Benno Voorham at the Master of Arts in Theatre: A Journey into the Imaginative Body

From February 2nd to 6th, 2026, the Master of Arts in Theatre will host the intensive workshop “The Imaginative Body” led by Benno Voorham, an international performer, choreographer, and teacher from the Netherlands. This workshop, aimed at first-year students, Cimetta class, offers a unique opportunity to explore the creative potential of the human body through movement and improvisation.

The Body as a Tool for Imagination

Benno Voorham’s approach focuses on the imaginative potential of the body, developing a poetic, idiosyncratic, and kinaesthetic sensitivity that helps students navigate and make choices within improvisational scores. During the workshop, participants will embark on a truly danced journey into the realm of imagination, exploring the creative possibilities of movement and allowing emotions, sensations, and stories to emerge directly from the moving body.

Working both from idea to physicality and from movement to imagination, the workshop will help students develop a deep awareness of their own body and its narrative potential.

Improvisation and Contact

One of the workshop’s main tools will be Contact Improvisation, providing a shared ground for entering into a physical and kinaesthetic dialogue with others. From there, students will explore performative improvisation, experimenting with different improvisation scores to refine both compositional and spatial awareness.

Articulation and playful lightness will be key words: participants will dance for and with each other, maintaining awareness of their own direction while remaining open to physical contact, creating real-time choreographies that blend intention and spontaneity.

About Benno Voorham

Benno Voorham has lived in Stockholm since 1995 and works internationally as an independent performer and choreographer. Graduating in 1986 from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, he has collaborated on numerous projects, both choreographic and improvisational, including initiatives with children and young refugees across Europe and Scandinavia.

In addition to his performance career, Voorham is recognized as a teacher of Contact Improvisation and Compositional Improvisation, with a particular interest in the creative and narrative potential of the human body. In recent years, he has also integrated video into performance, expanding the dialogue between body, space, and imagination.

For more information: bennovoorham.com