Boris Charmatz
BOCAL 12 to 12 Intensive
© Astrid Bartl
Adv
Choreographers'Venture
, 2004
12:00–00:00
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BOCAL 12 to 12 Intensive
BOCAL, the project of the choreographer Boris Charmatz and the Association EDNA, was initiated in 2003 as a « mobile school » (or rather as a research group drawn to a vision of a different kind of education). This group contains fifteen artists of various backgrounds : dance, design, circus, fine arts, medicine a.o. The participants of BOCAL developed their own teaching methods in various situations and questioned the premise of the teacher and the student, inventing new learning methods.
BOCAL was created during a residency at the « Centre National de la Danse » in Paris. The experience itself began in Vienna July 12, 2003 during four weeks at ImPulsTanz, and moved then on to Brest, Paris, Pantin, Annecy, Lyon, Chambery and Dubrovnik.
To conclude this experience, the group will return to Vienna to offer an Intensive-Workshop freed of the confusing nightmares of traditional education. BOCAL will create a pedagogical marathon following their own image. Fifteeen pseudo-teachers will turn the studio into a bee hive. The only certainty of the day : at midnight the « real » dance will prevail…fiesta for all !
Boris Charmatz