“SENSE & SENSELESSNESS ” – AUTUMN/WINTER/SPRING 2016-2017 TRAINING SERIES WITH RE-UNITED NOW-HERE taught by Sakurako at Château Éphémère (Paris) & SPRING/SUMMER series at Lithuanian Music & Theatre Academy (LMTA) in Vilnius. 

                                                              Description of the workshop 

 

The first workshop/audition November 12-19 is open to all levels just as an intense ws or as a possibility to continue working creating together and performing "Senseless", 1 hour dance-theatre performance to be premiered in Paris in March. 

 

These series of  workshops focuses on the basic element of research and exploration rooted in body-movement based performance art. The central focus of these series: phenomenology of perception, the relation between our senses and the mind, how do we perceive ourselves, the other and the world around us. The series will question what is real? on various levels.

 

The work will investigate our senses as the original cause of the movement, transformation of movement while loosing one's senses, movement within imposed limitations, translation of the emotional state into movement and gesture. 

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This is a week-long intense body/mind/spirit training and research/creation residency based on various dance and movement techniques, including various butoh and other dance approaches as a Re-United Now-Here method, developed and taught by Sakurako.

 

The ws 12-18 with 1 hour break and 5 hours daily training includes:

1. Warming up and strength, flexibility and balance training, based on yoga, Q-kong, Tai-chi & other martial arts, Noguchi taiso, & various dance techniques.

2. Exercises: walk in space different direction and reaction, separation of upper and lower body as well as left and right side, movement initiation from a different body parts/point, body alienation and manipulation techniques.

3. Butoh exercises: basic stances (empty body, zero position, balance off balance, sumo stance, squat, etc.); different types of walking (suriyashi, natural walk, walking on clouds), rolling (like water/oil body, fog, stone)  dropping and melting, organic rising, animal, flower, puppet & master manipulations, skeleton, flock of creatures behavior, common body, working with 4 elements (air, water, fire and earth), practicing various butoh-fu, etc.

4. Other dance and theatre techniques: the practice of instant composition, partnering techniques, contact, synchronized group choreographies and guided improvisation.

5. Feedback: Each improvisation session is followed by the individual feedback to each participant.

6. Massage: Every session is finished with a guided pair massage.

7. Discussion: Q&A session

 

Organisation of the workshop

The participants (max 16 people) who are staying at the chateau during the ws are divided in several groups. There is rotating shifts of cocking and cleaning duties. An optional evening program creates an opportunity for jam sessions and improvisations or films/video screenings/discussions.

 

Daily schedule:

7 – 11 Breakfast

9 – 11 Optional warming up/stretching in the studio

12 – 14 Morning training session

14 – 15 Lunch break

15 – 18 Afternoon training session

18-20 Cooking team is preparing dinner/ others have free time

20-21 Dinner

21-22 Cleaning team cleaning/others have time off

21-23 Optional studio use for jams/impros or video/films screenings

23 - 7 rest/sleeping 

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Teaching/training fee - 100 eur a day (5 hours training) 20 eur per hour. Special prices for students.

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