Workshops 2021

Workshops 2021

Marta Coronado makes a movement in which she shifts her weight onto one front leg in a lunge and stretches one arm vertically upwards while her upper body is bent forwards. In the background is a setting of office buildings with dark windows. The image rights are held by Beniamin Boar

Marta Coronado
Tools for a Thinking Body

© Beniamin Boar
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Week 1, 19.7.–23.7.2021
15:00–17:00
Arsenal C

Tools for a Thinking Body

After working more than a decade with and for the same choreographer I realised that I had to challenge and reinvent myself each time we would be involved in the creation of a new piece. If we visualise the creation of a dance piece as a puzzle – and if as a dancer you would like to be an active piece on the board – you need to be a thinking body that changes, transforms, translates the basic material and is able to surprise herself or himself.

During this week of work we will deal with Space and Time alterations. The first few days we will learn a basic phrase, which will be the vocabulary used to build all the changes. Real time composition throughout improvisational sessions will be proposed to open up ideas of interaction. Thus we will be able to transform the fixed dance material in time and space with different tools provided in form of games.

The last day of work we will summon all the material created and try to make the skeleton of a dance piece to give everyone the chance of performing it to each other and having the sense of continuity this work should have. The final goal of the workshop is to share the base of my own experience as a performer and give different guidelines and suggestions to the participants of when and how to use these principles of transformation and composition.

Marta Coronado
© Beniamin Boar
© Beniamin Boar
© Stanislav Dobák
© Stanislav Dobák
© Stanislav Dobák