WhyNot Workshops
WhyNot x ADE: OFF VENUE programme
As a part of OFF VENUE, WhyNot organizes dance and movement workshops. This time, we have two workshops for you: a sensual body awareness workshop by OFF VENUE artist Sofie Kramer in Dance Space Destiny for all levels, and a workshop for professionals by Elisa Zuppini in Frascati about her fascinating movement practice. Check all details below!
When: 17 October | 20:00-21:15
Where: Dance Space Destiny, Rhoneweg 10, Amsterdam
Tickets: €10
Language: Dutch/English
Level: Open for everyone who is interested in exploring their body and movement. Please wear something comfortable (dancing is without shoes), and bring a water bottle or towel if you’d like.
In this workshop, physical performer and pole dancer Sofie Kramer will take you on a journey to connect to your sensual side and sink deeper into your body. She combines her practice as a pole dancer with movement techniques based on meditation and Taoism, creating a sense of bodily awareness that is about letting go and acceptance rather than living up to societal expectations around sensuality. In this workshop, it is not about being sexy. This workshop takes the word "erotics" to a more spiritual level, where surrendering to and deeply focusing on the senses provokes an honest sensuality, liberating not only muscles and joints but certainly the mind too!
Sofie will be performing herself during OFF VENUE. Read more here.
When: 22 October | 10:00 - 12:30
Where: Theater Frascati, Amsterdam
Tickets: €15
Language: English
Level: Professional dancers and people trained in movement. Please wear something comfortable (dancing is without shoes), and bring a water bottle or towel if you’d like.
In this workshop, participants will be invited into the atmospheres of the night, post-clubbing states, and altered modes of presence, where anonymity, depersonalized embodiment, and heightened sensory awareness open emergent ways of perceiving relation and presence in movement. Drawing from Elisa Zuppini’s ensemble work Disambiguation—which premiered at Frascati Theater in May 2025 with fifteen dancers, coproduced by WhyNot—participants will be introduced to the principles of her movement practice of decentralized relational systems, imagining the body as a sensitive entity with redistributed control across multiple, movable centers. After learning selected sequences from the choreography, they will be invited to re-compose and adapt the material through guided improvisations with the musical score of the piece. Together, participants will inhabit liminal and transitional spaces, where ambiguity becomes a generative force shaping tangible states of movement and collective presence.
WhyNot Workshops
WhyNot x ADE: OFF VENUE programme
As a part of OFF VENUE, WhyNot organizes workshops by the artists from the program. We have 2 workshops for you: a workshop by one of the performers of Katja Heitmann in the beautiful Vondelkerk for all levels, and a workshop for professionals by Guilherme Miotto.
When: 13 July | 10:30-12:00
Where: Vondelkerk, Amsterdam
Tickets: €15 €15 (please send us an email on info@festivalwhynot.nl to receive a payment link)
Language: English
Deadline: Limited spots available, please secure your spot before 10 July.
Level: Open for everyone (professional and amateurs) aged 16 and above who is interested in exploring the body and movement.
Teacher: Ornella Prieto, dancer/movement archivist with Motus Mori since 2019
What moves humankind? In the multi-year art project Motus Mori, Katja Heitmann collects and preserves human movement. Since 2019, more than 2000 people have already donated their personal movement to this embodied archive, an ever-growing foundation from which the choreographer creates new artworks.
Join us for an immersive workshop where you will get a physical insight into the Motus Mori movement archive. Learn the basics of the unique movement language of Motus Mori. How can you become more aware of your own movements and bodily characteristics? How do you embody the movements of some’body’ else? And how can you inherit those movements into your own body? Experience firsthand and in your own body what it means to be a movement archivist!
About Katia Heitmann
Katja Heitmann (1987, DE) is fascinated by the human attempt to escape their own mortality. This paradox is the muse of the movement archive Motus Mori. Katja Heitmann's choreographic work consists of extreme aesthetics, in sharp contrast to human fallibility. Her minimalistic and minutely designed imagery confronts viewers with a frantic flood of insights. As a choreographic sculptor, Katja is constantly searching for the core of her material. The universal character of her work makes it possible for anyone who wants to find their own entrance to the work. In 2016 Katja was awarded the Prize of the Dutch Dance Festival. In 2020 she was honored with the prestigious Gieskes Strijbis Podium-award, Netherlands' largest performing arts award.
The performance Motus Mori MUSEUM by Katja Heitmann is part of Julidans x WhyNot: OFF VENUE 2024. Read more here.
When: 11 July | 16:00 - 18:00
Where: Lucia Marthas Institute for Performing Arts, Studio 2, Lijnbaansgracht 260, Amsterdam
Tickets: €15
Register: Via Henny Jurriens Stichting
Deadline: Limited spots available, please secure your spot before 9 July.
Level: Professional dancers and people trained in movement.
Teacher: Guilherme Miotto
Miotto’s approach 'Instinctive Performance' is designed to cultivate the personal characteristics and impulses of the performers. The work sessions consist of assignments emerging from spontaneous and recurrent explorations into embodied cognition. Miotto works from the premise that assumptions about the world are built into the body and the brain and are largely determined by the form of the human body. During the working sessions, the body is opened to its own existing layers of instinctual physical knowledge triggered by movement, sounds, text, situation and escalating intensities.
The participants are given the space to resource and exercise their own repertoire of techniques along with their own stylistic preferences. The sessions create a context where these personal experiences are challenged to formulate new expressive tools. The in-depth psycho/physical work stimulates one to interact with and reshape their possible performance tactics. The 'Instinctive Performance' approach offers a mental and cardio training that assists in the discovery of multiple dimensions for performing states applicable towards various stage practices such as dance, theatre and mime.
About Guilherme
Guilherme Miotto (1979) is a Brazilian dancer/teacher/choreographer based in The Netherlands. Miotto has studied dance in Brazil, Russia, Germany and The Netherlands. As a dancer he featured in the works from choreographers: Emio Greco, Bruno Listopad, Krisztina de Chatel (a.o.). His choreographic work has received the following awards: in 2011 the Grand Prix of Kontrapunkt, the Magnolia Award (Szczecin, Poland) and the Best Film for Camera Rework Award at Cinedans Film Festival. In 2015, he received the André Gingras Award - this award goes to inventive choreographers who dare to risk venturing outside the established boundaries of contemporary dance. In 2016, he was the recipient of the stimuleringsprijs given by the city of Breda to exceptional and promising talents. In 2019, he was awarded the largest theater award in The Netherlands the Gieskes-Strijbs stage price. He has created work for a.o. Festival Boulevard, Festival Circolo, Festival Lieve Stad, Dansgroep Amsterdam, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, CaDance Festival, Fricties Festival (Hasselt, Belgium), Yorkshire Dance (Leeds). Since 2009 he has been teaching his own approach ‘Instinctive Performance’ at the Theatre Academy in Maastricht. He has also been invited to teach workshops at a.o. Atelier de Paris, OperaEstate Festival, and Edinburgh Festival. In 2017 he founded the company: Corpo Máquina Society (Tilburg/Breda).
The performance Mondo Perfetto by Guilherme Miotto is part of Julidans x WhyNot: OFF VENUE 2024.
Read more here.