Sensorium Toolkit

A sensory toolbox for dancing

The toolkit is an instrument for dance teachers to stimulate pupils to dance and create movement through sensory experience. This physical box stimulates creativity and is full of tools to feel, hear, look and smell

The Sensorium Toolkit gives teachers guidance during lessons in which the connection between body and mind is paramount. Images, sounds, smells and textures form the starting point for physical discovery and for the natural process of concentration, information processing, creative association, imagination and ultimately layered movement.

The Sensorium Toolkit is inspired by the artistic vision of the professional choreography practice of Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten. The toolkit gives you, as a teacher, material with which you encourage students to discover the creative possibilities of their bodies. The toolkit does not prescribe movements or choreographies. It was Greco's curiosity for the moving body that drove him into the studio himself in 1995. With the toolkit we evoke that same curiosity in both pupils and teachers.

A teacher who works with the toolkit is particularly eager to expand his/her own creative vision, to go off the beaten track of kinetic movement lessons and to embark on adventures in learning to discover the relationship between body and mind.

The toolkit is suitable for various teaching situations and is intended for lessons for pupils aged 10 years and older. As a teacher, you decide whether you use the toolkit in one lesson, in a series of lessons, or as a recurring part of your regular lessons. The toolkit combines the creative with the rational and thus offers a multifaceted view of what dance education is: learning about yourself, your own body and the relationship with your environment through creativity and discovery, analysis and processing. 

Sensorium Toolkit classes 2024

In collaboration with C-Punt, ICK is again offering dance classes with the Sensorium Toolkit in primary schools this year. The module "Dance with all your senses" is a way for children to transform their imagination and intuition into movement by looking, feeling, smelling and hearing.

Our teachers taught at the Plesmanschool in Badhoevedorp in January and February, and in March and April they will teach at Vredeburg in Hoofddorp.

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