Our Movement Labs are a codified methodology devised by the company through continuous practice over the past 5 years.  

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We invite dancers into a shared space of experimentation, of tightly instructed improvisation textures designed to expand dancers access to different movement qualities, and where form is continuously undone. Built from choreographic textures developed over the past five years, the work proposes a re-orientation of attention: from outcome to process, from habit to possibility.

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Designed to expand dancers’ access to a diverse range of movement qualities, the work challenges habitual pathways and cultivates clarity, adaptability, and nuance. It is not about the what, but the how. 

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We begin each session with a rigorous, voice-led warm-up—somatic, energetic, and relational. We move from the inside out and the outside in, sensing through our own bodies, into each other’s, and finally into a shared, collective organism.

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From here, we dive into choreographic textures: detailed, repeatable movement materials that function as research tools. These textures demand precision while opening up space for personal interpretation, cultivating the ability to shift modes with awareness and dexterity. These movement materials act as provocations, pushing the body toward sites of disruption, refinement, and expanded agency. 

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Learning is collective. Through witnessing, copying, drifting, and flocking, participants are invited into a decentralised research field. Hierarchies between facilitator and dancer are intentionally unsettled. We practice giving and taking agency, listening for where form emerges and where it dissolves.

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This is a space for rigor, for play, and for the emergence of new movement languages.

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If you are interested in hosting a Movement Lab, please get in touch at excessive.human.collective@gmail.com