Week 1:
Tuesday October 4th
Artist: Ana Sanchez-Colberg
INTRODUCTION to the LAB: Defining Parameters and Paradigms: Choreography in the 21st century: a process? A system? A network? What is artistic research? Setting the tasks of the research.
Thursday October 6th
Artist: Ana Sanchez-Colberg
Choreography Acts not Choreographic Statements: rethinking how choreography works.
The workshops with Ana are focused on confronting conventional attitudes that limit dance to a ‘language’ and the medium of dance to a platform for choreographer s to ‘say something’. The sessions will question the orthodoxy behind concepts such as “the message”, “intention” that perpetuate the perception of dance performance as an act of “reading” and prolong the dichotomized opposition between narrative or no-narrative, between total authorial control and naive laissez-faire. Ana’s proposals aim to open ways to consider dance as a phenomena, “held” between performers on stage, together with the audience, and is a moment of life process, not of cultural product and exchange.
Ana Sanchez-Colberg: artistic director of Theatre enCorps and Professor of Choreography and Composition University Dance and Circus Stockholm. She will continue to act as over all Lab leader and main mentor. For more information see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Sanchez-Colberg and www.theatreencorps.blogspot.com.
Ana Sanchez-Colberg: artistic director of Theatre enCorps and Professor of Choreography and Composition University Dance and Circus Stockholm. She will continue to act as over all Lab leader and main mentor. For more information see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Sanchez-Colberg and www.theatreencorps.blogspot.com.
Week 2: Tuesday October 11 & Thursday October 13
Artist: John-Paul Zaccarini
Staging failure: Risk in Contemporary Dance Theatre and Performance
Drawing from his work in circus, John Paul’s sessions will explore how the specific tensions in circus movement, a staging of possible “failure” and the notion of working at a certain (super) human limit can inform and invigorate dance and choreographic practice. When working with circus equipment the artist is faced with certain restrictions and physical conditions: what creative possibilities open up under such constraints to movement? How can dance artists explore these notions of tension, constraint and failure without a piece of circus equipment? What choreographic potential is there in the clown, who fails the most spectacularly of all? This workshop, on the cusp of the theatrical, inspired by circus, deals with human failure in movement and its relation to the tragic and the comic.
John Paul Zaccarini, independent choreographer and performer, director of F/Z company in the UK and formerly member of DV8 Physical Theatre. John-Paul is currently a Ph D candidate at University of Stockholm Department of Theatre Studies. He work focuses on interdisciplinary dialogues between dance, theatre, film and circus. He is currently faculty at The Circus Space London and Bristol’s Circomedia.
Week 3/4: Tuesday October 18 to Thursday October 27
Lab time: with mentor workshops of developing and maintaining a process, participants begin to work on their independent projects, group discussion and sharings. By the end of this period proposals for independent work will be finalised. This period will include a session on reflective practice and documentation/archiving of practice.
Week 5: Tuesday November 1st & Thursday November 3rd
Artist: Michael Klïen
Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change or What Worlds do your Creations Build?
Klien’s sessions propose to fundamentally rethink the relationship between dance and choreography, examining personal artistic practice against wider ecological, social and political structures. The workshop readily entangles practice and theory, drawing from various fields of human knowledge production, such as anthropology, fine arts, theology, physics, philosophy and system theory. At the end of both sessions participants will have a practice-based experience of Klien¹s methodologies and ideas and will have gathered an insight into numerous new directions in the field of dance and choreography. Participants will be able to use the session¹s material (exercises, ideas and theoretical insights) to further develop their own personal practice, whether as a choreographer and/or dancer.
Michael Klien, independent choreographer and researcher, former director of Ireland’s Daghdah Dance Company. Klien was associate choreographer at Frankfurt Ballet under the directorship of William Forsythe. He holds a PhD from University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor of www.choreograph.net.
Michael Klien, independent choreographer and researcher, former director of Ireland’s Daghdah Dance Company. Klien was associate choreographer at Frankfurt Ballet under the directorship of William Forsythe. He holds a PhD from University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor of www.choreograph.net.
Week 6/7/8: Tuesday November 8 to Thursday November 24: Lab time
Week 9
Tuesday November 29 & Thursday December 1st :
Artists: Yolanda Gonzales (Jai) and UnterwegsTheater (Heidelberg, GR)
Two-in-one:sharing the dance: new approaches to duet forms
The session will be led by Unterwegs director Yolanda Gonzales and members of the Company Stavros Apostolatos and Ini Dil. Using material from the company’s repertoire the workshop will look into action, reaction, activity,passivity, direction, weight, impulse, ending, distance, tempo within the specific constraints of the duet form where ‘two-work—as-one’
Jai Gonzales, Bernhard Fauser and Wal Mayans founded UnterwegsTheater in 1988 in Heidelberg with a strong focus on interdisciplinary performance. Since then they have been producing award wining dance including: "Sensaciones" which toured internationally with the support of the Goethe Institute, “Guell” recipeint of the grand prix in the international choreographic competition in Saitama, Tokyo, and “Middle of Nowhere” in 1999, is performed at New York’s prestigious "The Kitchen". In 1991 the company establishes the festival "DANCE internationally," an annual event of contemporary dance conceived and organized with support from the city of Heidelberg and has programmed internationally renown artists such as William Forsythe, Amanda Miller, Hans van Mannen, Sasha Waltz, Jerome Bell and Xavier Le Roy. For more information visit http://www.unterwegstheater.de/index.htm
Week 10-11: Tuesday December 8 to Thursday December 15: Lab time
Lab Time research and development of independent project with mentor support
Week 12: Preparation for ‘Sharing’
Technical rehearsals leading to public presentations Tuesday 20th and Wednesday 21 December.
Thursday 22 December: open meeting discussion/closure of Lab.
