Dance!

How do you like to move through the space? How do you approach one another? Or how do you avoid each other? And how do you find your way around the space?

Drawing on impulses from performance art, participants explore new movement sequences and combine them into spontaneous choreographies. Inspiration comes from American dancer Anna Halprin, who understood dance as a communal process, and performance artist Simone Forti, who transforms simple movements such as pulling or carrying together into artistic actions. Being together, considering others, while still experiencing individual freedom of movement within a group are key focuses of this workshop.

There is also painting involved: building on the new dance movements, participants translate their movements through space onto paper using brushes and watercolors. What does a turn look like? A jump? A roll? The groups then try to dance the brushstrokes created by the others. And when new movement figures emerge from this, things can get pretty funny.