We live in a time that moves faster than the body can keep up with. Being a Body invites us to slow down – to experience how movement, breathing and time can create meaning when everything around us is accelerating.
The workshop is based on the artistic process behind To Be a Body, Is to Be Tied to a Certain World and provides space to explore how the body experiences and responds to the pace of contemporary life. A central focus is working with the senses – how the body registers space, time and impulses, and how this can open up reflections on what influences, controls or sets the direction of movement.
Through improvisation and bodily listening, we work with transitions between stillness and movement, between inner impulses and external influences. In the workshop, slowness is used as a method to explore how delay, repetition and acceleration can change our experience of time and presence, and how the body can become a place for both reflection and resistance.
The session is physical, sensory and dynamic – an invitation to experience the simple and radical nature of being a body, here and now.
Information:
Location: PRODA Professional Dance Training – Marstrand gata 8. 0566 Oslo.
Date: 07.05.26
Time: 10:00-12:00
For whom: Professional dance artists
The workshop is free of charge
Bio:
Chollada Phinitduang is a Thai-Norwegian dance artist, choreographer and performance artist based in Tromsø. She trained at the Norwegian College of Dance (formerly the School of Contemporary Dance) in Oslo, where her interest in somatic and interdisciplinary work began to take shape.
She has participated in projects by nationally and internationally renowned artists such as Marina Abramović, Lundahl & Seitl, Lisa Halle Baggesen, Carole Douillard, Yaniv Cohen and Caroline Skjørshammer, and has performed at venues such as the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Palazzo Strozzi, Bundeskunsthalle, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Malmö Art Museum, Oslo Biennial and Roskilde Festival.
Her own works have been shown in Berlin, Copenhagen and Bangkok. She is affiliated with Rom for Dans through the production Maur (ANTS) for Den Kulturelle Skolesekken, and will participate in the Dance Artist Exchange Residency in Yellowknife, Canada, in 2026.
She is currently working on To Be a Body, Is to Be Tied to a Certain World, which will premiere at Dansens Hus in May 2026.