Throwback to X-Week

During an X-Week, the normal schedule of the school is suspended. Invited artists can work a whole week with the students, in or outside school. For our Generation XV, their first X-week was hosted by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and assisted by Clinton Stringer.

Throughout the week, students delved into various movement principles developed by Anne Teresa in her own practice, specifically working with the five transformations of energy or qi.

By exploring different energetic qualities, the dancers worked to embody these transformations in concrete ways, whilst also recognising where movement originates from, or is initiated in the body. Through improvisation and instant composition, these explorations evolved into solos, duets, and collective movements.vExpanding their research to include spatial awareness and rhythm, the dancers were challenged to find connections between movement, environment and music.

The students also engaged with the choreographic principles used by Rosas in the creation of Exit Above. They were challenged to incorporate these ideas and develop their own variations of Exit Above.

From exploring the neighbourhood and moving with the landscape, to dancing in the studio, it was a week filled with new ideas as well as creation and stimulation.

𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘑𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘦𝘯 𝘎𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