WARM-IN sessions
They are usually open and free occasions 1,5 hours before the start of the performance.
During the 60 min together we create an experimental space, where the audience gets the chance to connect to the performance, their own body and the others.
The sessions are based on body awareness, co-existence in physical space and aim to enhance our ability to experience the world through different sensorial faculties, offered for all who wish to move.
We give space for the audience to really arrive and to be able to become receptive and open. The aim is that not only the dancers but the audience also warm up for the piece.
STRETCHING
Contrary to the Warm up, Streching followes a dance performance, and therefore is an experiment on reflection and translation. We offer the space and playful tools to shift our memory of the expeience into other media,different artforms,words or images. We investigate if we were drained,tired, stiff or motivated, energized. What moments did engrave themselves into our minds, and what led us to distant associations? How does many different,or even conflicting opinions fit in the same space? Trough Streching we became more flexible, they say – but not only our muscles: we attempt to wash away that rigid border between artsy and ordinary.
FOOD(C)RAVE WORKSHOP
Meeting of dance education and food design, in the name of multzsensorality and experiments. Gastronomy is a surprising rethinking of traditions,which uses and elevates food,taking it from the usual context and building a complex experience from creation to consumption,involving all of our senses. Now we combine this field with the bodily experience based methodology of dance education.
Our focus are the cultural and social taboos surrounding the boss and eating – things considered disgusting, sacral and forbidden food, inbuilt habits,bodily effects and boundaries. Next to these,the positive aspects of eating and movement: playfulness, pleasure and freedom. What tension stretches between following our craves and feeling ashamed? How can dance and eating be liberating? Can we create a sensorially activating dance-feast?
Developing humanity through dehumanization
Inviting participants to think together and look into the questions affecting both dance and puppetry: living,dead,remembering, abstraction, virtual,etc.) How can we (willingly or against our will) lose our social nature? What makes a difference between putting ourselves into an object or an imaginary creature shaped from our own body? What methods do performative arts use to loose ourselves in order to build characters? How can an inorganic element (puppet or cruch) become an organic extension of our body?
We also cover the assumption,that experiencing transformation in theatrical environment can also educate us to be more tolerant, to accept others that may have a different look, abilities or way of thinking.
ART OF THE ROOM SOUNDS WORKSHOP
During the virtual sound-space workshop of David Somlo the participants have the opportunity to immerse in the sounds and acoustic characteristics of their own home. During the workshop we experiment with the sound of the familiar space trough different examples and simple exercises,then we create small sound-installations. We compose for fridge, toilets, radiators and dryer tongs.
