PAULINE DE GROOT, dancer, choreographer and teacher has moved in a circuit of new dance and movement- art around the world for more than three decades. Her early training and performance experience in the U.S.A. with Martha Graham, José Limón, Merce Cunningham, Erick Hawkins and André Bernard established her kinship with the 'Judson Church generation' and her rooting in the American avant-garde.
On her return to the Netherlands in '65, introducing new ideas about movement and aesthetics, she founded a school in her studio (‘68) that later formed the foundation (‘76) of the School for New Dance Development (SNDD) of the Amsterdam School of Higher Education in the Arts (AHK). As one of the main teachers at the SNDD for 20 years, Pauline de Groot was influential to several generations of dancers and -makers in the field today.
Pauline has integrated in her work principles of movement disciplines, such as T’ai Chi, Chi Kung, Todd Alignment, Alexander-, Release- Technique and Contact Improvisation. The performance of improvisation - the art of being here and now -, is essential in her work: ‘improvisation is a craft needing scrutiny and devotion...’ Her work moves from the dance of rolling and flying to the dance of stillness and awareness.
Of great influence to her life and work have been the teachings of the Buddha, first through Tibetan masters Trungpa Rinpoche and Sogyal Rinpoche and more recently through Zen master Thich Nat Hahn. In the wide field of movement, dance and meditation, the exchange and performances with colleagues, such as Australian choreographer Russell Dumas, Indonesian movement and meditation master Suprapto Suryodarmo, the study of Zhan Zhuang Chi Kung with Peter den Dekker and his master Lam Kam Chuen, the practice of Sacred Clowning with Didier Dhantois and various projects with students, dancers, actors, musicians, clowns and storytellers, continue to challenge and inform her work.
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