Maxime Kroot is a dancer working in the field of contemporary dance and participatory arts. Her artistic practice revolves around a central question: what is our relationship to our own body, to the bodies around us, and to the environments we move through?
Currently based in Copenhagen, Maxime teaches Contact Improvisation (CI) at Rört, Akademiet, and CI-CPH. Alongside teaching, she is performing her most recent choreographic work, ‘FOAM’ (2024). Her choreography is rooted in participatory approaches, always shaped by a curiosity about how audiences and performers can co-create meaning through shared presence.
Maxime believes in the potential of dance to foster connection (in a world that often feels fragmented and disconnected) through touch, movement, stillness, and awareness.

She holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Dance and Arts Participation from ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL) and the Danish National School of Performing Arts (DK). Her experience with CI, is formed by teachers as Dorte Bjerre Jensen, Itay Yatuv, Robin Berkelmans and Tom Goldhand. Next to that, she is inspired by the movement rituals and creative scores of Anna Halprin.

Playing with nature, composition and relational movement. 

In this workshop, we will explore the compositions we find in nature and how they can inspire and shape our movement together.
When we dance Contact Improvisation, we take inspiration from the nature around us. The spiralling movement of plants, the foundational roots of the trees, the shifting winds and changing landscapes. Nature never stands still; it arranges itself again and again in response to what happens. This unpredictability is part of its beauty, and it’s what we’ll tune into through movement.
I am curious about the relational aspect of playing with compositions. Where do I place myself in the space? How do I relate to what is already there? And how does my presence influence that composition? What if I stand, smile, run, jump towards the other? 

In this workshop, I invite you to investigate together. We will begin with foundational tools: grounding, sensing our own bodies in motion, and establishing presence. From there, we will gradually open to unpredictability through working with scores, simple structures for improvisation. They are practices of observing, listening to the spatial relationships and timing of actions. We will research on how we can compose in real time by shifting, responding, creating. 
No prior experience with composing is needed, only a willingness to be curious. Like arranging food on a plate, there is no one way to do it. Each moment is a new composition.
Let’s investigate the poetry of nature’s arrangements, and how we dance with them!

N.B. Bring clothes suitable for the weather. My proposition is to work partially outside and in the studio.