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teaching and intentt

 The teaching and training, contemporary, ballet and partnering, of Jens Bjerregaard, are all structured around a common frame - INTENTT - a thinking around dancing emphasizing body knowledge, sensory and tactile approaches without loosing track of historical and artistic context.


INTENTT is a thinking about training and dancing that combines aspects of performing - both in historically as well as considering a more contemporary approach to performing, thus finding logic and functionality in the work. As INTENTT work is embracing Contemporary, Partnering and Ballet we aim at using a teaching language and input that is universal and does not limit itself within a style.  


In contemporary there is fundamental work on body functionality - not the least the work, architecture and functionality of the spine and the simple presence in space.


In Partnering we deal with the intertwined relationship between the functional and emotional body.


In Ballet we work on understanding our existence in front of an audience (en place, en face, decors/dedans) looking at the technique as a tool to communicate. You cannot free ballet from it’s somewhat dubious history - knowing it is to liberate yourself from it, but you can use ballet as a tool for movement and body understanding.

Dance classes and workshops

Class #1 Flow and awareness

Class #1 Flow and awareness

Class #1 Flow and awareness

The Contemporary class of Jens Bjerregaard is based freely on Cunningham, yoga and release technique. The technical work emphasizes flow and solid body awareness - always conscious of creating and understanding connections within the body and beyond. The dancers are challenged to explore their possibilities and go further then their perceived limits.

 The physical body and the memory are explored equally thus creating a practical awareness and functional development of the movement.


 In all exercises and corrections, you need to consider that you are  dealing with an art form, an expression being conveyed to an audience,  if you limit yourself to just the mechanics you are doing yourself and  the dancer a disservice. We should work on possibilities and the range  of time, space, and the body itself – and not create limitations.

Class #2 Ballet re-explored

Class #1 Flow and awareness

Class #1 Flow and awareness

A challenging and fluid ballet class that explores not only the aesthetics of ballet but also the functionality of movement and its origins free from mannerisms and other restrictions.


Behind the traditions of ballet there lies a logic and a functionality that can inform the performer.

The  aim of this class is to demystify complicated technicalities and become aware of the  chain of responses the body goes through to make movement happen freely  and willingly. 


The class  breaks with the traditional use of piano music and instead, the dancing  is explored in relation to an eclectic range of music giving the  dancers new musical experiences in relation to the ballet form.


The  class is aimed at contemporary and other dancers who want to become  smarter movers and use the ballet language as a foundational training  tool for dance.

Class #3 Moving Together

Class #1 Flow and awareness

Class 4# Back to Basics

  In this practical and fun class on partnering, the dancers/choreographers are invited to explore a range of practical tools for partnering. 


It is an invitation for them to learn a sound and well founded way of working with a partner, a way that adapts to all movement styles and backgrounds. 


The emphasis will be on the 
fulfillment and freedom of the movement within a clear and user friendly partnering language.

Class 4# Back to Basics

Workshop #2 Making and Breaking

Class 4# Back to Basics

  Dance professionals as well as non-professionals run into the same obstacles due to dysfunctional strength and unhealthy body alignment. 


Developing your core strength is like giving yourself a body makeover: this goes beyond superficial strength training and asks a balanced development of the  body.


 Simple exercises  mostly  travelling  across  the  floor  and  inspired   from Animal movement, Sports Science, Pilates and Yoga, will release the tension that the body retains and allow a smooth functioning of all the joints for a healthy, pain-free posture and for increased stability in motion. 

Workshop #1 Visiting Movement

Workshop #2 Making and Breaking

Workshop #2 Making and Breaking

In spite of trends and fashions, Bjerregaard has persistently followed his own choreographic direction; he is extremely aware of form. His language is playful, yet sophisticated, both in his choice of music and artistic vision. His style is spellbinding and displays a certain ‘Scandinavian feel’, based on a consciousness of form and visual design. In this workshop, dancers are invited to visit choreographic material and to explore their own –new- abilities inside it.

Workshop #2 Making and Breaking

Workshop #2 Making and Breaking

Workshop #2 Making and Breaking

   The aim of this workshop is to give experienced, as well as dance novices, a series of tools to create their own movement material. Using improvisational exploration based on clear and precise movement exercises, we will be exploring and expanding our thinking behind movement – creating an understanding of structure and freedom in dance. By accessing spacial awareness and the functionality of the body we allow movements to be constructed and deconstructed without predetermination. 

  

Dance classes and workshop videos

Beijing Dance camp, 2019

Moving together workshop with students from China, Australia,  USA, Taiwan and Hong Kong

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