We Dance Together

A new series of eight We Dance Together workshops will start on 20 October 2025 at ICK Dans Amsterdam.

Under the guidance of various renowned dance makers, you can participate in this dance workshop for dance enthusiasts, young and old, with or without dance experience, once a week (with exceptions) for eight weeks.

Are you an amateur or (semi)professional and do you enjoy dancing together? Join us and come dance at Space for Dance Art.

We Dance Together is suitable for all dance enthusiasts aged 15 and above (no upper age limit!).

This eight-session workshop is led by decolonial, queer Roma-Brazilian artist and director Thais Di Marco.

About the workshop —

THE OBSESSORS – Workshop on community rituals, dance and performance with Thais Di Marco

What forces drive our desires? How are our desires controlled by external forces? What do I really want? How can invisible influences be transformed into creative power? How can we dance to purify ourselves of what we no longer need?

Participants are invited to explore their own obsessions, demons and invisible companions and transform them through movement, performativity and composition. You will learn scores, warm-ups and choreographic tools that combine rigour and freedom – methods that Thais has developed in their teaching methodology Re-Telling Structures. This methodology destabilises dominant frameworks by replacing their key elements. One of the guiding principles in Thais' work is “to mobilize pain until it turns into possibility”. It is about making the invisible visible through artistic gestures.

The workshop focuses not on technical training, but on cultivating creativity and inventing your own processes for creation, performance, and composition. Each session will mix physical practices, collective games, and solo exploration, leading to the development of short performative pieces.

Thais’s artistic practice is what she describes as critical entertainment: a hybrid space between popular show, ritual, and experimental art. Her works combine comedy, horror, and ritualistic performance to entertain while also provoking the audience, creating a stage where social conflicts and invisible forces can be embodied, negotiated, and released.

Practical Information

Costs:
Total price €50,00 for a series of eight workshops

Language:
English

What days and times:
Monday evenings from 7.30 pm to 9 pm on 20 and 27 October and 3, 10, 17 and 24 November
Thursday evening from 7.30 pm to 9 pm on 13 November
There is an opportunity for a public presentation on Monday evening, December 1st, from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM.

Location:
ICK Dans Amsterdam / Space for Dance Art
Rijnlandlaan 3, 1062 MX Amsterdam (NL)

Any questions?
Contact Francesco Cutillo
Francescocutillo@ickamsterdam.nl

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