Around sight

Nicole Peisl, who is a member of the Forsythe Company, has developed a distinct bodily practice and research methodology. She has developed this practice in the context of her work as a performer and choreographer.
The aim of this workshop is to explore the way in which this practice can be a source for compositional and improvisational work.
In this Workshop we will, establish an axis of orientation - „the midline“. This is a place to rest in, to depart from and to return to. We will work with curiosity, sensation, and differentiation through reflection, impulses, continuity, coherence, and completion. We will also consider the bases of these phenomena in anatomy.

This reflective body/experience work will provide one part of the workshop. Against this background, we will acknowledge the role of action-taking and situatedness.
We will investigate how we react to new situations and also old situations, how we make decisions and thus create new situations. This will be the setting ("Zusammenhang") through which we can move from the bodily practice into the field of compositional possibilities.
We will work with partners, exploring the value of conversation, as well as other forms of movement and hands on work. We will examine the ways in which observing is no less an active task than performing.



Nicole Peisl
Nicole Peisl, born in Austria, has been working as a freelance-dancer, performer, choreographer and teacher since the mid-nineties.
She is a member of the Forsythe Company. She also was a member of the Ballett Frankfurt (from 2000 to 2004) and has worked as a freelance dancer with various choreographers under which Anouk van Dijk, Joseph Tmim, the Episode Collective and with Daghdha Dance Company in Limerick.

She collaborated with colleagues from the Forsythe Company in the creation of "Hue", which premiered at the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt in 2007. Her work "Vielfalt", which was commissioned by The Forsythe Company for Motion Bank, premiered at Lab Frankfurt in October 2010. She is now at work on a new choreography, "Ueberblick", commissioned by The Forsythe Company, which will premiere in June 2011 at Festspielhaus Hellerau.

Peisl is committed to her teaching practice. She has taught at Rotterdam Dance Academy, the HfMDK in Frankfurt, the University of Limerick, the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversitaet Linz, the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, as well as at the ImPulsTanz Festival.
She has completed a training in Visionary Craniosacral Work a noninvasive hands on bodywork and now studies Somatic Experiencing developed Dr. Peter A. Levine.
Since 2009 she has an ongoing creative, research and teaching collaboration with the author and philosopher Alva Noë.