WORKSHOPS DE DANÇA E MOVIMENTO
Danças na Cidade, Eira, Teatro Camões

During the festival nine different dance and movement workshops take place, during which dancers and choreographers can meet and work together. These workshops are open to all dance students and professional dance practitioners from Portugal and from the visiting companies.

Organisation: Danças na Cidade
Co-organisation: Forum Dança
Place: Danças na Cidade, Eira, Teatro Camões

Conditions:
Registration fee for all the workshops: # dias do workshop x 10 €
Registration and information: Forum Dança, tel 21.342 89 85, fax 21.342 89 86
forumdanca@forumdanca.pt
Maximum 15 participants for each workshop.
Provisional registration until 29 May - please include a short curriculum (max. 1 page).
Confirmation of acceptance by 31 May.
payment required before 14 June.


Financed by the European Union, under the Culture 2000 programme


PROGRAMME:
ARIRY ANDRIAMORATSIRESY
from 17 to 20,
from monday to thursday,
between 10H00 and 14H00

This workshop focuses on the dance vocabulary that Ariry and his company members have developed over many years of research and experimentation. The basis of this movement vocabulary is to be found in the traditional dances from Madagascar and various influences from modern and contemporary dance. The class starts with a warm up, with special attention to the use and loosening of the spinal chord. The participants will also work with improvisations in pair. The classes will be accompanied with live music from Madagascar.

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MANUELA RASTALDI
from 17 to 20,
from monday to thursday,
between 15H00 and 19H00		 This workshop proposes some matters and techniques I have been experimenting in my last performances and that I would like to develop and radicalise in the future.
The body considered as point of view and point of departure.
The body as a print in space and time.
How to translate abstract-poetical matters in physical experience.
How to explore the quality of spontaneous movement to develop composition.
How to articulate consciously every step between improvisation and fixed material, to make the distinction / the trajectory between 'instant composition', improvisation with 'rules', formalised impro, formalised material in free timing, fixed material used freely, written and fixed material connected to pre-determinate timing.
How to combine different levels of 'freedom', for example: one voice completely fixed (trajectory, timings, material), another is 'free' (impro on known material + trajectories), the third one in between to create the links while treating freely known patterns and cells of movements.
How to play with memories, space and distance, with what remains after a movement or a contact between two dancers.
How to achieve dramaturgical contents through physical experience.

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MUGYIONO KASIDO
from 19 to 22,
from wednesday to saturday,
between 10H00 and 14H00		 Together with the participants Mugyiono will go through the basic notions and movements of classical Javanese dance and Javanese mask dance. Just as in his own choreographic work, the link will be made to contemporary forms movement language and dance.


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MEG STUART
from 20 to 25,
from thursday to tuesday
(except sunday),
between 15H00 and 19H00		 The workshop will concentrate on how images (unconsciously) affect the way we move. The images used will come from existing sources (found material/photos/mass media/urban life) mixed with images we create for ourselves and images we have of our own body. We will integrate these images in our work and explore how they can expand our imagination and physical range. With these entrances for improvisation, strategies will be discussed for their development into choreographic ideas.

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MYRIAM GOURFINK
from 21 to 26,
from friday to wednesday
(except sunday),
between 15H00 and 19H00		 We will explore weight, slowness and respiration - three factors that define our 'pre-movements', our most profound motory resources. From these pre-movements we go on to work on micro-movements and micro-changes of direction, thus generating a considerable quantity of gestures - with the aim to take into consideration every single millimetre of space, every bit of our body, our skin, our cells.
The continuous interaction of data (weight, respiration, slowness) acts like a cleaning the inner body and the space around. This incessant flow makes appear on our face and in our body a varied palette of humours that traverse us without us being able to name them. It is there before language (or beyond?), in a state of poetry.
This quality of concentration and attention to all psychic and bodily action, are the interior revolutions of each one of us and of each moment, which we will keep track of while formalising a language: a choreographic score written a priori. For that we will use informatic devices and, more particularly environmental composition software.

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ALLISON BROWN
from 24 to 26,
from monday to wednesday,
between 10H00 and 14H00

A four day workshop centering on the theme of 'simple and complex'. I will teach a warm up for approximately one hour, stressing techniques I find helpful (basically ballet and yoga). Material will be developed to use as a foundation for improvising. Forsythian improvisation techniques such as fragmentation, reassignment, inversion, as well as other improv methods will be implemented to explore the 'simple' and the 'complex'. The questions I am asking are: can the complex become simple? Can the simple become complex? How effective is complexity and at what point is it cancelled out and vice versa?

Allison Brown lives and works in Frankfurt. Dances with Ballet Frankfurt since 1996 until present. Worked with Amanda Miller, Saburo Teshigawara, Twyla Tharp and New York City Ballet. Has been choreographing since 1999 and presented pieces at the 'Emerging Choreographers' evenings in 2000 and 2001. Taught workshops in Kyoto and Tokyo in 2001 and 2002. Will create a work in 2003 for the TAT in Frankfurt.

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THOMAS HAUERT
from 25 a dia 27,
from tuesday to thursday,
between 10H00 and 14H00		 The main focus of this workshop will be the exploration of movement possibilities of our body. Every joint has its range of movement and there are countless combinations possible. The body itself possesses a greater practical knowledge about its anatomy and its mechanics, their actions and reactions, and their interactions with external forces (gravity, centrifugal- and centripetal force etc.) than our mind.
By using improvisational tasks we can tap into this phenomenon to create forms, rhythms, movement qualities and trajectories that go beyond what our mind could invent. As the mind is handing over more responsibility to the body, it is free to observe, to interfere by challenging the body with additional directions that will lead it beyond its habits and to enjoy.

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DAVID ZAMBRANO
from 26 to 30,
from wednesday to sunday,
between 15H00 and 19H00

 David Zambrano developed and teaches his own technique FLYING LOW, which focuses on the dancer' s relationship with the ground. He has performed and taught this approach to dance in more than 40 countries throughout Europe, Asia and both the Americas. His training skills are very much in demand by dance companies, festivals and schools such as Rosas/Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Sasha Waltz and Guests, Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus, P.A.R.T.S., Theaterschool Amsterdam/SNDO, Internationale Tanzwochen Wien and Movement Research/New York. He has been the recipient of many grants, awards and fellowships in the USA, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The New York State Council for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Joyce-Mertz-Gilmore Foundation.

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AKRAM KHAN
from 27 to 30,
from thursday to sunday,
between 15H00 and 19H00		 Drawing inspiration from Kathak (Indian Classical Dance) and release-based contemporary dance, Akram will introduce participants to a personalised technique which he has developed through his own rigorous training and experience in both of these disciplines. The classes will focus on fast rhythmical patterns, relationship with the floor, de-constructing the principles of Kathak and introducing participants to the structures and physical dynamics of Akram's own work.
Participants will be expected to have a creative input and examine with Akram various methods of improvisation leading to the development of their own material and movement ideas/structures. Participants are advised to bring along knee - pads and to wear loose fitting and comfortable clothes. Dance background: Any Indian Classical Dance form, Contemporary Dance, Classical Ballet.

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