Workshop

Katie Duck has been teaching internationally since the mid 70’s alongside her professional career as a performer and choreographer. She integrates her current research making each workshop completely unique. Over the past 10 years her workshops have been titled “improvisation” in order to emphasize her views on theater as a live art form and reflective of how she executes her own professional performances. Her research is placed in practice with lectures containing her recent interest in brain studies.
Katie’s workshops and classes are aimed towards all dance, performance and music artists.
Her warm-up and exercises emphasize how the eyes and the ears work in coordination with movement, sound and exposure to gathered crowds altering our perception of time, space and emotions. Improvisation sessions revolve around the terms pause, flow, exit and presence as choices with discussions articulating play, memory, intuition and feelings. Her aim is to provide a situation where artists can practice together and grow in confidence toward public performances with an objective to clarify that improvisation is not the antitheses of choreography or composition but rather the way choreography and composition can be executed.

Katie Duck
Short bio

Born in California, Katie Duck is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She left the United States in 1976 to live in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and changed her name to Katie Duck (originally Appenzeller) while touring her first solo “duck play” in Europe in that year. She has used this title ever since.
Throughout her career Katie Duck has worked with music artists who share her passion for collaborating music, text and dance using improvisation as the means to combine art forms and execute live time compositions for performance.
Katie Duck is presently a tutor and placement coordinator for the School of New Dance Development choreography department, and improvisation teacher for the Modern Dance department (both at the Amsterdam School of the Arts). And she tours in Asia, the USA and Europe with workshops and Duck Projects. Katie continues to base her work in Amsterdam while maintaining a second base in San Diego, California, where she will collaborate with internet communication expert and dance artist Justin Morrison.