Katharina Conradi

Researcher, Embodied Knowledge in Theatre and Dance
Teacher, Mime & Amsterdamse Toneelschool & Kleinkunstacademie

I am educated as a Dancer/ Choreographer, Certified Movement Analyst, Master Dance Therapy and Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist. I have been working as a choreographer and dancer in the Netherlands and abroad for thirty years. My creative work includes dance movies, intercultural projects and site-specific performances. I am teaching dance at the University of the Arts Codarts in Rotterdam and at the Academy for Dance and Theatre in Amsterdam to physical actors, dancers, circus artists and dance therapists. I work internationally as a teacher for somatic and creative practice in different settings in Spain, Estonia, Israel, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and New York. Together with Marieke Delannoy I co-founded EMOVE Institute, an educational institute for Laban Bartenieff Movement Systems in the Netherlands.

Research
The embodied research of Space - in and around us. The experience of space is fascinating to me. Often, we are unaware of how space influences us in our daily life and art. But we react upon the spaces we are in, the shapes of objects we see, and we move accordingly in relation to them. We are influenced by our environment and directly connected to it. In Rudolph Laban’s work ‘Space Harmony’, we work with the Platonic Solids as a model to experience space and its infinitive directions and pathways from within. In my small research I strive to practice different scales (in collaboration with students) and get familiar with many different space experiences, especially with the Icosahedron. Space highlights the fact that everything is connected and movable. Trisha Brown, Willi Dorner and William Forsythe’s view on how to use aspects of the environment and geometry formed my desire to investigate space further.