Physical Theatre Training
Experimenting with expressive 'limit-experiences'

Warm-up for this training will be marked by elements of Yoga, as well as exercises for breathing and energy, which may also include working with the voice. Our centre will be activated and strenghted, our skin supplied with blood, to easily fit the different body formations. The group will create an energy pool, which will be tapped for expressive lust, mutual trust and transparent presence. We'll play with a variety of walks (e.g. silly walks), surface visualizations in space and on our own skin, as well as with the imagination of landscapes, that allow for individual travel in our body and for improvisation.
In this process we'll keep questioning the 'naturalness' of movement, which we may perhaps render nonsensical taking on different bodies. We'll also focus on the technical, muscular and formal principles of expression. Certain ritualized forms of dance and movement, like twisting, ondulating and transformative processes in walking and in the group as collective movement will open access to archetypal states, which prepare for working on phylogenetic-animalistic body layers, surreal body states - perhaps in connection with objects - and structured mass movements. Experimenting with expressive 'limit-experiences' will be confronted with learning through observing the others. To finish up the workshop small-scale evolutions and transformations with a clear-cut beginning and end will eventually allow for the emergence of individual sequences, which can then be interwoven with the stories created in the group.
This workshop is addressing especially dancers, who would like to expand their spectrum of habitual expression and invites them to take up new challenges in both body training and the creative play with imagination.


Georg Blaschke
Georg Blaschke lives in Vienna and works as a freelance dancer, trainer and choreographer at home and abroad. His activity as a trainer, guest choreographer and coach, particularly in the fields of contemporary dance technique and movement research, follows invitations from internationally renowned festivals, universities and workshop spaces. He has been successfully active as a performer and producer of his own choreographic works in various formats for many years. His current projects engage in research of architectural conditions of representation and perception, and explore the possibilities of a somatic approach to choreographic understanding. The Feldenkrais Method has decisively influenced his work with regard to movement research, partner work and analysis of the presence of the performer. His interest in reassessments and reinterpretations of the articulating body has increasingly led him to the reconstruction concept in contemporary choreography.
Current works:
"Jetzt bist Du dran." / a choreogrphic reconstructural project assigned by Andrei Jerschik / 2008
"körper. bauen. Stellen." / 2008 - 2009
"in case of loss" / Trio Performance / 2010
"Your Dancer." / a somatic portrait of Liz King / 2010
"ensemble in gefahr!" / a male ritual with Robert Steijn / 2011
"Somatic Script" / 2011
"On the Platform With My Father" / 2012
www.georgblaschke.com