Do you want to learn the language and logic of your own body?
About Double Skin/Double Mind the dance method
Double Skin/Double Mind (DS/DM) is the dance method of Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten. You discover the sensitivity of your body through the basic principles of Breathing, Jumping, Expanding and Reducing. You need the sensitivity for the possibilities that arise from your body when creating choreographic material. The method is therefore the basis of all performances by Greco and Scholten.
“DS/DM is a way of preparing the body for dance that is inherent to your thinking and your imagination. It needs a connection with your own choices, also during the improvisation with other elements and choreographic materials. The experience creates a condition and an opening, it is not something fixed by rules that say: this is how you should dance. It is rather the opposite, you use it, and then you contrast it in an open field of intervention and manipulation.”
— Emio Greco
We offer the DS/DM method in master classes, training courses and workshops for professionals and amateurs. With the DS/DM method you achieve a new physical and mental awareness in which intention and form coincide. DS/DM also gives you insight into the artistic work of the choreographers.
Double Skin/Double Mind was created in 1997. Greco and Scholten were asked to give a workshop during the International Tanzwochen in Vienna. The request raised crucial questions. What is the essence of our work? What is a workshop? And: How do you transfer a dance language based on intuition to another?
The Double Skin/Double Mind method that came into being is now being taught worldwide, used as daily dance training and as preparation in creative processes. Transfer, the fifth principle of the workshop, offers room for reflection and for the transfer of the repertoire of Greco and Scholten. The method is essential in the transfer to our own dancers, in education, in the lessons to dance students and amateur dancers, and recently also to school children, and to managers and employees in the business world.
DS/DM is an important source for our research projects with national and international partners, such as Capturing Intention (2009), Inside Movement Knowledge (2010) and Choreographic Coding Labs (2017). The Sensorium Toolkit for Dance, a teaching method for children, launched in 2017, is also based on DS/DM.
DS/DM Teacher Training
Since 2017, we have been training our former dancers to become certified DS/DM teachers. From 2021, dancers from outside the company are also be able to obtain their DS/DM certificate. You will learn to transfer the workshop structure of the DS/DM method via the basic principles of Breathing, Jumping, Expanding and Reducing. The DS/DM Basic certificate allows you to teach amateurs, children and youngsters in regular education, in pre-professional education, in cultural programmes and in private studios. Teaching at dance academies (BA + MA level), higher education (Universities) and dance professionals or dance companies is not possible with this certificate.
After your DS/DM Basic certificate, you can expand your knowledge to DS/DM Basic+. You will then go deeper into the creative aspects of DS/DM via the Pre-choreographic Elements and the Sensorium Toolkit.
The DS/DM teacher training for dancers from outside the ICK Company consists of the following working sessions:
- Phase I: learning the principles: Breathing, Jumping, Expanding, Reducing and philosophical background
- Phase II: deepening the principles, developing your DS/DM teaching practice, individual feedback sessions
- Phase III: solidifying teaching practice, final learning and teaching moments, evaluation
During the working sessions, you will be taught by founder Emio Greco and former and current dancers of ICK. In order to obtain the certificate, you must participate in all sessions. In between the working sessions, we ask you to continue with your own lessons, so that you immediately gain experience in processing and transferring the information. During the last working session, we will evaluate your learning process and determine if you obtain the certificate.
Application criteria:
- Experience in the dance field (a request for videos in performance and improvisation will be included in the application process)
- Have experienced at least 10 sessions of DS/DM with certified teachers
More info mail to SuzanTunca@ickamsterdam.nl
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