Dance Improvisations: Systems & Spatial Techniques Workshop with Elizabeth Corbett 9 - 13 July, Amsterdam The dance workshop is intended to provide a unique insight into methods and techniques of choreographic improvisation, with particular reference to the work of Rudolf Laban and William Forsythe. Elizabeth Corbett's teaching involves the use of body part assignments as initiating points or surfaces of inspiration. In the application of these to paths and to movements where the continuation of the physical direction of the movement is blocked (negative space), residual movement results from the initial task. In the advanced stages of this exploration, multiple systems and operations can be applied leading to the evolution of hybrid systems. Independent limb work, isolation, and a general widening of movement choices and directions result in a departure from known patterns of movement. While generating these movements, and building a diversity in choices and source material, other aspects of improvisation will be applied; listening with bodies for interaction within a group, building sensitivity to architectural surroundings and music, developing a more profound awareness, all towards enriching the movement experiences. The workshop will allow participants to develop an awareness of the folding mechanics in the body, to feel and sense individual spaces. Participants will have the opportunity to use the Frankfurt Ballet's own training material, namely the digital research made available in the CD-rom Improvisation Technologies in which William Forsythe and dancers from the Frankfurt Ballet demonstrate inscriptions and movements with visual and aural explanations, thus allowing a clear form of writing with the body to emerge. This intensive programme is less about how to improvise, than about how to analyse and create movement while improvising. For further details and an application form please visit the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University website: www.amsu.edu or contact Aliz Ertler The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University Postbus 53066 1007 RB Amsterdam Tel: +31 (0)20 6200225 Fax: +31 (0)20 6249368 E-mail: aliz.ertler@amsu.edu
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