“Who seeks knowledge learns something day by day, Who seeks Tao unlearns something day by day. Less and less, Until non-action is arrived. Then, nothing is left undone.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 48
 
Someone I danced with, once told me that I dance “lazy ass contact”. This does not mean that we rest and roll on the floor all the time, it can even be a really physical and even acrobatic dance, but it does mean that from the floor we start and to the floor we return. And that the floor and especially the search for the possibility to rest, to do less, and especially while moving - all these are certainly present in the dance.

When I imagine an intensive in the greenhouse, several topics that interest me in dancing and teaching come to mind and will surely be there:
- On the physical level: the fall, the ability to stay in a state of "constant falling" alone and with a partner. Weight sharing as a "solution" to a state of constant falling with and towards the  partner. 

- On the somatic level:listening as the starting point, the possibility to do less, doing without doing / non-action (the Chinese concept wu-wei), the possibility and the courage to explore (even in the small), not knowing and being surprised (and thanks to Feldenkrais).- On the level of awareness: practice of curious presence. in the moment and over time. Be with what is happening now. and give it value (!!)- On a personal/social level: the meeting with the other and through this with myself, the permission to be myself and express myself through dance, and the connection between what happens and is practiced in the studio to my daily behavior and life as an individual, and our behavior as a society, also outside the studio.

I would add that for me our role as intensive teachers in the greenhouse is to provide an anchor, and sometimes a lifeline, or a boat, and sometimes a wave of fun, all in order to survive the greenhouse well. and meet and enjoy. together. So I'm going to at least try to enable all of these. Ah... and we'll dance a lot.