Workshops 2023

Workshops 2023

Angélique Willkie and another participant hold a seated duo pose. Their eyes are closed. The image rights are held by Emilia Milewska

Angélique Willkie
No Neutral Canvas: a personal dramaturgy

© Emilia Milewska
Adv
Week 3, 24.7.–28.7.2023
14:40–17:10 / XL
Schmelz 10

The art of performance is a crucial space through which to interrogate notions of identity and agency. In dance, those individualities have often been buried under fantasies of homogenisation or neutrality. The bodies on stage matter! Creative output, resulting from lived, subjective experience, is intimately linked to the body of the performer and their relationships with the outside world. Instead of looking at the body as simple morphology, physical appearance or technical ability, this workshop will facilitate each performer’s articulation of their own personal dramaturgy, and explore the ways in which this dramaturgy both informs and empowers the creative process. Through group discussion, situational and movement exploration, journaling, and somatic practices, the participants will come to experience their relational body as the creative canvas.

Angélique Willkie
© Emilia Milewska
© Emilia Milewska
© Emilia Milewska
© Emilia Milewska