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Moving the Nomadic Body
How do I structure the map of my ephemeral physical space-time?
Movement and language create space. They create time.
The entanglement of imagination and language in our bodies creates kinetic representations.
‘Moving the nomadic body’ applies movement and choreography as tools of critical thinking, awareness, and political action.
It it a workshop of kinetic composition in which the body moves in the real and the imaginary, while choosing to influence and get influenced.
The body is characterized as a complex entity. The body creates spaces and this is expressed by its performativity in space.
Following the feminist geographer Massey, the workshop activates the three notions of space: discursive - imaginary - corporeal and aims to build new maps.
The workshop offers a different way of interacting with the written words and the reasoning space. How our body, by choosing to reject the hierarchy of the mind in understanding language, can perceive and move language differently?
The more sensitive the body is in its ‘ relational representations’, the more power has to act and inform space as a practice of possibilities, shaped by continuous representations and effects of self and other material relations.
The term ‘nomadic body’ has been influenced by the theory of nomadic subjectivity (Deleuze, Guattari, 1985) by stating free thought that travels away from domination and categorization. A nomadic body that perceives the ‘worn standard notions of hegemony’ and moves away from passivity and stagnation.
| Dance Practitioner |
Co-creative choreographic approaches / Expanding teaching possibilities
How do collaborations between artists and participants lead to a culture of democratic coexistence between artists, teachers, and students? HOW do collaborations form spaces of probabilities?
Applying active participation in groups allows access to the ‘common’, and collective action for change. It is a sustainable method that allows non-hierarchical approaches, includes common understanding, negotiates differences, and maintains participation as a productive field of possibilities, where shared experience can create new, unexpected, and decentralized knowledge (Bishop, 2012).
A co-creative choreographic constellation holds a new space for possible creativity and dialogue to emerge.
The facilitator learn to take the role of activator: "... a force that empowers others ... and facilitates the connection."
In this workshop, we will come in contact with theories that allow processes of collective creation and negotiation full of "consciousness".
The workshop offers tools and guidance for setting up active and safe spaces for creative processes to happen. The workshop demonstrates how to design and deliver short units of co-creation works alongside the dance teachers. We will also practically explore how to challenge the participants with performance value, assessment for learning, and professional works.
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