Georg Blaschke
Physical Theatre Training

Physical Theatre Training Experimenting with expressive 'limit-experiences' Warm-up for this training will be marked by elements of Yoga, as well as exercises for breathing and energy, which may also include working with the voice. Our centre will be activated and strenghted, our skin supplied with blood, to easily fit the different body formations. The group will create an energy pool, which will be tapped for expressive lust, mutual trust and transparent presence. We'll play with a variety of walks (e.g. silly walks), surface visualizations in space and on our own skin, as well as with the imagination of landscapes, that allow for individual travel in our body and for improvisation. In this process we'll keep questioning the 'naturalness' of movement, which we may perhaps render nonsensical taking on different bodies. We'll also focus on the technical, muscular and formal principles of expression. Certain ritualized forms of dance and movement, like twisting, ondulating and transformative processes in walking and in the group as collective movement will open access to archetypal states, which prepare for working on phylogenetic-animalistic body layers, surreal body states - perhaps in connection with objects - and structured mass movements. Experimenting with expressive 'limit-experiences' will be confronted with learning through observing the others. To finish up the workshop small-scale evolutions and transformations with a clear-cut beginning and end will eventually allow for the emergence of individual sequences, which can then be interwoven with the stories created in the group. This workshop is addressing especially dancers, who would like to expand their spectrum of habitual expression and invites them to take up new challenges in both body training and the creative play with imagination.