02/11/2013
The Body Workshop
The body workshop is performing arts based project. It is concerned with improving the abilities of human body activity, communication, and creativity. The Body Workshop's various classes work with the participants to prepare and develop the bodily performance, participation, and creativity.
This is done through 4 different workshop-based class series:
1- The Body plays (kids – performing arts based class 3-6 & 7-12yrs)
2- The Body acts ( 18+ - performing arts based class)
3- The Body moves ( 18+ movement based class - conditioning)
4- The Body dances ( 18+ dance based class )
1- The Body Plays
(a 60 mins or 75mins class)
is a class which is designed for kids.
The Classes work with the kid in a gathering team-work environment, using theatre, and dance exercises, and games, advocating imagination, body work, collective activity & brain storming, individual creativity, encourages trying, and productivity. The content of each class is developed to ensure that all activities are age appropriate.
The Body Plays focuses on story telling, story acting, physical and creative play including relatively advanced characterization, and performance skills according to age group . We consider basic ethical values such as braveness, openness, accepting the different, self-acceptance, critical thinking, problem solving, and encourages positive respect for life.
2- The Body Moves
(90 mins class)
This is a class designed for 18+
The classes work with the participant on improving body awareness, posture, mobilization, strength, power, freeing imagination, aiming at processing a freer movement and a comfortably working body. This workshop helps the participant to be more aware of his body and physical actions. It helps the body to find out what is necessary to be freer of extra tension, and possessing the needed strength for individual physicality. The class in one part uses exercises from diverse backgrounds to support the idea of preparing the body - with care for individual needs - to move better with ease. In the second part the class uses dance/theatre-based games and exercises, to give the chance for each individual body to stride-out, wander with own body and imagination. Helping participants to create or embark their own moving journey using own unique free-form body movement.
3- The Body Dance
( 90 mins class)
this is a class designed for 18+ This is a contemporary dance based class. It works on intermediate level to suite promising contemporary dancers and contemporary dance lovers who had at least basic previous experience in dance or physical activities.
The class is developed to achieve a mixture of dance technique and creativity.
4- The Body Acts
(90 mins class)
This is a class designed for 18+
The Body Acts is a performing arts based class. It ideally suits promising actors or theatre lovers who had some experience in theatre work. The class is developed to achieve a mixture of technique, and creativity development and maintenance.
Classes run on Saturdays starting in December
Reservations need to be at least month in advance.
for reservations and inquiry reserve your place kindly contact:
To: [email protected]
Subject: The Body Workshop
All classes run in Arabic and English (if there is a necessity for that)
Every Saturday
At the Swiss Club Cairo
Classes schedule will be available for the participants at least two weeks before start date
