Elastic Recoil Potentials

the body's principle support structure is the ubiquitous fascial web that interconnects every bone, muscle and organ through elastic fibres and enveloping tubes and pouches. As this ingeniously complex matrix moves, it stretches and pulls, generating kinetic energy and reducing the need for muscular effort. In this class we study the unique properties of this fundamental locomotion instrument, learn its anatomical composition and work specifically with the energy it produces for movement. Subtle and challenging movement material will be offered as a research basis in both set and improvised formats.



Difficult Things can be Easy
Bewegungsfreiheit und Sicherheit

Schnelle Bewegungen vom Boden weg und wieder zurück, laufen, drehen und springen, mit den Händen abstützen, Gleichgewicht, Ausdehnung, Kraft, Feinheiten und Geschwindigkeit sind Ziele, die sowohl Amateure als auch BerufstänzerInnen gleichermassen anstreben. In diesem Workshop werde ich Tipps geben, wie man in einfachem Wechsel zwischen den Ebenen, Bewegungsfreiheit und Sicherheit erlangt und effizient die Schwerkraft nützt.



The Axis Syllabus - empowerment, respect, freedom of expression

In all human activity, the motion parameters are the same: in other words the joints flex and extend, adduct and abduct and rotate etc. In all situations where we move, breathing well is of paramount importance. Understanding the attributes of our body's structure and a little physics gives immediate access to an expanded range of movement potential. In this class we will practice suggested fundamentals for each of the skeletally defined mobile centres in the body, and carefully apply these notions to more challenging moves.



Frey Faust
The Axis Syllabus
Applied Physics – Functional Anatomy Diagnostic Analysis – Artistic Expression

The Axis Syllabus is a bridge discipline that amalgamates up-to-date, pertinent information from a host of sciences and proposes a teaching and
studying methodology for the transmission of this information.
The Axis Syllabus is foremost concerned with healthy human locomotion, and so draws most heavily from sciences such as biomechanics, physiology, and physics; however, because information transmission has high priority, the AS also draws from sciences such as sociology, psychology, and pedagogy, which together inform an effective and ethical mode for teaching and learning.

After receiving primary discipline and essential experience under the tutelage of his mother from ages 8 to 15, Frey Faust went on to accumulate an eclectic skill-set including contact improvisation, pantomime, capoiera, aikido, percussion, voice and several modalities of dancing. He traveled across the US, and then to Europe to augment his own artistic study and practice through collaborations with choreographers such as Gina Buntz, Donald Byrd, Merce Cunningham, Nita Little, Ohad Naharin, Meredith Monk, Janet Panetta, David Parsons, Randy Warshaw and Stephen Petronio, to name a few.
A two-year stint as artist in residence at the Werkstaat e.V. Düsseldorf (now the Tanz Haus NRW) allowed him to set the foundation for his pedagogical and artistic vision. Since then he has traveled the world, teaching and collaborating with like-minded artists. He is the author of the book and the originator of the Axis Syllabus; a method for teaching movement, through which he aspires to assist his students to deepen their understanding and responsable use of nature's ingenious gift, the human body.

Besides ongoing research and re-writing his book in preparation for a second edition, he continues to find contexts for collaborative art-work, most recently with Mirva Mäkinen in "The Balance Project", Francesca Pedulla and Richard Adossou in "Two Among Us", and "No Compromise" with Anna Claudia Pedone.