Intensive Workshop

Intensive Workshop

Intensive contemporary dance workshops in Bologna with Art Factory International, open to professional dancers
working with international artists.

Structure of the workshops:

Workshops are scheduled over one weekend and include daily training, creative laboratories and moments of discussion around choreographic work.
Each intensive focuses on contemporary technique, floorwork, improvisation and composition, offering tools to refine both physical skills and artistic research.

These weekend intensives are aimed at:

Professional dancers and recent graduates looking for high-level additional training.
Advanced students and pre-professional dancers who wish to experience the Art Factory International environment without joining the full-year program.

CALENDAR

Season 2026/2027

Lizards in shoes Workshop
by Brandon Lagaert

WHEN
10–11 January 2026
Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM

WHERE
BACH ART CENTRE
Via Francesco Zanardi 230/2
Bologna, Italy

REGISTRATION
Please send an email to: artfactoryinternational@gmail.com

BOOK YOUR SPOT

Lizards in shoes is geared towards performers with a foundation in performance; dance, circus, physical theatre.

This workshop incorporates elements from breaking, contemporary dance and theatre, three diverse styles, resulting in a uniquely powerful physical methodology. Despite their apparent differences, these artistic disciplines share remarkable commonalities. Through extensive research and practice, Brandon Lagaert has developed innovative concepts that bridge these styles, allowing them to flow seamlessly into one another. Some of these concepts draw inspiration from the work of Peeping Tom, while others represent original developments unique to Kaiho Company.
This transformative workshop introduces participants to these specialized concepts, designed to ignite creative potential.
Participants will discover tools for developing their own movements, phrases, qualities, and characters, expanding their artistic horizons through this integrated approach.
We will glide, spin, flow, melt, freeze, tick, hoover, glitch, and float.
This workshop has a strong emphasis on floorwork, qualities and states.

Don’t bring shoes. Or lizards.

DISCOVER MORE

Lizards in shoes Workshop
by Brandon Lagaert

WHEN
17 – 18 January 2026
Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM

WHERE
BACH ART CENTRE
Via Francesco Zanardi 230/2
Bologna, Italy

REGISTRATION
Please send an email to: artfactoryinternational@gmail.com

BOOK YOUR SPOT

Forsythe’s improvisation technique is broken down into what he calls “modalities,” which are about 30 movement concepts, such as shearing, collapsing, folding, and matching.

Once you improvise ways of moving your body in the different modalities, they become “reminder tools,” giving you a whole new set of ideas to use to trigger movement variation or invention.

Though born out of the ballet vocabulary, Forsythe’s technique is not just for dancers and choreographers; it can be of value to any creative artist. It opens up avenues that allow you to expand your ideas of what you thought your body could do . It’s about rediscovery and rethinking your previous education/knowledge and taking it down a different path.