17/07/2026
Jetsummer Program
Morning Professional Training
We are happy to welcome back Tijen Lawton as part of our summer program!
She will lead "Navigating Wild Ocean" from the 10th to the 14th of August, from 10h to 13h.
Navigating Wild Ocean
10th to 14th of August
10h to 13h
Navigating wild ocean frames the body as a responsive vessel moving through unpredictability, intensity, and constant change. Rather than seeking control, the practice develops sensitivity to shifting forces, momentum, resistance, and instability, allowing movement to emerge through adaptation. Attention sharpens and widens, enabling rapid negotiation between risk and support, effort and release. The body learns to yield, reorient, and reorganize in real time, cultivating resilience within turbulence. In this state, navigation becomes an embodied intelligence grounded in trust, presence, and continuous adjustment.
Tijen Lawton
Tijen’s main body of works spans over a period of over 30 years as a professional dance artist, shifting between performing, teaching, mentoring, coaching, researching and co-creating
in diverse artistic and academic contexts. Artist and educator, she delves into the body as an archive, merging artistic practice and teaching. Through research and commitment to the unexplainable in movement, she cultivates heightened senses and ignites creative potential. Tijen studied at Arts Educational School London, The Place LCDS London, The Juilliard School New York. For 15 years, she was a constant presence in all of Jan Lauwers & Needcompany’s work performing, creating and touring worldwide. Also performing, touring & collaborating with Caterina & Carlotta Sagna, Mauro Paccagnella & Wooshing Machine, Pierre Droulers, Erika Zueneli, As Palavras / Cie Claudio Bernardo, Rebecca Lenaerts, Greet Vissers & Kunstz, Mokhallad Rasem & het Toneelhuis, Marco Torrice, Lisaboa Houbrechts, Andrew Graham, laGeste.
120 euros for the week or 30 euros per day.
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