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MOVING THE ENVIRONMENT: QUESTIONS INTO FORM
a dance technique and approach to movement research developed by: Daniel Lepkoff
We look at our movement as a physical dialogue with the environment and explore the form and composition of these interactions as a language for making dances.
Technique
We explore the details inside of ordinary functional movement: stillness, breathing, rolling, reaching, crawling, standing,walking, spiraling, running, falling, pushing, pulling, seeing, listening. Looking at the architecture and geometry of forces moving through the body expose associations, connections, and relationships between movements low or high and slow or fast.
We address all our physcial senses. Working with eyes closed, using stillness, moving slower or faster, practicing alternate ways of using the eyes, interacting with objects, and working with touch, offer simple techniques that alter our ordinary experience. This provides opportunities to consciously participanting in the movement our attention. This allows us to read new information from our experiences and form new understandings and images.
Composition
Exercises will focus on experiencing ‘the space’ as a part of the body.
Simple solo and ensemble scores use the studio as a shared perceptual space and provide frames for manifesting our movement choices in time and space. Feedback from alternating and integrating observation and action, provide a practical laboratory for communicating our desires and images.
Our shared physical practice forms a base for spontaneous solo and ensemble compositions.
PUBLIC SHOWING
Material developed in the workshop will be presented to the public at the end of the week. The focus will be live performance as a vehicle for sharing information. We will use this opportunity to think about the nature of improvising in performance and to consider what is happening physically in the minds and bodies the performers and audience members in the theater.
WHEN: August 5 – 11, 2024, 10am – 5pm (1 hr lunch break included)
PUBLIC SHOWING: August 11, 2024, 8pm
WHERE: Žižkostel, Prague (CZ)
FEE: 5000 CZK / 210 EUR (student, maternity leave discount 4000 CZK / 165EUR)
Participation in the workshop is subject to a personal invitation – send us your CV indicating your level of experience and motivation letter (crew.cz@gmail.com). The registration is closed 15th July.
