ART OF LOOKING SIDEWAYS | A weekend workshop with Pavel Zuštiak

MAKING WORK: Ideas, Practice and Process
A workshop with Pavel Zuštiak, Artistic Director of Palissimo

Designed for choreographers, dancers, actors, artists.

Each session will start with a guided physical work that will warm up the body, open the senses, imagination and heighten physical and mental awareness. This workshop will incorporate exploration of body systems, then uses that exploration to introduce composition. The workshop objectives are to develop conscious presence while improvising in performance; to amplify live time in the performance space; to support performers in developing and enhancing skills connecting technique to composition; to offer tools for developing and crafting the work. Attention will be given to generating structures for dance, generating movement material, editing and deconstruction of the material, relationships between composition and improvisation and introducing elements of chance.

The objective of these sessions is to unveil and develop that which is brought to the class by the participants, and address some of the questions they encounter in their creative process.

This workshop brings participants away from the notion that original is that which didn’t exist before. We will introduce different ways of getting away from the planned, comfortable and familiar in dance making.

Some of the thoughts/questions that we might address: How do you start? What is material? Improvisation / Scoring / What to set? What to leave open? How do we remember? You cannot change something unless you know what you are doing. (Mosh Feldenkreis) Looking sideways / What is the opposite of what I am doing?

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