WORKSHOPS
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SURENDRA TEKALE [India] | 2nd August
Kill the breath, kill the rhythm
This workshop aims to help participants understand their creative potential, their physicality, and experience the exploration of movement, breathing, and rhythm. Participants will have an immersive exploration of movement, working on various physical expressions and discovering the possibilities of the body. The workshop will guide participants in understanding the importance of breath in movement, allowing them to use breath as a tool to improve their physicality and emotional connection. Participants will explore the rhythm, learning how to synchronize and desynchronize their movements with various beats and melodies to create expressions.
Timings: 3-5pm
Venue: The Creative Arts Academy
Fees: 500 INR cash only
Fenia Chatzoukou & Csenger K. Szabo [Germany] | 3rd August
Physical Alertness Workshop
The aim of the workshop is to create a physical environment for participants willing to explore their own capabilities in a playful context. Through movement situations/ecologies of improvisation, we invite everyone to discover tools that will enhance their awareness and personal movement vocabulary. By introducing the ball game, we encourage an active involvement in the learning process in order to increase the quality of perception as well as interactions amongst students. Through this external tool we engage physically with our whole body and we refine the elements of weight, interconnectivity between upper and lower body part, and coordination patterns. Also working in duets/trios or with the whole group gives an opportunity for reflection, active decision making and new insights in the learning process.
We also offer movement combinations, rhythmical patterns and steps, that can be related and integrated to the participant’s own movement universe. We aim to create a playground-like practice, where participants are challenged to reach and expand their own limits in a playful way. An additional component that we find crucial is cultivation of creativity. Increasing freedom of movement without creation of styles and techniques.
Timings: 2pm-4pm
Venue: Chaitown Community
Fees: 500 INR cash only
ESENCO DANCE COMPANY [Italy] | 4th August
Anatomy of Feelings
Workshop for all ages and levels of experience, a laboratory to deepen and enter into a deeper knowledge of one’s body, to recognize oneself in a timeless space guided by music and the connection with oneself and others. The laboratory analyzes the response of the physical body subjected to different phases of sensations and emotions aroused by the imagination or by one’s own experience.What changes in the body? How does this change according to the deeper alterations of feeling? How does it connect with other bodies? The different phases of the laboratory will lead us to answer these questions or probably to create new ones.
Timings: 11am-12.3opm
Venue: BCAF (Bridging Culture & Arts Foundation)
Fees: 500 INR cash only
ARTUR VIDAL [Spain/France] | 4th August
Sonomateca
This workshop reflects on the way we listen in our everyday practice and suggests methods for paying attention to sounds that may vary from our usual ones. More specifically, we will be looking at our whole body as a metaphorical ear that can not only listen but also dance.This practice, that includes meditation, movement and sound making exercices, could be of the interest of dancers, musicians and anyone interested in how sounds, music, listening and the body can meet.
Photo Credit: Internal structure of the lungs, 3D printed plastic. Dave Farnham. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Timings: 5-6.30pm
Venue: Chaitown Community
Fees: Free entry donations in cash welcome
HSU CHEN-WEI DANCE COMPANY[Taiwan] | 5th August
Pro-Dance Class
Chen-Wei’s contemporary movement style is both powerful and delicate, with training that emphasizes the coordination and control of every subtle muscle and movement. Step by step, this training unlocks the potential for larger, more dynamic physical expressions. By dissecting the body to achieve more refined usage and smoothly transitioning through various angles and movements, this workshop offers a new perspective on contemporary dance.
Timings: 3.30-5pm
Venue: Pathshala Institute of Performing Arts
Fees: 500 INR cash only
ARTUR VIDAL [Spain/France] | 10th August
Introduction to Sonic Meditations with Artur Vidal
What if listening begins with the whole body?
What if tuning means to feel a common bond with others and the surroundings?
What if scores trigger auditory fantasies?
What if sounds expand awareness?
What if music is a group of people finding the current of a river?
The Sonic Meditations created by american composer Pauline Oliveros are 25 ‘recipes’ for tuning listening awareness and for making sonic experiences, including a sound walk, that are accessible to people from all ages, with and without musical training
Photo Credit: Visualising the human breath (“Sing”), Artwork. Jayne Wilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Timings: 11-12.30pm
Venue: B-CAF (Bridging Culture and Arts Foundation)
Fees: Free entry donations in cash welcome
ARTUR VIDAL [Spain/France] | 11th August
Sonomateca
This workshop reflects on the way we listen in our everyday practice and suggests methods for paying attention to sounds that may vary from our usual ones. More specifically, we will be looking at our whole body as a metaphorical ear that can not only listen but also dance.This practice, that includes meditation, movement and sound making exercices, could be of the interest of dancers, musicians and anyone interested in how sounds, music, listening and the body can meet.
Photo Credit: SEM alveoli in the lung. David Gregory & Debbie Marshall. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Timings: 7-8.30pm
Venue: Buoyant Performing Arts
Fees: Free entry donations in cash welcome
