Physical Theatre Training
Experimenting with expressive experiences at your own edge

Part of the warm-up are ritualised elements of movement and directed exercises for breath and energy which can include the voice. The skin will be well supplied with blood and therefor will adapt easily to various positions. Our bone structure and inner organs will be consciously perceived under the influence of gravity and will assist sophisticated mobility. Our personal concepts on centre, space and presence will be questioned and eventually re-defined. The group becomes an energy pool, nourishing expressive pleasure, mutual trust and transparent presence.

We will play with walks (silly walks), visualisations of surfaces in the space and on our skin, and imaginary landscapes that enable individual travelling through 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 eventually find that question 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 - possibly connected to objects - and structured mass movements. Experimenting with expressive experiences and personal limits will be opposed with learning by observing others. We will experience and explore the group as a complete system, reorganising itself under physical and spatial conditions. Small evolutions and transformations with clear beginnings and endings will finally create individual sequences that will be interwoven by 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.


Trainings-Lab Feldenkrais | Contemporary

The daily training will start with an ATM (Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement - lesson) that will take around 60 min. Each day will cover a different functional theme (e.g. extension, rotation, flexion etc.) that will bring us to more differentiation of the movement apparatus as well as our perception.
With the Feldenkrais Method we can learn to move with ease and to enlarge our comfortable movement range. The Method is a unique and revolutionary approach to the understanding of human learning, movement and function. Its focus is on the practical development of one's own individual potential and ability.
Possible effects of an ATM can be: improved balance and posture, easier breathing, clarified relationship of bones an muscles in relation to gravity and the floor, more differentiated self organisation, increased presence in our body and in space.

In the second part of the training we will explore possible connections between the functional themes of the Feldenkrais lesson and a contemporary dance technique. We will approach that process partly through an improvised movement research and partly through more structured and guided phrases.
We will focus mainly on a playful discovery of new and more differentiated qualities of movements that may emerge from an advanced inside awareness to enrich the dance vocabulary. A possible goal may be to question or re-define usual patterns and standards like rolling, spiraling, curving and spinning as well as the extension and dynamics of movement.
Furthermore we may experiment with a variety of possibilities to relate the method to personal concepts of centre, gravity and release-based movements or even Yoga-postures.
On a meta-level we will open up the space for discussion and reflection about our presence and performing attitude within the daily training.




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