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ROCK & ROLL AIRIAL SPORT
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ROCK & ROLL AIRIAL SPORT!

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#DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY:

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I am looking for a woman who likes to learn together with me Rock & Roll Airial Sport. I call it a sport because I do not like to do the dance part. Please bring a mat for comfort, and cut & file your nails. We start with a warming up of partner-fitness. My notebooks are full of self desighned drawings of exercises. I show one drawing, and then we try to put it into practice. Also there is a possibility to look at Youtube with the help of your mobilephone. Then we concentrate on Rock 'n Roll Airial Sport exercises. We end training with stretching exercises.

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#WHERE?:

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In Vondelpark in Amsterdam. Go to Emmalaan (not Emmastraat!).Then enter this park. You are now on a paved road for bycycles & pedestrians. On your right hand side is my poster attached to a tree. In front of you, behind some bushes, is a gigantic grass field. Walk to the other side, then turn right and keep walking. Then look for a chestnut tree. Underneath is a big sign fixed to the trunk, with same poster on it. here it is! When I am not present right there, I am sitting on a bench nearby reading a book. You will recognise me from photos on this webside. You will find me!

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WHEN:

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There is no fixed time. It depends on when you have time. If you are interested, then please phone me. Most chance that I will pickup the phone is 8-9PM. TEL: 06-23.28.69.98. Then we make an appointment.

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#INFORMATION ABOUT COEN CONSCIOUS ENERGY:

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I have received one series of classes acrobatics for beginners from Det & Cahit from Stichting Stapel here in Amsterdam in 2014. This means that I am a beginner. But my experiences from other similar activities in my life, have a positive influence on my abilities. Now I give a description: I am a teacher contact improvisation dance, based on 7 years receiving classes in a worldwide network that is setup by Steve Paxton & Nancy Stark Smith from Usa, starting in 1972. Also I have danced on streets of Amsterdam for 15 years, organized in a professional way! Also together with friend Jasmijn Schrofer I have done a lot of partner exercises, for instance: Rock 'n Roll Airial Sport. For more information look at my CV at the bottom of this webpage.

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TELEPHONE CALLS RECEIVING SYSTEM:

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I do not have a smartphone. I have a simple mobile-phone. I always keep it at home, so I never take it with me. Therefore it is only posible to phone me when I am at home. Most chance that you can reach me is in the evening between 6 & 9PM. Then I am nearly always home. If after all I am not at home, then try again next evening. When it rings, I first put my headphones on, that takes time. I do that to protect against radiation, because that causes cancer. So can you please have pasience? If you disconnect already after 10 seconds, than you will never be able to get in contact with me! MY NUMBER IS: 06-23.28.69.98.

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REVIEW OF FRIEND THOMAS RENS LEASK FROM SOUTH AFRICA SUMMER 2023:

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"It was closest I 've come to a natural high. It was like being a child again- laughing, tumbling over, and laughing some more, beautiful".

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#REPORT OF MY EXPERIENCES WITH TRYING TO GIVING ROCK N ROLL AIRIAL SPORT CLASSES:

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I started it in the spring of 2022 in the Vondelpark here in Amsterdam. I cycle there every Sunday, hang advertising signs on trees, clean the lawn, mark a territory, and then wait for participants. While waiting I read a book. I have done this a total of 56 times!!! Despite all my efforts, of all those times, only 3 times participants have come! I also go around town passing by all the dance studios etc, with leaflets a lot of times every year. And there have been ads from me in Amsterdam MUG magazine.

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#MY EXPERIENCES WITH RECEIVED ACROBATIC CLASSES & BODY MOVEMENT & DANCE COURSES & ABOUT MY HEALTH FOOD LIFESTYLE, ETC.

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As I wrote already above, in 2014 I took a beginners course in acrobatics from Det & Cahid here in Amsterdam at Stichting Stapel. #I do morning exercises every day all my life. #From about 2019 I started doing regular weight training at a fitness center nearby. # I danced on the street for 15 years, mainly here in Amsterdam. And receive 7 years non-stop lessons contact improvisation dance / CID. I always wrote reports. With the help of that, I can teach in this kind of dance. #From 1995 to 2010 I organized tree climbing with ropes & safety belts. 4000 children participated!!! They were very enthusiastic and survived it all! That is proof that I am very careful. That is why I expect that no accidents will happen while doing rock & roll airial sport with you! And climbing in each other is even more fun than climbing trees! # I follow a very healthy diet of half raw food & half cooked food. I also eat a lot of wild edible plants, especially nettle soup.

