Archa.lab workshops

The workshops are designed for anyone who would like to meet with artists, whose work influences the form of contemporary theatre, dance and music.

2015 Workshops:

Body Weather Workshop

by Frank van de Ven

April 25 & 26, 2015

Bodies are conceived not as fixed and separate entities but as constantly changing – just like the weather. Weather is seen as a complex system of forces and influences coursing through and beyond bodies and the world.

The term and philosophical basis for Body Weather was founded in the early 1980s by dancer Min Tanaka and further developed by Laboratories worldwide. Frank van de Ven was a member of Tanaka’s Maijuku Performance Company in Japan, from 1983 to 1991. With Katerina Bakatsaki he leads Body Weather Amsterdam, a platform for training and performance. Currently they are regular guest teachers at the SNDO – School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. For more info on Body Weather Amsterdam, see www.bodyweatheramsterdam.blogspot.com.