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EDUCATION


Art Human Nature is an Academy exploring experimental dance, performance and life art. It offers a creative body education, presenting a brain new line of modern direction of integrative body work in relation to art, human and nature.

The education has 2 lines; a fulltime certified education in one module for 6 month. Or a part time education in 6 modules: 3 longer intensive training modules, with the possibility of qualifying with 3 more modules of master classes.
See the actually year programmed for further description, dates and prices.

The certified education for 6th months:
A continually full-time training program, which gives more teaching hours than the module program and 2 further weeks in South France at our fantastic mountain farm, where the finally creative program integrate horse contact and a wonderful tour in the wild mountain landscape at horseback with tent etc.

The education gives you a certification to work professional with the Art Human Nature program, artistically and pedagogical as you get a solid practical and theoretical training with personal coach during 6 months education.

The 6 intensive training modules:
(All modules can be taking separated, in order of nomination).

1st & 2nd Module (10 weeks course).
Profound, basic techniques, intensive training which will develop and improve your talent and ability as a dancer, artist and body artist. Anita Saij is primarily teaching and passes on a deep knowledge and insight in body, mind and movement.

3rd Module (8 weeks course).
The accomplished knowledge will be challenged in artistic experiments. Your individual personal creative potential will be explored and further developed through a number of creative process which take place in an exciting environment
in the meeting with nature. You will become familiar with perpetuating, sounding,
posy, painting, staging, sculpturing, choreographing within hybrid forms of Butoh and others integrative experimental creative art.

4th -6th Modules. (2 weeks course 3 times).
Perspectives of your personal work. Full responsibility for larger creative size work. The master classes are done independently with guide response. You will take active part in planning and organizing the process of receiving instruction.
Choosing practice directions: performing, somatically, coaching, teaching etc..

International guest teachers will be representing after the 1 module at the education.

The teaching is given in comprehensive English, at the level of the group.
The international students can live and have lodging at the school, a great farm (Art Culture Center Baekkelund), which is situated at the beautifully nature Island Bornholm, central for the Baltic and Nordic Countries as well as Poland and Germany, only 3 hours from Copenhagen.

The Academy gives some of the low budget student’s possibilities of applying less price of the education (max 50%), In the meaning of work exchange.

The education accept 6 students at the certified education and around 6 students at the intensive training modules. Every year the Academy offers other intensive coursers and camps. The students at the education will have inspiration of collaborating with
guests and others groups.

The education is open for all who are interesting in art, body and nature work. It don’t demands specific experience in dance or bodywork, but demands of physical and  psychological engagement and ability of working concentrated and personal as well as
independent individual as in a group.

Please feel free to find guest books, pictures and earlier students sketch and dairy
See notes at Board

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