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#HOW IT STARTED:

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In 2020 I met filmdirector Jasmijn Schrofer. I loved her só much that I invented all kinds of activities to entice her to joyn in! One of them was partner exercising in my house. On the computer we watched all kinds of classes on You Tube & imitated the movements. And I made drawings in notebooks. And we looked for examples in a book about acrobatics. We came together every wednessday afternoon, and had a lot of fun!!! For me this was one of the most wonderful experiences of my life!!! This was going on for about a year. See photo collage on top of this webpage. But for me it was always more important then for her. She is more conscentrated on her boyfriend in Africa. After one year she did not come so often any more. But I wanted to keep doing it every week. I had to beg her for month before she had time again, and was in the mood again, to train with me. One day I was fed up with waiting! Then I developed a plan to organize regular public trainings in Vondelpark. Till now only a few times people participated. I tought that this was because people have a hard time understanding what I mean with: "partner exercises". That is why I decided to concentrate on acrobatics, because everybody knows what that is. And then, ones that is running well, to integrate the other kinds of partner exercises. But after all still almost nobody came. In winter 24/25 I changed my plan: I made two posters specially about rock& roll airial sport. So from now on I want to concentrate on that, and I am not interested anymore in acrobatics. Because I love rock & roll airial sport, and do not like acrobatics anymore.

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#CURRICULUM VITAE DANCE COEN CONSCIOUS ENERGY:

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1980-2012: After three years in Art schools in Maastricht & The Hague, I move to Amsterdam, discover dance and feel this is my greatest talent. I receive regularly all kinds of different dance classes and find that I like the most: Contact Improvisation Dance. I want to become a professional dancer. I try to get in two different schools, but they judge me too old. Since then I try to accomplish this goal through self-study. I develop my own way of dancing during solo improvisation performances on the street and in small theaters. I always start with centering myself, by experiencing breath. Breathing of every living being is not just pumping of oxygen into the body, but is in reality an ecstatic dance of conscious energy. So if I am doing nothing, there is already an aware dance going on inside my heart. Feeling this wave of energy, which doesn't have any form, I am open to let an almost unlimited variety of movements to evolve. I don't want to create a dance with the mind, but I try to let this really simple primordial vibration spiral out and manifest in this physical world. Besides dancing on the streets, I keep going to dance classes , do voluntary work in a local Contact Improvisation Dance Organization, sew dance clothes, paint them, build my own dance studio, rent different other studio's, make drawings from dancing people, design a tryout of a simple dance-magazine, and do the production of dance-videos. At the same time I work on improving my physical condition with fasting, following a 50% organic vegan living raw diet, visiting heath food resorts, growing vegetables in my own garden, making contact with nature, and traveling around the world. I have learned about contact improvisation dance from: Natanja den Boeft, Christine Svane, Esther Hinzmann, Marketa Janochova, Monika Forster, Patrick Johnson, Sebas van Wetten & Vega Luukonen.

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#CONTINUATION CURRICULUM VITAE DANCE COEN CONSCIOUS ENERGY:

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2012-2014: MY OWN BUSINESS. ACTIVITY: DANCE. NAME: "OUROBOROSCOSMOS". Chamber of Commerce Amsterdam NO: 55.66.93.01. Between 1980 and 2014 I invest 34,000 euros in dance. My income from 2012 to 2013 is 1000 euros. I design an aluminum bicycle trailer that was welded together by a blacksmith. I put together professional equipment, with all kinds of expensive sound installations, battery, transformer, rubber carpet on the street, cones for demarcation, self designed dance clothes, sew it, paint it, collect dance music, & arrange a permit. I do most of it myself! Three friends are helping: Hans Schoonekamp with filming, Carolien with filming and editing, and Kees Straks with music. I put an advertisement on a website of the Theater Instituut Nederland and another website to find other dancers. Some people email, but they never show up. Bookkeeper Jan Buist helps me with filling in tax forms. During that period I made a plea in the Municipal Council in which I asked that more attention should be paid to dance on the street. In 2014 I go on a long voyage to India that will take 6 month. In march 2015 I am back in Amsterdam. I do other things for survival. In 2018 friend Sena Makafumawu, born in Togo in West Africa, and recently doing voluntary work in a organisation of artists called Rainbow Soul Club, designs an art drawing with many beautiful colors. I bay if from him and use it to paint on my new dance catsuite later, I will now explain what happended later. In 2020 RSC organises an exibition in a gallery. We spent one week preparing. One of the activities is to saw and decorate my new dance suite. At the end of this week public comes, and I give a dance performance. A lady from Engeland makes a video. It is on my You Tube Channel: "COSMOS STARGATE VOYAGERS".

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MORE LIFE STORIES!: 15 YEARS TREE CLIMBING WITH CHILDREN:

