The process we are now entering poses challenges- how does the intimate and very personal 'me studies' transform into a choreographic work that stands 'alone' so to speak. Today's
workshop draws its inspiration from a statement that Preston-Dunlop
makes in Looking at Dances (1988) with reference to 'kinetic content': to work like a craftsman to refine; being able to gain some distance from the material and see what it 'requires' in order to make choices that clarifies what will be offered to the audience. We revisit choreographic devices as a tool box that allows us to act upon the material. We go back to guided workshops: each dancer chooses three devices and either develops material from the existing or allows the device to generate new.... finding subtleties...
REPETITION
Helena (journeys): interesting how she puts her body in unnatural movements and positions which was inspired by the artist Heidi Latsky (by Nadja)
We decided to use that term to define today's work. Following Foucault's idea of the 'archaeology' of knowledge'- the strata of knowledge in the vertical axis of the historical process- we allow the three layers we have worked so far - the 'original', the trace, the reflection of seeing another move through a task base on 'our' material, to be the terrain of today's investigation...
The course introduces dancers to current approaches to
choreography paying particular attention to two equally important
processes: the creation of movement
material as well as the experience of moving.
The course focuses on solo and duet forms in order to consider the
interrelated processes of making, performing and reception. We explore a variety of stimuli and sources for choreography, but the emphasis is on the dancer/choreographer’s process as embodied
subjects who are paradoxically also the tool and the material through which the
dance forms is manifested and experienced. Dancers are encouraged to find an
emerging ‘voice’ as creative dance artist through discovery and
exploration. They are exposed to various
means to make and shape the experience of moving into shareable form. Emphasis
is given to developing an understanding of the relationship between the
evolution of a processes and the resulting form.
Over the course of the coming weeks we will share with you ‘thoughts
on the go’; reflections coming to you directly from the studio at the time of
our process. This will be complemented by
the participants’ individual pages, which will offer you thoughts, archival
material, and documentation of their individual process.
This semester, we are happy to be involved in a collaboration
with Kenyon College (Ohio) supported by the Global Course Connections. Students in both institutions will be working
‘virtually’ in a choreographic project exploring Body-Place-Identity as a means to investigate the manner in which
technology supports and expands on this. By pursuing the topic this way we aim
to achieve a double-pronged objective - the exploration of technology as a tool
for creative pedagogy, as well as technology as a very specific site in the
body-space nexus central to choreographic investigation.
The final results of the virtual duets will be presented as
a ‘live stream’ on December 17th 9.30 AM in USA/ 3.30 PM in GR . JOIN US!
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