Open-Form Composition classes

Coming up in July 20-21 2009, Hamburg, Dancekiosk

Corpo d'agua-Undone

photos by João da Silva

Six Thesis on Repetition

Composition workshop with BA choreography students of ArtEZ, inspired by Miklos Erdely

1. The unique is devaluated by repetition, with its concrete existence increasing and its essential existence decreasing

2. Only what is repeated is manifested

3. What is born in repetition also dies in repetition

4. In the turmoil of creation the same can never be achieved twice

5. Creation manifests itself suddenly

6. The absolute new is unrecognizable, and thus it cannot manifest itself

Open-Form Composition classes

March 2nd till March 7th teaching Open Form Composition at the Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa.

Introduction to the concept of 'Holding-Form' and the exploration thereof in solo and group constellations.

Branding Lecture and Seminar at Cooperative Dance Center, Berlin

January 29th and 30th lecture and seminar on 'Branding' at Hutz, Berlin.

Excerpt:

If one is to be able to powerfully navigate through the geo-politics of resource distribution geo-political awareness seems to me to be crucial to any singularity, especially artistic singularity, that is, a dynamic notion of subjectivity and identity which challenges and resists the fixity of representational forms.

Who gets money from whom? Who decides which work can be shown where, when and for how much?

Artistic identity, or rather singularity, can not be dissociated from the geo-political milieu it exists in. A good brand practice pays close attention to this. It understands that the artist and his/her work is a body-brain with two halves.

Branding provides frames for thinking about forward and consistent movement, it awakens an understanding of the trajectory between pre-expressive intensity, an in-corporation so to speak, what is literally in the body, what pulses before it is or can be codified, the rush, the acceleration, and expressive emergence, when the body becomes externalized, objectified, an ex-corporation, a becoming other to oneself and others .

The inherent movement with-in artists, their ideas and artistic manifestations thereof, the milieus in which they exist and the sort of impact their works have in their particular contexts. I see Branding as a frame of reference, an awareness tool, a practice of alignment, a moving lens through which one can understand, feel , enjoy and communicate a process of artistic becoming.

Seminar at Master of Arts in Contemporary Dance Pedagogy Program Frankfurt

On the 21st of January I will be working with the Master students of the Contemporary Dance Pedagogy Program in Frankfurt.

For more on the program follow the link

Bending back in a field of experience

Follow the link (volume 2, Tangent's section) to read the paper I have written on my collaboration with artist Doran George.