Physical Theatre Training
Experimenting with expressive experiences at your own edge

Part of the warm-up are elements of Yoga and exercises for breath, energy and voice. Our centre will be activated and strengthened, the skin well supplied with blood, our bone structure and inner organs consciously perceived under the influence of gravity. The group becomes an energy pool, nourishing expressive pleasure, mutual trust and transparent presence.
We will play with walks (silly walks), visualizations of surfaces in the space and on our skin, and imaginary landscapes that allow individual travelling in the body and improvisations. We will keep asking the question if and when movement is “natural” and by accepting the diverse bodies under the influence of physical forces we will potentially find that question in the end absurd. We focus on technical, muscular and formal principles of expression. Certain ritualistic dance and movement forms such as turns, undulations, transforming processes of walking, and total group movements open the doors to archetypal states preparing the work on phylogenetic/animalistic body layers, surreal physical states and structured mass movements. Experimenting with expressive experiences at your own edge will be confronted with learning by observing others. Small evolutions and transformations with clear beginnings and ends will finally create individual sequences that will be interwoven for a group story.
This workshop addresses dancers wanting to expand their habitual expression and questioning their own concept of learning. It invites to take on new challenges in the physical training and in the creative play with imagination.



Georg Blaschke
Georg Blaschke lives in Vienna and works as freelance performer, choreographer and dance lecturer (mainly for contemporary technique and movement research). His activities have brought him to numerous festivals and professional centres for dance and movement programmes throughout Austria and abroad. His engagement focuses on the continuous transformation of the physicality and the presence as a performer which reflect the permanent changes within the field of the contemporary performing arts.

His actual works with titled "Essence of Touch", "Embraceable You", "In Case of Loss" and "Your Dancer" (a Solo for Liz King) are focusing on a somatic approach towards a choreographical understanding and principles of reconstructing the biographical depot of a moving body. His current artistic practice is strongly influenced by the Feldenkrais Method, especially concerning movement research, partnering and reflexions on the presence of the performer.
www.georgblaschke.com