Contemporary
Profitraining with Katrina Bastian
ROBOFLOW
ROBOFLOW is inspired by AI-management systems, mimicking their infrastructure to deconstruct movement while embracing choreographic geekiness and somatic intelligence. The class begins with proprioceptive awareness and fascial listening, systematically fragmenting established movement patterns to reveal their fundamental kinesthetic core. Through deliberate destabilization of familiar sequences, dancers experience the productive tension between precision and authentic response. Complex phrase work emerges through spiraling progressions, rapid gestural phrases, suspended extensions, and dynamic floor-to-standing transitions—each element exploring its full iterative potential. The class progresses through structured improvisation, sometimes incorporating partnering explorations where weight-sharing and counterbalancing become tools for collective inquiry. These investigations build into movement vocabularies that crescendo with technical intensity and expressive freedom. ROBOFLOW creates space for dancers to discover unexpected pathways while honoring each body's unique intelligence—challenging, sweaty, and pretty addictive.
ROBOFLOW is inspired by AI-management systems, mimicking their infrastructure to deconstruct movement while embracing choreographic geekiness and somatic intelligence. The class begins with proprioceptive awareness and fascial listening, systematically fragmenting established movement patterns to reveal their fundamental kinesthetic core. Through deliberate destabilization of familiar sequences, dancers experience the productive tension between precision and authentic response. Complex phrase work emerges through spiraling progressions, rapid gestural phrases, suspended extensions, and dynamic floor-to-standing transitions—each element exploring its full iterative potential. The class progresses through structured improvisation, sometimes incorporating partnering explorations where weight-sharing and counterbalancing become tools for collective inquiry. These investigations build into movement vocabularies that crescendo with technical intensity and expressive freedom. ROBOFLOW creates space for dancers to discover unexpected pathways while honoring each body's unique intelligence—challenging, sweaty, and pretty addictive.
Katrina Bastian
Katrina Elizabeth Bastian (she/they) is a choreographer and dancer engaged with endurance dance praxis that reflects and problematizes contemporary themes of consumerism, productivity, and binary conditioning. Leveraging her US-American upbringing through a deliberately hyperbolic aesthetic, she critically examines hyper-capitalist tendencies in the digital age. Katrina's innovative ROBOFLOW training technique, developed for her choreographic works, uses the body to understand and unpack AI's impact on modern life by deconstructing established movement patterns to create tension between technical precision and authentic response. With degrees from Reed College (BA Dance/Literature) and HZT-Berlin (MA Choreography), her work spans repertory companies, durational performance, dance-theatre, and professional voice acting. Her award-winning pieces include "Soliloquy in Sweat" and "CARDIAC; the heart is a muscle," supported by the Berliner Senat. Katrinafinds greatest joy in collaborative settings, devising embodied praxis that offers alternatives to neoliberal systems of value—positioning the body in a state of being as the ultimate form of resistance.