Welcoming back renowned artist, Brigel Gjoka, from our 2015 edition.

This workshop offers an opportunity to explore the groundbreaking choreographic methods of William Forsythe. At the center of this exploration is Improvisation Technologies, a movement vocabulary and research practice developed by Forsythe that has profoundly shaped the way dancers and choreographers approach movement, structure, and composition. Drawing from an ongoing collaboration of more than 15 years, Brigel Gjoka will share the foundational principles of Forsythe’s improvisational approach. Participants will be guided through practical exercises that embody these principles, while also engaging with the deeper layers of thinking and perception.

In this workshop, dancers will investigate how spatial thinking, geometric tasks, and kinetic imagination open pathways to movement beyond habitual patterns. Through these explorations, the body becomes a thinking instrument, an active site of analysis, invention, and creation. Participants will be encouraged to compose the space through multiple approaches, discovering different ways of organizing, layering, and transforming their movement.

Participants will also dive into Forsythe’s repertoire, using the vocabulary to understand how to embody and internalize the underlying mechanics. Through deconstructing excerpts from the repertoire and improvising within them, participants will gain deeper insight into how Forsythe’s concepts operate within the choreographic material.