Performer-Facilitator Training
Questions
Are we allowed to celebrate in times of crisis? How can the art and power of celebration build a bridge between artistic practice and well-being? What do we need to create healthy ways of celebration and how can our artistic practices be applied and how can celebration become our choreography/dance? How can we use our artistic performance skills to host and facilitate celebrations (participatory and immersive projects) and how can we make the combination of art and celebration a tool for arts-communication and community building?
Introduction
Me-Party: ‘Being moved by what I need’. First, we celebrate ourselves. We start with self-care through our artistic practices, work with the question: ‘Dear body, what do you need right now / What would you like to teach me?’ and let ourselves be moved by it. Like this we invite the states of Being Moved (flow states) and discover how they support our artistic process and well-being. After that we enter the state of Being Moved by the power of celebration and the reconnection to joy through our artistic practices. We will share traditional ways of celebration and invent our own ‘We-Care-Party’. And we dive into the ‘Performer-Facilitator Training’ – sharing ways of using our performance training within participatory and immersive projects, to host spaces in the context of cerebration.
01 Anchor & Flow
In the first step of this workshop, we invite the states of Being Moved (flow states) and discover how they support our creative/artistic process and our human development. What Simon offers is the practice of listening to the intelligence of the body and to be moved by it. We will discover how the body and mind start co-creating and therefore will transform self-doubt, disconnectedness and auto-censorship. Like this it becomes easier to access our creative and emotional expression, with empowerment and the anchor of clear boundaries.
02 ME-Care-Party
In a second step the workshop offers to enter the state of Being Moved by the power of celebration and the reconnection to joy. Find your inner resources, your personal way of celebration (silent-soft or loud and wild), your joy dance/choreography/song and get in touch with yourself so you are ready to meet others. What’s important is, that this practice is about self-care and how to access a way of celebrating that nourishes one's own fire instead of burning out.
03 WE-Care-Party:
‘How can we create collective celebrations that include self-care? How can I end a party fully nourished?’
Once we found our personal party anchor by our way of self-care and me-celebration, we’ll start interacting with each other (you-me celebration) and dive into the collective movement (we-celebration). As an inspiration we will discover and share traditional ways of celebrating (folk-dance balls), learn from each other and create new traditions like a ‘We-Care-Party’.
04 Interaction & co-creation
In the end we will dive into The Art of interaction and co-creation through the ‘Performer-Facilitator Training’. This training is dedicated to exploring how we can use our Choreographer and Performer Toolbox (presence, artistic skills, awareness, ‘virtuosity’) in the context of interaction - holding space or hosting participatory and immersive performances in the context of celebration.
The training comes out of the Folktranceparty Research supported by ImPulsTanz and TQW.
Simon Mayer
