For whom
This course welcomes participants from all backgrounds and profiles. The course is guided in English, and Dutch, and possibly a bit of French. 

Content
Emilie Gallier, dancer researcher and gardener, works within the multidisciplinary collaboration Gleaners and the Worms with Nina Boas and Nienke Terpsma, studying inclined bodies and earthworms. Together they develop practices coming closer with earthworms and observing regenerative postures. This course builds on these experiences and is guided by Emilie, with occasional guests Nina and Nienke.  

For 6 weeks, experience practices of soil connections through dance scores and movement improvisation techniques in the company of crafted textile objects and artistic publications. 

The practice Eyes Closed I See invites for the gaze to touch, in a collective reading over a landscape of colourful pages. A4 pages are horizontally assembled, covering the soil, and inviting for connections with its livings. Eyes become feet, bodies bend over, and participants share entangled dreams.

Covering with Earthworms is a group of movement practices that borrow from earthworms to nibble matter, to shape castings, to cover as a fertile gesture, again and again, to revisit, redigest, and make soils.

Holding and being Held, is a dance with bodies wearing very long aprons. ‘Are humans worms with aprons?’ Through movement we become bodies of roots and waterfall, adopting regenerative postures, where reciprocity is physically lived. 

We will dance, we will dream, we will listen in and play with polyvocal conversations, we will collectively write movement scores and songs. Our practices will rigorously engage with cycles, revisit, iteration, moving with the perspectives of human and other animals. 

Teachers
Emilie Gallier is dance artist, researcher, and gardener based in Leiden (Netherlands) and Les Minières (France). Her multimodal practice shapes her writing and performance making with soils, humans, and other animals. With her brother, living-soils gardener, Emilie co-founded Les Minières where gardening and art making gather. At the Amsterdam University of the Arts, and with Nienke Terpsma and Nina Boas she studies inclined bodies and earthworms. They develop practices coming closer with earthworms and observing regenerative postures under the name Gleaners and the Worms.

Nina Boas (she/her) is a visual artist and theater maker based in Amsterdam. She graduated from AKI ArtEZ in Enschede and completed her master's degree at DAStheater. Her work combines rituals, visual performance art, and theater with a focus on healing, which is expressed in various ways. Boas' practice includes drawings, performances, installations, and experiential journeys. Inspired by healing and self-development practices, Boas develops rituals and shares formats in collaborative search processes.

Nienke Terpsma (she/her) is a visual artist and book designer living in Rotterdam. She has worked closely with artists, authors and publishers on book and other projects in various roles and constellations. Together with Rob Hamelijnck she initiated the travelling artist-(maga)zine for non-academic research Fucking Good Art. Starting out (in 2004) as a zine for art critique by artists, FGA has engaged in field research into the humus and life around the artwork. FGA appears irregularly, mostly on paper—but also as radio, online, or spatial installations—from local contexts and in dialogue with other makers and thinkers.
 

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