The Rietveld Academie has invited Krisztina de Châtel to be a Performance visiting lecturer for the academic year 2007-2008. Together with her assistant artistic director Massimo Molinari, she has created a workshop centred on the human body for second-year Visual Arts students.

Through a series of assignments, Rietveld students discover the possibilities of the human body in space, in time and in concentration. Every Thursday afternoon in February and March, the large dance studio is filled with students, objects and music. Students will work on various movement qualities, such as central versus peripheral and soft versus hard. How can one expose the physicality and vulnerability of the body?

The workshop will conclude with a final presentation in the main hall of the Rietveld Academie that is open to the general audience. The exact date is yet to be announced.