"the body as a fold in a landscape"
We will explore the idea: "how can we assimilate our body into surroundings?"
We start up this workshop through warming up the body and mind.
Later we work on different improvisation tasks and instant compositions. Through the use of slight displacements in the relationship between body, object, place, we will look for ways to see how we can fold, or unfold beyond borders, create dreamy and absurd in-between worlds.
In the workshop we search for experiences that we can have together as a group and as individuals. Get into dialogs, have verbal and non-verbal discussions.
This workshop is open for everyone. Just come with comfortable clothes to move !
Information:
Date: Saturday 03.02.24
Time: 11:00-12:30
For: Dancers, pre professional dance students and everyone with a dance practice.
Age: 18+
Registration: billettsalg@dansenshus.com (registration deadline is 02.02.24 at 16:00)
Language: English
The workshop is free
Dressing rooms are not available and there is no space to do individual warm up before the workshop.
Bios:
Heine Avdal (Norway) has been active in the fields of contemporary dance, performance, video and visual arts. After studying at the Oslo National College of the Arts (1991-94) and PARTS 1995-96 (Brussels), he worked as a performer for various companies in Norway and Belgium. Since 2000, Heine Avdal started collaboration with Yukiko Shinozaki.
Heine Avdal’s focus has been on the distribution of space. He questions how spatial conventions affect the way we experience and move through private/public spaces. Considering people’s preconceptions of spatial conventions and through slight shifts, or manipulations he searches for unexpected intersections between different components of a space. In this context, Avdal also questions how technology is being used or, can be used in acquiring new meanings and perceptions on the human body and on our daily surroundings. He investigates the blurred distinction between what is artificial and what is organic.
Yukiko Shinozaki (Japan) studied classical ballet in Tokyo from age 6 to 18. After high school, she moved to the US to study contemporary dance and psychology at Portland State University. From 1993 to 1997 she lived in NYC, where she presented her own work at venues including the Judson Church, St Mark’s Church, and the Merce Cunningham Studio. Since 2000, Shinozaki has been collaborating with Heine Avdal.
Shinozaki’s work focuses on internal complexities and contradictions of the body. The process of transformation takes an important role in her movement vocabulary: through subtle shifts and manipulations, familiar actions slowly transform into an unfamiliar realm/landscape. She considers artistic collaborations as an important factor in her work and she consciously integrate coincidental elements that arrive in encounters with different artists and situations. She often works in an intuitive way, yet she is also fascinated by something beyond her imagination.
Avdal and Shinozaki together started their own company fieldworks.
Since 2000 more than 20 productions were created, which all have been touring internationally.
The various productions are concerned with “performativity” and allow for an open interpretation of movement as a heterogeneous combination of a variety of media. Consequently, the artists draw on a broad range of disciplines and expertise: performance, dance, visual arts, video, music, and technology.
Every performance plays on the tension and contrast between the body and objects, the body and the mind, fact and fiction/representation, the tangible and the invisible, the organic and the artificial, ... Recurrent themes in the productions include the relationship between performer and spectator, the non-hierarchical approach to the various elements of a performance, and the exploration of both theatrical and non-theatrical environments.
fieldworks productions are made for a wide variety of locations/settings, both public and private; for the theatre: you are here (2008), nothing's for something (2012), a supermarket: Borrowed Landscape (2013), a hotel room: Field Works-hotel (2011), an office: Field Works-office (2010), a concert hall: The Otheroom (2016 - a collaboration with contemporary music composer Rolf Wallin), or even a whole building and its surroundings: the site-specific project carry on (2015-20xx). unannounced (2017) is a performance on fragmentation of time and space that blurs the conventional distinctions between the ‘outside’ and the ‘inside’ of the aesthetic event, and that takes place in the black box as well as in its surrounding rooms, halls, corridors, foyer, offices, storages,…
Avdal and Shinozaki’s latest stage work gone here (yet) to come is a piece inspired by the tactility of darkness and worlds underneath the surface we walk on, the landscapes under our feet and the layers beyond what is shown. Today’s new present presents itself as a challenge, as yet another space in which and with which to work, another space to interrogate, to infiltrate, to adapt to, and to subtly shift, from the inside out.
Recently Avdal and Shinozaki have been performing the new site-specific projects in gaps & patches and elsewhere & elsewhen. Currently they are working on a new stage production titled “until”.
For a full overview of all performances, see fieldworks website www.field-works.be