Kreativer Kindertanz (4-6 years)
natural playing - wonderful dances - surprising encounters
We roll on the floor, scuttle like bugs, side by side, and slide through under other kids, slip along other kids‘ bodies like on a slide and land softly on the floor as if it was a pillow. We jump around like rubber balls, catch each other, tumble, roll, fly with the support of others, play like young dogs, are smooth and silent like cats on velvet paws, sometimes scuffle wildly. We crawl close to the floor like lizards, sink onto the floor like a melting icicle. We let our bodies get heavy like sacks of flour, to become light as a feather and twirl through space in the very next moment.
Childrens‘ joy in motion, their natural impulse to move forms the core and starting point of this workshop. Kids follow their natural impulse to move, supported by their natural motion. Forms like running, jumping, spinning, sneaking, walking, crawling, rolling will be taken and varied creativitely.
In our fantasy and imagination we become dancing animals, plants, objects and more. Materials like tissue, paper, ropes and music of different kinds, from Bach to African folk-songs inspire us to diverse qualities of movement. New things will be tried in a play like manner.
Small Choreografies are based on songs, sayings and rhymes, spontaniously picked up by the childrens‘ impulse to imitate and memorised through repetition. Thereby the feeling for rhythm, body and motion is experienced. The unity of the sense for motion and the outer form is expressed.
In all those processes we are accompanied by imaginative power, inner images and fantasy, movement-games and dance lead us through wild and animate sequences to quiet, focused action and to relaxing moments. Thus the variety of movement is expanded.
In this variety the children can express their own personality and individuality by dancing.
Inge KaindlstorferInge Kaindlstorfer is living in Vienna and is teaching body work, contemporary technique, Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation and Improvisation, as well as Composition a.o. in Vienna, Moscow, Odessa, Lisbon, Cape Verde, New York and Bucharest since 1986.
Since many years she works as a performer with the company Lux Flux in Vienna. Her works have been collaborating with the Saira-Blanche-Theatre in Moscow and have been shown at festivals such as ImPulsTanz 1997 and 1998, Wiener Festwochen in 1999 and tanz2000.at, in Austria and Cape Verde, Germany and many countries of Eastern Europe.
Photo: Workshops 2009 © Elisabeth Stoeckl