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Education

The educational projects of Eastman open a dialogue with a broad audience ranging from amateurs to professional dancers. Through the educational projects, participants discover Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s vision and dance language.

His dance language embraces dialogue. Cherkaoui starts from an openness to other cultures, traditions and forms of movement. In the Eastman workshops several and equally valuable sources of a contemporary dance language are explored.

Eastman offers workshops, masterclasses and guest lectures in Belgium and abroad. The concept of the project and the background of the participants are decisive to what the emphasis of the workshop will be. The teachers are connected to Eastman as a dancer or are artists working closely with the company.

Workshops

Productions on tour are often the occasion for giving workshops abroad. The content of the workshop is adapted to the level of the participants. This may involve non-professionals, youngsters, students, but also professional dancers.

Besides the tour-related workshops Eastman also organises standalone educational projects on demand.

Structural collaborations in Antwerp

Eastman wants to anchor itself in its hometown Antwerp and therefore established a long-term cooperation with local dance schools in recent years.

- Artesis Hogeschool Antwerp

Since the academic year 2010-2011Eastman works with Artesis Hogeschool Antwerp and committed itself to a series of contemporary dance classes on technique and repertoire. Several Eastman dancers work on a regular basis with the students.

- Kunsthumaniora Antwerp

Eastman occasionally teaches classes at the Antwerp Academy of Art and is involved in its Summer Dance Workshops in August.

Contact Charlotte Bongaerts to create a customized educational project: charlotte.bongaerts@east-man.be.