Trial and Error – Improvisation as a Practice of Curiosity

How can we step out of habitual movement and enter a state of curious unknowing?
This workshop, led by Ildikó Tóth, opens a space for dancers and movers—both experienced and emerging—to explore improvisation as a field of inquiry, risk, and discovery.
Drawing on the Forsythe Improvisation Technologies and the choreographic research during the residency at Akropoditi, together we will investigate how restriction, delay, or fragmentation can open new pathways of movement and perception.
Participants will work with improvisation scores that challenge expectations and invite playfulness: interruptions in flow, shifts in spatial orientation, altered timing, or responses to minimal stimuli. Tasks may include isolating body parts, following impulse rather than form, or allowing stillness to become active.
Improvisation here becomes a strategy of unlearning. Rather than seeking control, we engage in a process that values uncertainty, attentiveness, and presence—the creative potential of not knowing what comes next.
The workshop emphasizes physical intelligence, perception, and curiosity. It invites professional dancers and experienced movers to deepen their improvisational tools and rediscover movement as a way of thinking through the body.

Ages: 16+

Level: Dancers as well as participants with prior movement experience

Ermira Goro – Ildikó Tóth

Ermira Goro is a choreographer, performer and movement director. From 2007 to 2018, she collaborated with the renowned DV8 Physical Theatre as a performer, teacher, and Research & Development / Choreography Assistant. In 2022, she was nominated for Outstanding Performer at The Bessies – The New York Dance and Performance Awards. Alongside creating and performing, Ermira has been invited by international organizations to develop choreographic works. Over the years, her work has been supported and presented at numerous festivals and venues in Greece and around the world, earning critical acclaim for its imaginative and distinctive approach. She is an Aerowaves Twenty25 Artist.

Ildikó Tóth is a choreographer, performer, and dance educator based in Leipzig, Germany. She studied at Codarts University in Rotterdam and pursued postgraduate studies in New York with a DAAD scholarship. She performed with artists such as Bill Young/Colleen Thomas, Susan Marshall, and Kota Yamazaki before joining The Forsythe Company (2012–2015). Her choreographic work centers on interdisciplinary collaboration and improvisation and has been presented at LOFFT – Das Theater Leipzig, Schaubühne Lindenfels, and other venues. She teaches Forsythe improvisation across Europe and in the US.