Body Weather - Body/Landscape
Intensive 7-day workshop in the Lake District in North West England. This is an area of great natural and poetic beauty that was designated a National Park in 1951. The Lakes were shaped by periods of glaciation giving the area its diverse landscape of high rocky fells, lower open moorlands and diverse woodland.
The workshop will be based in the small village of Bassenthwaite, adjacent to Bassenthwaite Lake.
Body Weather - Body/Landscape : The basic training and point of departure for this workshop, Body Weather is a comprehensive training and performance practice that investigates the intersections of bodies and their environments. Bodies are not conceived as fixed entities, but just like the weather, constantly changing through an infinite and complex system of processes occurring in- and outside of these bodies. Taking Body Weather into the landscape, the aim is to explore and develop consciousness of the body itself being an ever evolving landscape within a greater surrounding landscape.
Programme will include *MB -(mind/body, muscles/bones) dance training *practice of and reflection on physical and mental training *walking and wandering, silent walk, pilgrimage and nocturnal journeys *various modes of experiencing body, movement and landscape *investigating divergent senses of space and time *peripatetic records, drawing, writing, immediate contact with surroundings *mental topography of a location, myth, archaic mind and genius loci *Local geology, archaeology and history An integral part of the workshop will be the individual artistic projects that participants are encouraged to formulate and work on for about 2 hours a day. (in the fields architecture, landscape art, dance, performance, photography, sculpture, theatre, visual arts, biology and natural history). The workshop leaders are available to guide and support these processes.
Participants profile: for artists and advanced students working in the fields of performance, dance, landscape art, sculpture, photography, architecture, theatre, visual arts, biology and natural history.
Selection of participants will be based on c.v. and motivation. No previous (dance) training is necessary but the workshop will be physically demanding, therefore a good overall condition is required.
Frank van de Ven is a dancer and choreographer who spend his formative years in Japan working with Min Tanaka and the Maijuku Performance Company.
In 1993 he founded together with Katerina Bakatsaki 'Body Weather Amsterdam', a platform for training and performance. Since 1995 he conducts with Milos Sejn the interdisciplinary Bohemiae Rosa Project, connecting body and landscape with art, geology and architecture. He is a regular guest teacher at the SNDO (school for new dance development) in Amsterdam. Films (video and 16mm): Dancing Plasy Times 8, CI-VIT, LOM & NOUGHTS.
For a flyer and more details of the workshop, please email: [email protected]
For more info on Body Weather Amsterdam see http://bodyweatheramsterdam.blogspot.com
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