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#1995-2010. With ropes and safety belts. With an eight-year-old boy (cousin of movie star Rutger Houer) we investigate which trees in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam are suitable for climbing. Gradually more parents come to bring their children. In 1998 I put an advertisement in "Kidsgids" then it goes fast! By that time I organize children's birthday parties and courses. This means that within one day I create an amusement park in the trees and break it down again! Seven attractions: 1: simply secured climbing with the same technique as that of arborists. 2: Climbing up to bottom branch via a rope ladder. 3: cable car. 4: rope bridge. 5: Like Tarzan from one tree to the next, 6: Giant tree swing, 7: playing net susspended between branches. Every spring a course with even more activities on ground: I: Children's movement games, II: Building Pygmy hut, III: tropical fruits picnic, IV: taste wild edible plants, V: climbing small trees without ropes. And I drive out to 24 permanent places in parks and forests around Amsterdam, Gooi and Haarlem. Some customers are very rich, with gigantic houses in Aerdenhout & Gooi. In 2002 Keuringsdienst van Waren demands that I have my ropes inspected for 500 euros. I do not have that. That is why I have to gradually phase out this activity. Ropes that I have left, I use to make fixed children's playground equipment, in the form of tree houses. I install them in three places: 1: In Community garden complex "Blijkmeer" on island called: "Zeeburg". 2: Nature Education Center in Oeverlanden near Amsterdamse Bos, 3: In a children's playground in Vliegenbos in Noord. I do maintenance once a year. In 2010 the natural ropes are so rotten that I have to remove them. 4000 children participated!!! It was a fantastic experience!!! If I ever buy a piece of land in a tropical virgin forest, I will change it into a tree climbing forest.

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#THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN VONDELPARK TO TRAIN!:

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It is relatively quiet at the back of the Vondelpark. It is in the middle between Overtoom & Willemsparkweg, so it is far away from car noises. The lawn is huge! It is under a very beautiful chestnut tree. It is near a pond with rocks in the middle and a fountain on top, which gives a quiet background sound. The grass is in excellent condition, not at all worn & soiled as in so many other places in this park. I have organized tree climbing with children in the Vondelpark for 20 years, so I know Vondelpark like the back of my hand, therefore take it from me that this is really the most beautiful place!

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#BUT PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MEADOW IS ALSO USED AS AN OUTLET FOR DOGS:

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The place where we train, is officially called: Grote Speelweide. Translation is: Big Playing Meadow. But it is popularly called "dog meadow". It is called that, because many people walk their dogs there. It's not officially a dog outlet, so the owners can't claim the terrain. Most dogs are playing with each other in the middle of the GIGANTIC field. We are in a corner where there are very few dogs running around. And there is a path across this field making our area a bit separated. I like those dogs! Most are very sweet and loving. They just like to play, and will beg you all the time to throw there ball so that they can run after it. And some dogs look beautiful! And there are many different kinds passing by all the time! When dogs shit on this field, most of the times, their owners clean it up. But sometimes nobody cleans it up. This is the downside of this field. But my experience is that most shit is from geese. It is digested grass. It is not so bad as dogshit. If you love nature, you have to take it as it is! There are always disadvantages with everything! This is only a problem for spoiled germophobia city slikkers. If you live a heathy lifestyle & love nature & survival, then this is not a broblem!

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#I ALWAYS CLEAN UP OUR TERRITORY BEFORE TRAINING STARTS:

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I always make sure I come some time before official start of classes. I make a territory of rope with a diameter of 20 meters. I bring a bucket & small garden shovel & rubber gloves. I fill the bucket with soil, and place it right in the middle of the marked out area where we will train. Then I take a plastic bag and walk in a spiraling way around that bucket, looking for animal poop. I do it very thoroughly and systematically! When I find one, I put it in this plastic bag, and cover the spot with soil. What is left of the earth I throw into a hole, because the dogs also dig holes. So I also make sure that the terrain remains flat. Then I wash the gloves in the pond, and later at home with soap.

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#PROBLEM OF PEEING DOGS & SOLUTION:

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When I put my backpack on the grass, dogs will sometimes pee against it. That's why I hang it in this chessnut tree. When participants come, I will put your belongings in a big duffel bag & hang it also in this tree.

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#THE BENEFIT OF A DISADVANTAGE:

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Other groups never train there, because, in their wild imagination, they think there is a carpet of dog poop!!! And elsewhere in the VP, when it's sweltering hot, it's full of sunbathers and barbequers. Not here, precisely thanks to the dogs!

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#WHY NOT JUST TRAIN AT ANOTHER PLACE IN THE VONDELPARK?:

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Dogs are allowed everywhere. So there is dog poop all over the park! Only not in the children's pool, because there is a fence around it. But the disadvantage of that place is that during a heat wave it fills up very early with families with children. There is space in the dog meadow every sunday, even during a heat wave. I need a place that is available every sunday!

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#FUTURE PLANS:

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When there will be at least 10 very determinded participants, we will rent the whole winter Brazilian theater Munganga that is located behind Vondelpark. # When the hard core of enthousiastic students have learned the basics of acrobatics, I will also integrate movements out of other diciplines, for instance & rock 'n roll airial dance & contact improvisation dance. When the participants become very good at that too, my plan is that we will endeavour to develop beautiful dance choreochraphies in performances to show for public. We will share profit. With this Dance Tribe we will do shows on big squars in big towns in Netherlands & other countries, and in small theaters, and on festivals & events & private parties. So we will make a dance choreography based on a fusion of different partner movement & partner dance styles. Later we could add acting, then it will evolve to become a musical. Next step could be a movie & documentary.

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