WINTER WARMING NEW YORK 2025
January 22-24, 10am-6pm at Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn NY
Countertechnique Founder Anouk van Dijk returns to New York! This three-day workshop offers fresh fuel for the year ahead. How to add longevity to your dance career? How to keep things interesting for yourself? Our ever-changing bodies need different care and stimulants every single day, and in this workshop, we look at how to keep a positive and creative work ethic, even when circumstances are not in our favour.
The workshop will start with a 2hr Countertechnique class, followed by a 1hr Practical Tools session, which will introduce different tools each day. After lunch, we will bring Countertechnique Tools into creation and performance, and explore how specific tools and tasks can support us beyond the class format. Departing from some of Anouk’s choreographic working methods, we will look at the eb and flow of the creation process, performance seasons and touring. How to tackle the challenges we encounter, and remain inspired in a creative, proactive, and sustainable way?
The Countertechnique class and Practical Tools session are all about enabling dancers to move bigger, more fluidly and more spatially, while becoming more aware of their surroundings. The creative workshop segment will be aimed at professional dance artists and senior dance students who look for inspiration to contribute in the creative process, as well as to keep dancing interesting while maintaining a healthy and joyful work ethic. Be prepared to work proactively, think creatively, and perform at a high physical level.
DATES
Wednesday 22 January – Friday 24 January
All days: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Participants must be able to attend the entire period.
PROGRAM FEES
The full cost for the workshop is 480 USD. Late cancellation options are available.
Limited availability. Participation on a first-come, first-serve basis.
HOW TO REGISTER
Please register your personal details here: https://form.jotform.com/242623733167356. No registration fee is required.
LOCATION
The OBOC will be held at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY. We will primarily be using the Duffy Performance Space, measuring 60’ x 60’.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Dancers need to declare fitness to participate in the training, waive all liability for the organiser, respect house rules of the venue, agree for their image to be captured and agree to refund conditions. All payments are non-refundable and non-transferable, unless a late cancellation option is added.
WINTER WARMING 2025 FACULTY
Anouk van Dijk
Anouk van Dijk is a choreographer, artistic director and the creator of the movement system, Countertechnique. From 2012 - 2019, she was the Artistic Director of renowned contemporary dance company Chunky Move in Melbourne, Australia. Currently Anouk van Dijk works internationally as a freelance choreographer and is the Artistic Director of Countertechnique.
Anouk van Dijk spent the first ten years of her career as a lead soloist for Rotterdam Dance Company and Amanda Miller’s Pretty Ugly Dance Company. From early on, she was attracted to choreography and from the late nineties committed herself exclusively to the conception, creation and performance of her own work. In 1999, Van Dijk founded her own company, anoukvandijk dc, dedicated to creating work that sought to provide an insight into the many facets of the human experience through the lens of contemporary dance.
During her tenure of Artistic Director of Chunky Move in Melbourne, Australia, she created several large scale productions, amongst others An Act of Now (2012), Complexity of Belonging (2014, with Falk Richter), Depth of Field (2015), Rule of Thirds (2016), Common Ground (2018). In recent years, she created amongst other Distant Matter for Staatsballet Berlin, followed by the multi-disciplinairy show TOUCH with writer/director Falk Richter at the Münchner Kammerspiele in Germany, and Out of the Blue for Skånes Dansteater / Malmö Opera in Sweden, a large-scale work on music from Bach to Björk with the Malmö Opera Orchestra and Children's Choir. Anouk is currently preparing new creations for the Hessische Staatsballett, Theater Münster, and a new cross-disciplinary collaboration with writer/director Falk Richter for SchauSpielhaus Hamburg.
In her career Anouk van Dijk has created more than thirty full-length works that toured to the world’s leading festivals and venues including Adelaide Festival, Sydney Opera House, Schaubuehne Berlin, Dance Triennale Tokyo, American Dance Festival, Theater der Welt (Hamburg), SPRING International Performing Arts Festival and Festival d'Avignon.
Read more about Anouk in this interview
Francesca Dominguez (Assistant Teacher)
Raised in Sebastopol, CA, Francesca is a movement artist based in New York City. She first came into contact with Countertechnique while transitioning from college into her professional career, and it has since become an indispensable resource for herself as a dancer. Having nurtured her relationship with Countertechnique and its vibrant community since 2016, she has attended three One Body One Career Intensives, and in 2021 completed the Countertechnique Teacher Training Program (CTTT), followed by her second CTTT in 2023.
Francesca honed her artistic voice as a choreographer and performer during her time at California State University Long Beach, where she graduated with a BFA in dance and a BA in Spanish language. She furthered her training at the Alonzo King Lines Ballet Training Program, while also working as the executive coordinator of the non-profit educational outreach organization, Dance Repertory San Francisco. She has performed professionally with companies GRAYSCALE and Keith Johnson/Dancers in Los Angeles. Francesca currently dances with SOLUQ Dance Theater NY, completed her MFA at Hunter College, New York in 2021.
As a Teacher Countertechnique, she is a part of the dance faculty at Gibney Pro and the Juilliard School, New York, and teaches in New York every month at various locations, including Gibney, Mark Morris Dance Center, Peridance and Barnard College. She was part of the faculty for One Body, One Career 2024 Countertechnique Intensive in Los Angeles.