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.


Functional Expressivity

This workshop is adressed especially to dancers and performers who have been taking part at the trainingslab Feldenkrais - Contemporary Technique with Sascha Krausneker & Georg Blaschke but invites also experienced performers who wish to explore and deepen their personal artistical practice considering principles and approaches through somatic methods.
Functional issues will be the starting point of improvisations and will guide us to possible expressive interpretations and esthetical comments in space.

Tasks and questions:
- the shifting of awareness between inside and outside processes
- the somatic approach to movement research and partnering
- the correlation between a non-judging gaze and movement
- the expressive options of body halves and of a functional touch
- the placement of moving tendencies which reveal from a somatic organisation into space as a choreographical/esthetical method
- ritualisation and stillness of movement and the presence of the negative space
- the possibility od self-organising choreographical structures and reflexions on the presence and the observation of presence

During that workshop I wish to share my actual artistical processes and experiences with the group in an atmosphere of creative research.

"ACCOMPLISHMENT: TO MAKE WORKS IN THE FACE OF THE VOID
TO GAIN FORM, IDENTITY, [...]"
Jim Morrison


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

Sascha Krausneker
Sascha Krausneker teaches the Feldenkrais Method since 2002 in various contexts nationally and internationally and conducts a private practice for individual lessons as well as groups in Vienna, Austria. He has a background in dance, theatre and sports and is a regular Feldenkrais guest teacher at the Tanzquartier Vienna, at the Conservatory of Vienna and at ImPulsTanz. Sascha is co-founder of the Feldenkrais Institut Vienna, where he also maintains his private practice.
www.feldenkraisinstitut.at