curriculum for the academic year 2024 /2025

To give our students a better understanding of how our classes and structure are organised, we have created a yearly schedule. The purpose of this is to make it easier to plan and to ensure long term progress for the individual and the group. Our curriculum is planned as an academic year running from 30.9.2024 to 19.7.2025. The year is organised in cycles of 3 months. This is an overview of the cycles and topics we will be teaching throughout the year.

Whilst the main focus is to better understand one's mind and body through an integrated movement practice, we need to be smart about what we practice and what milestones we want to achieve in a given period of time. In a more general practice that is not limited to one area, it is important not to get too sidetracked or fall into the traps of specialisation, so we cycle through projects. Revisiting principles and concepts from different sides and perspectives as the material changes over time.

The Physical Preparation and Handstand classes are more continuous in their content as they are more tied to achieving a certain standard within well defined areas. The projects of the Movement classes change each cycle to get exposure to different areas that allow us to experience the underlying principles in different scenarios and settings. As we are multifaceted beings, it is of great benefit to not only base ourselves in one sport or field. It offers great opportunities to feel confident in many scenarios ranging from climbing to balancing, acrobatics, fighting, dancing and all the archetypal movement patterns that are deeply ingrained in us.

Following theory and material will be thought in the academic year 2024/205

-          The integrated movement practice: What it means to have an integrated movement practice and how to build it for yourself.

-          Programming and planning your training: How to decide what to practice. How to plan my own training and create my own training programmes.

-          The phasic body: How can we organise our training if we look through the lens of biotensegrity and incorporate it's principles into a more modern approach to physical preparation and training?

o   What is biotensegrity

o   Concepts of biotensegrity for physical education

o   Application of the concepts

On top of the above each individual cycle will have a main focus on the following projects and theory:

Cycle I

Theory and practicalities of Synergetics: How do we learn new skills and patterns, how can I decode movement and how can I apply this for a more skill based practice like acrobatics.

Acrobatics: Learn skills and elements of the world of soft acrobatics and how to use it in free association.

Cycle II

The phasic body: Elastic qualities. Where are they present and how to explore them through a skill based practice like lightness skills.

Lightness skills: Learn how to use the elastic qualities in your body to jump more efficiently and explosive and how to land more light and controlled.

Casts and kips: Explore two fundamental elastic synergies present in fields of acrobatics or athletics.

Cycle III

Environmental movement practices: Explore the urban environment and learn how to use it in your practice.

Rail balance and Railacro: In Railacro and Railbalance you learn how to use bars for your practice. Balance in application.

Ground locomotion: Transition to connect and disconnect from the ground with Floorwork's concepts. Introduction to short body acrobatic elements to include in the movement vocabulary for self expression in Improvisation.

Summer mode:

Apply it all and have fun :) The classes will be mostly application based and will provide a playground to consolidate what you have learnt and explore your extended possibilities.