Marlene Bonnesen
dance artist
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Teaching / Open Training
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Training
Open Training is for anyone who wants to increase
their body awareness. Beginners and professionals alike are welcome – and all
levels can benefit from the training. It is a dynamic,
powerful training across the floor, accompanied by music. It works through every
part of the body effectively, strengthening your endurance, mobility,
coordination, rhythmicality, and balance. Awareness of center, alignment,
grounding, breathing, time, and space is enhanced.
The training is a delicate
mixture of Western dance forms and MB (muscle bone or mind body: the physical
training component of Butoh dancer Min Tanaka’s Body Weather approach).
The training almost works
as a meditative practice for me due to the length of the training, the
consistency, and the depth of exercises. By insisting on this type of training,
I feel that my core practice as a dancer is maintained and fulfilled on
many levels.
I have been part of
the teaching team of Open Training in Copenhagen since 2018, and I have
practiced the training since 2015. It is taught by a training
community consisting of choreographers, dancers and performers. Based on this
shared format we each give our own individual interpretation to the training.
Read more about the community and training
here: http://opentrainingenglish.weebly.com