About

Toolboks is a tactile, physical resource and creative tool for movement improvisation and composition.

Designed to inform, inspire, and support creative processes, Toolboks acts as a catalyst for rich and complex movement ideas, supports and deepens movement research, gently challenges habits and patterns, and opens up new possibilities.

Wherever you are in your creative process, Toolboks can be a supportive companion – a resource to have available in the space that can enhance your movement practice and feed your curiosity. Toolboks is a dynamic framework for exploration and creation that can be adapted to the shifting needs and intentions of one’s practice – whether you’re working on independent movement research, developing choreographic or movement-based work, designing workshops, or facilitating sessions for a group. These are physical, functional, tactile tools that can be integrated into your creative process at any stage and in any space you’re working in. 

Each card is more than an exercise, it’s an invitation.

An invitation to notice, explore, shift perspective, play, question, investigate, test, get curious, create, transform, and discover. Holding clarity and spaciousness in balance, Toolboks offers pathways into movement by giving just enough structure for guidance and support, while leaving space for possibilities to unfold.

Edition 01 of Toolboks is designed for:

  • Dance artists

  • Movement-based practitioners

  • Choreographers

  • Movement Directors

  • Facilitators

  • Rehearsal directors

  • Dance educators and teaching artists

  • Dancers in training and higher education

  • Institutions, companies, and residency spaces working with movement

Toolboks is both a creative tool and an educational resource – a system that enables possibilities for freedom of expression, direction, and response.

How Toolboks can support your practice

Dance artists and Choreographers

  • A supported practice
    Feel resourced while improvising and creating, reduce uncertainty and the sense of working in isolation.

  • Protected focus
    Clear frames help to safeguard time and attention for research, exploration, and reflection.

  • Expanded possibilities
    Prompts and tools help shift habitual patterns and unlock new movement possibilities.

  • Clear direction
    Defined entry points, structures, steps, questions and reflection prompts give orientation without directing the outcome.

  • Process support
    Shared structures can support collaboration and decision-making and establish a positive working environment.

  • Clarity and structure
    Modular frameworks allow you to zoom in and out, organise material, reduce overwhelm, spark new ideas, and support decision-making throughout your creative process.

  • Fresh input and inspiration
    Tactile tools that support idea generation, offer new direction, pathways and possibilities, and initiate creation.

  • Deeper artistic rigor
    Reflective questions and considerations invite deeper thinking around process, creation, collaboration, composition and context.

Teachers, Educators and Facilitators

  • Structure and adaptation
    Modular frameworks offer clear session structures that can be used individually or combined, while leaving space to respond to the group in real time.

  • Greater facilitation confidence
    Strong content and session arcs, clear pacing, intentional focus areas and extensive developmental opportunities.

  • Specialisation and focus
    The categories of the cards and symbols allow for specialised focus on a particular aspect of movement, theme or area of development.

  • Richer material generation
    Clear pathways from improvisation and exploration into composition, set material and performance consideration.

  • Effective collaboration and working environment
    Shared principles and responsive tools support communication, co-creation and shared authorship.

  • Sustainable practice culture
    A way of working that nurtures curiosity, individuality, collectivity, autonomy, exploration, inclusion, reflection and community.

Schools, Institutions, Residency Spaces & Festivals

Toolboks can be:

  • A shared resource in studio libraries and common spaces.

  • A reference for improvisation, composition, and facilitation.

  • A comprehensive and rich resource for independent practice, teaching, and artistic research.

  • Made available to teachers and facilitators as support for planning, developing and delivering sessions.

You could:

  • Host Toolboks-based workshops, labs, and events.

  • Make Toolboks available as a resource for resident artists, students, or educators.

  • Use the cards to support programmes, labs, and professional development.

  • Use Toolboks as a common reference or shared knowledge system in improvisation and composition-based processes.

  • Integrate selected cards into curriculum plans, particularly around movement research, creative process, and reflection.

  • Invite resident artists to work with the cards and share back experiences with staff and peers – connecting artists across practices.

  • Integrate Toolboks into programmes that focus on improvisation, composition, co-creation, collaboration and creative processes.

  • Use Toolboks as a starting point to encourage and initiate collaboration, connection and conversation within your community.

Toolboks is a living library of movement tools.

It can help turn improvisation into a clear, creatively rich practice – supporting artists, educators, and communities to move, explore, create, teach, collaborate, and compose with support and confidence.