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Physical Improvisation: Observation and Action
with Daniel Lepkoff

 

 

The workshop offers an approach toward dancing and dance making through a physical practice of focusing one’s awareness on physical sensation while moving. This approach integrates observation and action and awakens us to the motivations, associations, and images which live within our movement and compose our presence as dancers. Through this work dancing becomes a finely tuned conscious physical dialogue with our inner and outer environment. 
The day will be organized into two sessions morning and afternoon with the a break in between
First Session: Physical Skills Second Session: Improvisation and Composition
Combining elements of Developmental Movement and Contact Improvisation we will clarify our physical relationship to gravity, center, extension, and the architecture of forces flowing the body. We explore energetic interactions through touch with other people, objects, and the floor; moving and being moved. Working with the eyes we develop a sense of the “visual space as a part of our body”, exploring a variety ways of relating to our visual field and exploring how the movement of the eyes influences our movement We explore the relationship of observation and action both while we are dancing and while we are watching others dancing. Exercises clarify the timing and process of forming an intention and the resulting composition of our next actions. We explore structures for groups of players to create spontaneous compositions in a shared space. We introduce themes that relate to composing over longer time spans: entrance and exit, beginnings and endings, repetition, and recycling of material.

Date: May 31 - June 9  2003

There will be 12 days of teaching - approx. 4 hours daily- and one day break

- Course fee 400 Euro
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