MEZZANINE

Travelling inside

Meg Stuart

workshop fee: 120€

21 to 25 September 2015, 10h - 14h

In this workshop, improvisation will be used as a strategy to explore body memory and physical and emotional states. We will investigate the borders between knowing and not knowing, abstraction and intention, image and action. Extending our understanding of movement vocabulary and possibilities, we will travel through energetic worlds, memory spaces and emotional landscapes. We will explore charged single actions to create collective kinetic sculptures. Moving fictions combined with physical work will be shaped into scenarios in and out of the studio that transform and shift as we interact with others. In the various improvised scores, we will search for moments of intimacy, transgression and risk.

Dreamstates

Anna Nowicka

workshop fee: 90€

14 to18 September 2015, 16h - 20h

The work will focus on the practice of dreaming aware, and on becoming awake to the ongoing dreaming process that is accompanying our conscious existence, allowing this continuous flow of images to in-form the body, influence its’ presence and become the source of actions. We will work on participants’ night dreams, opening a dialogue with them and using their structure as a kaleidoscopic map for creativity. Employing the procedure of dream opening and the tool of shifting perspectives, we will discover ways of unfolding the body, expanding it into a multiple, ever flowing entity that playfully shifts between real and imagined, between being and doing, distance and proximity, aware of the continuous flow of impulses, able to choose which one to follow and embody. The aim of the workshop is to combine intuitive ways of creating with conscious choreographic decisions, in order to empower performers to connect with their dreams as legible sources of knowledge and foundations for creativity.

A given space of time

Mark Tompkins

workshop fee: 90€

14 to 18 September 2015, 10h - 14h

When improvising, each performer is working simultaneously on many different levels of perception: listening, watching, sensing, acting, reacting to one's self and one's partners. The art of Real time composition resides in each performer’s ability to remain open to the wealth of internal and external impulses, and to receive, process and propose material in an uninterrupted flow of feedback. How to avoid overload, how to stay actively attentive, how to do nothing and still act? These questions are addressed through a series of improvisational games and scores that explore and develop the sensations and perceptions – touch, vision, hearing, weight. To sharpen our inner and outer concentration, we explore the notions of shift, letting go, simultaneous time, active/passive, center/support and the roles of performer, witness and spectator.

Dynamics of weight, energy and empathy

Benoît Lachambre

workshop fee: 80€

1 to 4 September 2015, 17h - 20h

In the workshop we will be addressing multiple body layers through releasing. We will sense how sensations of transparency enhance the experience of pleasure induced by the awareness of free circulation of energy through the body and it’s constant relation with the outside. In this we will be using images and alignment work to amplify the senses and offer one self more strength and malleability in its ever-transforming world constructs.

What is the play of energy through the fabric of space and how is this a necessary connective element to all communicative activity? We will attempt to answer this question through constant mobility approaches, offering one self a free view at transformative realms. 

This workshop is for dancers/movers/body thinkers of multiple skills and interests, professionals and non-professionals, individuals who are interested by the exploration of micro movement as an open source to multiple world perceptions. This does necessitate an intense ongoing concentration process while letting go of expectations to step into the present dynamics of constant self-redefinition.

Implosive Partnering

Jorge Gonçalves

January to July 2011
Thursdays 20h - 22h
Tanzfabrik Berlin

Exploring the potential of being in relation to partners through touch, states of affection, corporal and movement practices, distance in space and time.

Through self-observation and working in our personal biography experience of movement, we will compose habits and ways of perceiving the limits of touch and how we touch. In which states or systems we develop an understanding about our notions of engaging with each other. Through somatic approaches to technical engagements of partnering, passing by the history of contemporary dance, we will focus on the dialogue between each ones practice and presence.

http://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/

Open Season Lab

Ana Rocha & Jorge Gonçalves

OPEN SEASON LAB

Ana Rocha & Jorge Gonçalves

22 April, 11h - 16h 
23 April, 11h - 17h
Tanz Hoch Zwei | Tanzfabrik Berlin

During these two days, we will mediate personal practices that approach movement through different strategies to composition as performativity states of affection, imagery and text. How to move in distance towards the other and me? How we can use this space in between to compose ourselves in our experiential movement? Working in the mechanisms of representation, we will extend the projections and tensions of the body in motion, by bringing up to surface the source of distance in an ironic or serious attitude, or other thing else.