Training in somatic practices for performers
This training is geared towards professional dancers and advanced dance students. It aims at deepening and refining the dancers understanding of their own movement practice, helping them to find their own artisitc voice and movement vocabulary. Over the course of the workshop participants will physically engage with a variety of different somatic practices through guided movement explorations, scores and tasks. They will have the opportunity to embody some of the principles of Body-Mind Centering, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, Skinner Releasing Technique, Contact Improvisation and Rolfing. An embodied response to this material leads participants through an experiential learning process. Through this process they acquire a pre-linguistic understanding of their movement that they are encouraged to value as body-knowledge. After the movement sessions, the work is discussed in order to draw out the key concepts within the varied somatic approaches. These discussion-seminars will create a point of reference for participants to engage critically in conversations and research on current academic and artistic practices on the subject of embodiment.
Objectives:
- Introduce the participants to some of the key principles in somatic work.
- Facilitate a deeper and more acute understanding of the participants' own movement practice.
- Enrich the participants' undertsanding of the mechanics of the body.
- Offer an approach to movement that promotes injury-prevention.
- Offer techniques to engage in performing virtuous physical movement with awareness allowing for a longer performance career.
- Develop the participants' stage presence.
- Deepen body awareness and sensory perception.
- Awaken the participants' sense of their own body as three-dimensional.
- Provide tools for the mental health and well being of the dancer.
- Awaken a sense of curiosity about movement.
- Deepen the participants' awareness of their own movement patterns and habits.
- Provide tools to develop creative and choreographic material through attention to detail and the exploration of new movement pathways.
- Develop improvisation skills through awakening the ability to be in the present moment and attune to the movement of another dancer.
- Contextualise the participants' own creative and performance practice.
Objectives:
- Introduce the participants to some of the key principles in somatic work.
- Facilitate a deeper and more acute understanding of the participants' own movement practice.
- Enrich the participants' undertsanding of the mechanics of the body.
- Offer an approach to movement that promotes injury-prevention.
- Offer techniques to engage in performing virtuous physical movement with awareness allowing for a longer performance career.
- Develop the participants' stage presence.
- Deepen body awareness and sensory perception.
- Awaken the participants' sense of their own body as three-dimensional.
- Provide tools for the mental health and well being of the dancer.
- Awaken a sense of curiosity about movement.
- Deepen the participants' awareness of their own movement patterns and habits.
- Provide tools to develop creative and choreographic material through attention to detail and the exploration of new movement pathways.
- Develop improvisation skills through awakening the ability to be in the present moment and attune to the movement of another dancer.
- Contextualise the participants' own creative and performance practice.
