On saturday, 09.03.2018, Robozee/Flying Steps and me were invited to the Schrittmacher Festival Generation_2 to teach a workshop about the "cypher". The cypher is the space were the urban dance practices take place: a circular form, created by the practicioners, and a dancer in the middle, showing her or his skills. The roles are interchangable, every participant can jump in the middle of the circle and perform, so there is no division of the "performer" and the "audience"! Still, there are certain rules to follow if you want to jump inside this circular space called the "cypher".
The workshop focused on the "cypher-rules" and on the competences one must gain to be able to present confident in the cypher, such as improvisation skills, musicality, call & response, communication and an awaresness of the 360° circular space to dance in.
To create a real cypher-experience, we had DJ CeesStone from Holland to provide us with some fresh music!
We had a great group of dancers and dance pedagogues joining Robozee and me on this cypher-journey, and they did great! A big thank you to Yvonne Eibig of ARTbewegt e.V. for the invitation!
