Georg Blaschke
Physical Theatre Training

Physical Theatre Training Experimenting with expressive experiences at your own edge Part of the warm-up are ritualised elements of movement and directed exercises for breath and energy which can include the voice. The skin will be well supplied with blood and therefor will adapt easily to various positions. Our bone structure and inner organs will be consciously perceived under the influence of gravity and will assist sophisticated mobility. Our personal concepts on centre, space and presence will be questioned and eventually re-defined. The group becomes an energy pool, nourishing expressive pleasure, mutual trust and transparent presence. We will play with walks (silly walks), visualisations of surfaces in the space and on our skin, and imaginary landscapes that enable individual travelling through the body and improvisations. We will keep asking the question if and when movement is “natural” and by accepting the diverse bodies under the influence of physical forces we will eventually find that question absurd. We focus on technical, muscular and formal principles of expression. Certain ritualistic dance and movement forms such as turns, undulations, transforming processes of walking, and total group movements open the doors to archetypal states preparing the work on phylogenetic/animalistic body layers, surreal physical states - possibly connected to objects - and structured mass movements. Experimenting with expressive experiences and personal limits will be opposed with learning by observing others. We will experience and explore the group as a complete system, reorganising itself under physical and spatial conditions. Small evolutions and transformations with clear beginnings and endings will finally create individual sequences that will be interwoven by a group story. This workshop addresses dancers wanting to expand their habitual expression and questioning their own concept of learning. It invites to take on new challenges in the physical training and in the creative play with imagination.