Education
Laura Vanhulle is an experienced practitioner and is fast emerging as one of the UK’s most active, high-powered creative talents.
Sharing her approaches, she brings her own creative practice to the studio,
delivering highly physical contemporary dance with burning energy and diligence.
Using her background in Cunningham as a baseline, her classes combine multiple
influences – her strength as an ex-gymnast, the grounding and core of African
dance, the fluidity and circularity of Kathak and the vitality and floor work from Flying
-Low to create a refined flowing, strength based movement vocabulary. Laura’s
philosophy of dance integrates yoga practise, use of breath and movement with a
conscious intent.
Professional Development
Laura Vanhulle regularly contributes to the programme of well-respected dance organisations in the UK.
Pro-classes
Make use of the whole body: hone technique, fluid dynamic movement phrases that strengthen and challenge your physical capabilities, use breath and develop speed through unbroken fast-moving Flying-Low.
Take part in drop-in classes.
4 SERIES - LIVE ONLINE CLASSES
Join Laura Vanhulle for the 4 Series, live streaming professional contemporary classes. These highly physical classes draw on multiple influences to build strength, technique and stamina.
Dates: Sunday 24 | 31 May & 7 June 2020
Time: 1pm-2pm
E-mail lauravanhulle@hotmail.co.uk for ZOOM link
Higher Education
All year round, the company work closely with number of universities in the UK to provide high level training for students undertaking vocational dance and performing arts training. Options include:
yin residency
Develop and nurture creativity and performance skills, students to devise and perform as an integral part of the yin production.
Days beginning with a through warm up and high-level technique class to prepare the body and move into repertoire and creative tasks that authentically convey and externalize female energies.
Students work collaboratively with each other, have freedom to question and delve, and work with the same concepts and many aspects of R&D creative processes used to create yin.
A 2-3 day residency provide the chance for students to experience both dance and music with members of the yin cast, all have wide-ranging experience of teaching and facilitating.
To request repertoire workshops based on Vanhullle Dance Theatre’s past productions: Angles in Life, Echo, Infinite Womanhood or Half Light, please contact the company via the contact page.
VDT Workshops
delivered
nationally and internationally
THE EXPRESSIVE BODY
Focus: embodiment & choreographic creation
Suitable for universities and conservatoires, this intensive provides dancers with the opportunity to expand, advance and shape their own artistic practice.
Delivered in half or full or day sessions, this intensive begin with a movement class that energises the whole body through the chakra system. Dancers will feel empowered to work experimentally with given tasks and improvisation, to devise and translate ideas into artistic material.
The Expressive Body encourages creative thinking and new thought processes that enable dancers to more openly, tap into the emotional senses and risk take. These intensives support the development of choreographic skills and are ideal for students and dancers making their own work. At the end of the day a participants have the option to share personal outcomes.
Add the Expressive Body flyer
Touching Base
Placing freedom and limitations in one space and you find the key to infinite possibilities
Laura Vanhulle and Judith Clijsters (both choreographers/dancers) met during their dance training in the UK. Ever since they share similar ideas about movement and performance. For this workshop they use contemporary dance, choreography, yoga and body-conditioning methods as an anchor point. Through movement and play, they will guide you towards new possibilities of your physicality, your structure and your performance practice. The workshop covers aspects of dance technique, choreography, improvisation and creative skills. It can result in a short, informal sharing of the work.Laura Vanhulle and Judith Clijsters deliver movement workshops nationally and Internationally
The base of the workshop:
Play - Move - Connect - Share
Play- “Welcome to the game of creativity.
We are all looking for ways to express ourselves through play, experiment and improvisation. Without obligations and where mistakes don’t exist. Like a playground. How much experience is needed in dance or in life to express something meaningful?
Move- “Movement is dance and dance is movement. Very Simple. Just like our constant moving breath.
Through somatic (body) work, improvisation, physical tasks, choreography and movement composition we will zoom into the functioning of our body. The ’I’ in relationship to another individual as well as to the ‘group’. By receiving and giving support we will discover many possibilities and limitations to meet our strengths and our weaknesses.
Connect- “Wired through touch
By moving together we connect with each other differently. The physical body is our largest tool to communication with, yet we emphasize importance to communicate through words. Energy and body language is a fantastic way of conversing and a way of expressing and channelling energy in a new way in relationship to others. This is important to study. How to pronounce, how to invite, how to say no? How to care for yourself?
Share: “Leaving a trace
Sharing what we’ve learned, emphasises our learning curve. We work towards a sharing, where everyone has a voice or space to express themselves in this universal language. We are all connected, is the motto and through our body we discover a new way, a new layer and a new zone of sharing something unique. Its an invitation to collaborate through freedom and finding new tools softly inspired by a yoga philosophy and dance history.
Summer edition 2017 special thanks to ccBerchem for studio space and hosting
Next edition 2018, stay connected
Young People
Vanhulle Dance Theatre want to encourage and inspire young people to be creative.
We can offer exciting creative and performance focused workshops and curtain raiser activity to youth dance companies, CAT programmes and dance and dance groups that want create and perform original new work.
All work delivered with groups is carefully and individually.
Vanhulle Dance Theatre’s minimum requirements are:
● clean, spacious dance studio or hall with a suitable floor
● access to sound equipment and connections for a laptop or iPhone
● support staff: a teacher or group leader to present during all activities
● on-site parking for one vehicle
● the total number of workshop participants is depending on the request
Note: for performance-led and curtain raiser activity the company may request groups source costumes.
To discuss a workshop and cost, please get in touch via the contact page.
Mentorships
VDT provide 1:1 CPD sessions to emerging dance artists who wish to broaden their choreographic skills and thinking and develop their own approach to dance making.
In 2019, Laura Vanhulle developmental support to three emerging female artists Vidya Patel, Anaya Bolar and Fleur Hall in developing their own practice.