Class today is Contemporary Dance w/ Hilde Sandvold
In Hilde’s class dancers will practice, find and define tools to support you in becoming amazing movers, performers and choreographers.
The first part of the class comprises a simple warmup or ‘drills for skills’ — basic work that gets you warm and checks balance, mobility and coordination through practical exercises and simple floor-work in shorter and longer phrases. You will work to increase the amount of readily available habits in your bodies, and with an awareness of avoiding and preventing injury.
The last chapter and dessert of the class is ‘coordination’. This chapter starts with physical coordination exercises, practicing how to combine different shapes and rhythmical patterns in different parts of the body. The coordination practice will help you to understand how many options are available, and is a way to keep challenging the neuroplasticity of your brain.
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About Hilde
Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold is a dancer and choreographer. She got her official education from The Danish National School of Performing Arts, graduating in 2013.
Working as a dancer, she has collaborated with a vast number of choreographers and companies throughout Europe; Oona Doherty, David Zambrano, Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez, Hofesh Shechter, Tina Tarpgaard, Kitt Johnson, Taneli Törmä, Edhem Jesenkovic, Martin Forsberg and Andreas Constantinou to name a few. She is currently to be seen in Navy Blue by Oona Doherty, which is touring Europe and North America (including singular destinations in Asia).
Hilde has created a number of solo works, performed in 13 countries to date. Among them, Dans, for Satan, chosen for AEROWAVES and ICE-HOT 2018, and more recently the full scale production grått. Hilde has also created works on company Corpus at the Danish Royal Theatre; Mother in 2019, and the piece shuffle play which was meant to premiere in 2021 (premiere covid-cancelled). Upcoming pieces are Petroleum which will premiere March 2024, and all that I have, premiering in spring 2025.
The body is the core of Hilde’s practice. Her work aims to understand the body, and the act of being a body, through and in different contexts. Hilde’s works are physical and raw, created with a sense of DIY. Her performance-style is unhinged, ensuring unfiltered meetings with audiences, often laced with poetic potential.
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