BetweenUs Partnering Workshops

We begin with a partner warm-up, where we actively engage with our partner’s body to create space and mobility. By exploring and understanding weight and structure, we learn how to connect body/body relation and discover the most functional ways to interact. This phase helps establish a foundation of trust among participants, blending playfulness with safety.

Next, we move into a more active training phase, designed to strengthen the body’s structure and prepare it for dynamic movements and lifts. The goal is to build a solid physical foundation, enabling participants to approach the subsequent steps with greater confidence and ease. We then incorporate playful games inspired by martial arts to heighten attention, adaptability and intuition. These exercises foster a functional, instinctive use of the body, enhancing reactivity and movement management skills.To further enhance creativity, we explore improvisational tasks that sharpen listening skills and encourage expressive freedom.

We dedicate time to learning technical partnering elements. These elements are broken down step by step and adapted to different levels of experience, allowing participants to develop effective strategies for collaborating with a variety of partners. Throughout the workshop, we encourage participants to switch partners, as working with diverse bodies becomes a powerful source of growth and enrichment.

Finally, we focus on learning a duet that integrates everything practiced during the workshop. Through the repetition of a structured sequence, we refine dynamic movements in space, enhancing spatial awareness, memory and fluidity.