Laura van Hal
Laura teaches unregularly on a by-project basis. With her strong background in education she feels comfortable leading classes and fueling the creative spark of both professionals and amateurs of any age.
Teacher
Buitenkunst (2005-now)
Laura’s teaching expertise, along with her choreographic and directing skills can be enjoyed every summer during the Buitenkunst workshops and performances, The event showcases various activities in theater, dance, music, and visual arts during the sunniest days of the year.
Jeugddanstheater Plankenkoorts:
Dance events for elementary education (2008-2011)
Youth dance theater Plankenkoorts originates special dance projects for elementary schools. Working with the time available for the students they build an entire dance performance, including work on their own costumes. That Laura is able to express her love of dance and show how to create a performance from scratch to such a young group of “performers” is a joy! The school teachers then have a basis to expand into many different topic areas.
Circus Elleboog (2006-2008)
Laura began her circus career with circus Elleboog, performing in various youth orientated shows. More recently she has returned to teach classes and direct performances there regularly.
Circustheaterdagen Schiermonnikoog (2008)
2008 was the first year the circus theater days on Schiermonnikoog were held. The theme of the
festival was ‘The New Circus’, a new style of circus in which theater and dance are used to create acts and performances.
Laura taught a workshop on combining acrobatics with dance to create meaningful circus.
Het Kabinet Danst:
Open mind on the carpet (2006)
The theme of ´Het Kabinet´this year was ¨the carpet: a mobile stage´ The participants would decide on what kind of carpet they would like to dance and what this would mean for their choreography. In the rehearsals Laura coached the hip hop group ´Energy´ and other contributing contemporary dancers by structuring their ideas and helping them to create movement material based on their theme.
Short Works (2004)
Short Works is a choreography project of Jongerentheater 020. The participants research different dance styles until they find their own way of moving. They take part in a multitude of workshops and master classes, while also attending professional performances with an eye for their own techniques. Afterwards, they create their own choreography under the professional supervision of Maxi Hill.
As an additional coach, Laura helped Mieke de Hoop and Irosha Tieman structure ideas for their duet ‘Prepair’.
acrobatic dance artist