Partnering
“hooking up”

We will discover partnering work through the sharing of weight. Mostly working with a common balance as in difference to taking eachothers weight. We will develop the consciousness of “hooking up” to another body as an extension of our own and dig into the similarity of manipulating another body and manipulating our own body. We will work partly with thematic improvisations and partly set material to finally see how we can combine the two.


Horizontal Fall
a generous abandoning gesture towards space

Oh, slave of gravity. You can not fly.
But by understanding our limits we will find freedom. To use the weight in a movement instead of fighting will give a sensation of weightlessness. The “Horizontal Fall” is a controlled fall that, in difference to the vertical fall, never reaches the ground. Instead of falling to the floor we fall along the floor.
The horizontal fall focuses more on the movement in space than the movement in the body and aims to produce knowledge of the difference between doing movement and making movement happen, a generous abandoning gesture towards space.


Questioning Choreography
creating set material with your body as you move through it

The idea here is to challenge set material against improvisation. Mostly they are presented as eachothers opposite and as if it would have to be the one or the other. There is of course a full span in between. Now I am not really thinking about different scores of improvisation which would be a sort of set material. What I am interested in is the mental and physical approach to the material that a performer would have depending on the label of the work on that scale between improvisation and choreography.

In that sense this is not an improvisation workshop. I would rather describe it as moving through improvisation, challenge it with set material to then be able to return towards set material with a new approach. Technically this also means looking into the initiation of movement, creating set material with your body as you move through it. It also wanders around choreography asking what it is: the created movement, the performed movement or the idea behind the movement? Or a whole set of other questions.





Rasmus Ölme
After his career as a dancer he created the productional unit Refug in 2001 and creates work in between Brussels and Stockholm since then. 2007 he moved back to Sweden and is currently doing a practical artistic PhD at the University College of Dance and Circus in Stockholm.
To read more about Rasmus PhD visit: www.doch.se