to pass through. Frame of video: - One limb threads through one door, another limb through the other door. - Once inside the opening, the hand and foot find each other. - Original grips releases, one of the limbs stays inside the opening and the rest of the body travels all the way through the portal. - Repeat this order and play with all the possibilities within. - Eventually you can leave this frame to enter free exploration, knowing you can always return to this idea when you get lost. This is one of many frames within the Threading Theatre Method. Come and experience it for yourself. Soon we will announce the dates of all our upcoming workshops and yearly Movement Retreat. Until then, commit to a grip and explore all the possibilities that come from holding on.

Two highlights of a threading exchange between @justin.dejager & @tiamayhockey at the jam of the community day. Come and explore with us some complex body mapping between limbs in space this Saturday. -> 4 April | Threading Theatre Community Day #4 Workshop, exploration, jam. All day. Open for everyone. [] - info & registration

Next week on Saturday - April 4th- we have another round of the Threading Theatre Community Day at our studio in Utrecht. 🔗 Theme: Clarity in Communication [between you and your body / you and the other] Facilitated by @justin.dejager & @sael_petit Check out the link in our bio for all the information and description of the program. If you can’t make it for the entire day or it sounds overwhelming if you come for the first time, you can always just come for the workshop and pay a reduced fee. Don’t be shy - Let’s connect, understand, hold on and go through, together! 🫂 DM @justin.dejager if you have any questions.

Brothers at #SMYM last Friday in Ulm, Germany. After winning the performance award from @tanzlabor.ulm at Hannover Choreography Competition, @pablosansalvador invited the brothers to perform at Show Me Your Moves at @roxy.ulm . Like always they had a blast. Diving once more in the autobiographic piece about their brotherhood and all the dynamics that the relationship brings. Credits Brothers Company: @threadingtheatre Choreography / performance: @justin.dejager & @semdelivery_ Original score: @andreas.tegnander Lighting design: @justin.dejager Supported by: @wijzijndox , @korzotheater , Stichting Sample Culture & @fondspodiumkunsten Photo credit @flaviamash_photography with kind permission from @tanzlabor.ulm & @roxy.ulm

SA 7 MARCH -> Threading Theatre Community Day #3 📍Utrecht, The Netherlands Program: 11:00-14:00 | Workshop 15:00-18:00 | Research + Creation 19:00-21:30 | Jam This community day is an opportunity for everyone who wants to learn, connect and exchange through the language of threading. We structured the program in a way that is accessible for everyone. No dance experience needed, just curiosity! What to expect? Workshop: For everybody who wants to learn the fundamentals of threading. In this workshop we will dive into different elements of the language and learn the methodology to put the principles into action. This is the moment to become a student once more, to be curious and to play, wherever you are in your movement practice. Research + Creation: From the learning we go into playing. We dive deeper into the theatricality of the language. As a group and individually there is a freedom to explore concepts and patterns while having a shared vocabulary and grammar to work with. Jam: To meet, to greet, to dare to go and find the unknown. The evening arrives and at this time we allow our brains to go silent and to surrender to the body. Together we carry the space, creating safety to go into your bubble or daring to meet and to find the inbetween space together. Let’s go! Fee for the entire day is 40 euros. If you only want to come for the workshop, the fee is 30 euros. Register your spot on or DM @justin.dejager for questions. Hope to see you there! 🫶🏻🔗🫂🤍

Jamming is the best way to put your mind in the passengers seat and let the body drive. After a full day of exploration through clear principals, we understood the task and invited play to guide us. Taking each others to places that we always knew existed. If you want to experience the world of threading - Come to the Threading Theatre Community Day this Saturday 7th of March. Full program with a workshop [facilitated by @sael_petit ], space for open research and once more diving into the world through a jam in the evening. The community day is open for everyone. No dance experience needs, just curiosity and commitment. Go to link in our bio for all information and registration. Hope to dance with you coming Saturday! 🫂🔗🤍