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 reorganise in real time, cultivating resilience within turbulence. In this state, navigation becomes an embodied intelligence grounded in trust, presence, and continuous adjustment.
Tijen Lawton is a Turkish / English international dance artist and physical theatre performer based in Belgium. With over 33 years of professional practice, her work unfolds across performing, choreographing, transmitting, mentoring, researching, and co-creating within diverse artistic and academic contexts, engaging in creative environments where sustained inquiry, embodied experience, and critical challenge are central to the artistic process. Her practice is rooted in the performer’s capacity to embody, integrate, and transform lived experience as an essential dramaturgical force.
Time : 10 : 00 AM – 11 : 45 PM
Rates €10 per day / €45 per week
The Training Programmes are specifically designed for professional dancers.
You can now book and pay for Training Programmes online.
All bookings are final : reserved and paid places cannot be exchanged, refunded or canceled.
We recommend arriving at least 15 minutes before the start of the class or workshop.
We kindly draw your attention to the importance of punctuality. In the event of late arrival, access to the class cannot be guaranteed and no refund will be issued.
For more information or if you have any questions, please contact : ludovica@charleroi-danse.be or martin.dewez@charleroi-danse.be