Events

1&1+1 by Dai Jian

1&1+1 is a workshop of two consecutive sessions that will explore the relationship between Active & Passive + an Addon Factor. It’s an experiment based on relationships and choices. It explores the unknown and freedom in the foreseeable logical relations of limit. It focuses on the perception and role of any individual in a group. It develops into a group relationship.

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Find Yourself through Improvisation by Nam Jeongho

The aim of this class is to produce a language of observation and decision-making that will become the basis for communication in the open improvisational sets that conclude each work. And also to find and recognize different ways of seeing, listening and partnerships.

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IMPROVISATION…real-time-composition by Sebastian Prantl

The workshop will discuss and explore the evolutionary process from the general term ‘improvisation’ – as a rather vague, widespread definition in various fields: music, dance, theatre and will focus on the term ‘real-time-composition’ as a reference code in post-modernism. ‘IMPROVISATION… real-time-composition’ - as an extended duo function title is intentional!

Our goal as performing artists (as ‘independent entrepreneurs’) lays in fostering deeper awareness for movement, thus enhancing its cultural, eco-social, and economic fabric and impact. By engaging and teaching various IMPROVISATION formats over decades, my focus rests on the proprioceptive and kinaesthetic awareness which goes beyond the performing arts perspective. Space quality and accessibility is an (e)motional and transcendent agenda which encompasses all sensual beings – sharing and transforming the world we live in.

My teaching approach encompasses simple observations schemes – distilling the detail of things as well as framing philosophical and architectural contexts. I find it increasingly fascinating to observe the interrelation of external structural frameworks and their internal and continuously ever-changing elements (from) within – apprehending the crystallisation of the vitality and operative dynamics in human relations and beyond. IMPROVISATION is about empowering and providing the adequate tools to the protagonists involved. (Re)negotiating, (re)charging a modus operandi for IMPROVISATION (REAL-TIME-COMPOSITION) requires a discursive redefinition of the relation between primary positions of body and mind (yin and yang) in time and space as “real-time-com-position” means: de-com-position, com-position and position”.

Hence, such a sensitively emerging system can be (re)generated within the human fabric at large – by (re)placing/enhancing terminologies: expectation with waiting, certainty with trust, complaint with commitment, rigidity with rigor, avoidance with attendance, efficacy with sufficiency, conditioning with condition, abuse with use and disrupting with repairing. Proprioceptive and kinaesthetic awareness may transform space and time uncompromisingly and engage body and mind undivided. For that reason, the performing arts playing field can accomplish amazing things and exactly all of that is so profoundly important and relevant in overwhelming times: perceiving and enhancing the world within its continuum – searching for the miraculous.

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Quick & Fun by Daniel Yeung

The diversity in improvisation is a powerful tool in choreography. With a hybrid background of fine art, music and theatre, Daniel Yeung, the ingenious choreographer from Hong Kong, will lead the workshop. It encourages you to place your body into any environment and transform it into physical-painting elements, allowing an instantaneous dialogue between you and others. Hence, it will develop into a fun dance with an unexpected story-like framework of characters, emotions, etc., thus evolving into a fun game of "Instant Choreography." Through playing with different media, this workshop stimulates you to create, choreograph and perform, or even enhances your analytical skills, allowing spontaneous new dance ideas to pop up in interacting with each other. It is suitable for students from different artistic backgrounds to mingle and play!

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Free Music Improvisation with Dancer Initiation By Arnaud Lechat

How to improvise music with dancers? How to improvise instantly? How to approach the questions of time, rhythm, silence, space? Where does spontaneous inspiration come from? This three-hour practical workshop, offered by musician Arnaud Lechat and professional dancers, will attempt to provide avenues for reflection on these existential questions. Free music improvisation with dancer initiation workshop is open to all musicians. No improvisation experience is required but mastery of your instrument is necessary. Come with your musical instrument!