WORKSHOP title: Shifting States: Engaging Physicality and Embodied Response Within Instant Movement Composition
Orr and Sweeney (Marnie Orr and Dr Rachel Sweeney) have been directing site based cross arts workshops across the UK and Australia since 2006. Their distinct movement approach advocates an intercultural distillation of both Butoh and Bodyweather practices, focusing on the articulation of energy, presence and kinaesthetic awareness within instant movement composition.
The workshop is designed to
highlight the role of physical perception in performance practice, providing
tools for recognising and defining shifting perceptual states that
might provoke embodied response.
The workshop will begin with a
somatic interrogation of the body’s anatomic structures, identifying out
relationship to gravity, speed and distance. Maintaining a heightened
sensitivity to one’s individual architecture as to the surrounding space, we
will work with psychophysical response, imagistic metaphor and the transferral
of physical properties, to define strategic shifts of focus and directorial/choreographic
perspectives within improvisational practice. In broadening the language of
these properties and characteristics that engage physicality, the moment of
decision making expands, as does the
opportunity for others to observe
it. By accessing the immediate existing information from the environment,
whether it is people, the performer’s own state or memory, objects, or the
immediate place, the performer’s physicality becomes highly engaged and
articulate.
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