LOVE

Love. Everybody - hopefully! - has enjoyed it, several or many times, has suffered from unrequited love, lost love ... but has fallen in love again, with excitement and lust. Not greed but love is one of our strongest motivators.

This is a workshop about love. What have science and the humanities found out about love, about its forms, its roots, its objects, its dynamics? This is food for contemplation and discussion. Each day will be dedicated to one aspect of love, sex being one of them.

The emphasis is on the sensual aspects: we will use images, videos, scenes from films, poems and music to refine and expand our awareness of nuances and facets of love and transform them into structured and free improvisations. We will work in groups of 2 - 3 and as a whole grpoup using techniques such as: the Grotowski-method, Contact Improvisation, Ensemble Improvisation a.o. These will facilitate sensibility for our own body, as well as for other bodies and the deepen our awareness of our and other people‘s feelings, which help us to experience our inherent desires.

In Indian Philosophy mortal human beings can become Goddesses or Gods of Love -let's try!



Robert Trappl
Robert Trappl is lecturer of Biocybernetics and Bioinformatics and Professor of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at the Medical University and Lecturer of Cognitive Science at the University of Vienna.

He started performing and dancing at a five-week intensive course with Alan Wynroth, the resident trainer of La MaMa, NY, followed by several years of Contact Improvisation with Willi Dorner, several short workshops in different areas of dance with Jean-Yves Ginoux, Andrew Harwood, Marie Chouinard, Nina Martin, Ko Morobushi and others, and longer, intensive workshops or labs with Steve Paxton, Saburo Teshigawara and Mark Tompkins.

For three years now he has been giving lectures and seminars on “Love: Attempting a multidisciplinary approach” in the European Masterprogram of Cognitive Science, with many students from other curricula also attending.