Forsythe Improvisation Workshop

Forsythe Improvisation Workshop

at Jan Fabre's Troubleyn Laboratorium in Antewerpen

January 04-17. 2010
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The two week workshop focuses on the Improvisational Technologies that William Forsythe,
the Ballet Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company developed and used to create their works.
This course gives you a chance to learn and work with these methods to distill your
knowledge into a higher quality of dance and to become a more articulate and graceful
performer.
These two weeks offer a period of study, practice and research with the possibility of a
creation including those participants that excel.
At the beginning we'll explore simple ideas that result in complex movements and better
your sense of coordination. We will learn Improvisational Modalities; tools such as folding,
bridging, extrusions, brushing, point-point-line, isometries, shearing and many more.
Through examining the components of movement (dynamics, momentum, direction,
inclination, velocity, rhythm, etc. ) we will learn to use their influences and how to construct
them in any number of choreographic combinations.
The workshop will bring you to an awareness in which your body does the thinking,
allowing you to move very fast, yet without violence and still remain articulate and generous
with your movements.
The main benefit of this type of improvisation is to reach a fluid state of creativity, where you
can make split-second decisions while in movement, teaching you to retain their qualities
and to use them in your dancing or choreographic practice.
This workshop offers a great setting where ideas can flow in a charged environment,
creating work that is fresh, inspired and inspiring.
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Different bodies leave different traces in space and grace has little to do with weight or
shape.
In my opinion grace comes from the connectedness of the body and mind and their ability to
bring movement into form and flow creating not only shapes in space but composition and
harmony at a particular speed and for a particular time.
To create a clear, crystallized version of any artistic vision you'll need to start with the
creation of a certain language. To build up that language is easier with the use of this kind of
improvisation.
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The two week workshop is 360 Euros per person.
The course has a maximum of 20 places.
Please send your registration before 20.12.2009 to: tamas@tamasmoricz.com
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Days will start at 10.30 with a warm up class, followed by four working hours including
short breaks as necessary and a separate lunch break.
Saturdays we'll finish at 14.00 h. and Sunday is our day off.
The Theatre offers catering where you can arrange to have well prepered food during the
day at a very reasonable price.
Accomodation is to be arranged by participants themselves, however you can ask for
information on finding suitable lodgings in Antwerpen