MARNIE ORR

Sal & i

2011-09-04T10:57:00.000+08:00

Sally and me dancing in the morning. In Melbourne's fabulous Brooklyn Arts Hotel. July

Marnie Orr
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GLOBULES - Sculpture Walk Art Installation

2010-06-18T18:58:00.003+08:00

Globules of blood, warming globes. How will we be in 3010?

Inhabitate multimedia dance performance

2009-12-22T16:07:00.017+08:00

WA talent: Dancer Jess Lewis in Inhabitate dance performance

22-24 JANUARY 2010
BRIDGETOWN WA

Inhabitate Blackwood Dance and Art Installation Programme
during Bridgetown's 2010
STREAM DREAMING DIGITAL MEDIA & ARTS FESTIVAL
http://www.streamdreaming.com.au

Inhabitate Multimedia Dance – main event
Sat 7:30pm
Blackwood River Park

An outdoor multi-media dance performance spectacle along the Blackwood River and under the town bridge. Featuring a talented WA cast & crew of 9 artists, Inhabitate is a cross-cultural exploration combining Australian stories and other collected accounts of water and fire.

The narrative unfolds over several days – prologuing at Friday’s Karafilis Winery opening, concluding during Sunday’s markets engaging with the River Walk sculptures, with the main event on Saturday evening.

Inhabitate Dance – Prologue performance
Fri 22 Jan, from 6pm
Karafilis Winery Opening
A brief dance performance introducing the Inhabitate story.
$30 tickets. Dress: Smart. Food & full evening of music & dance entertainment included.

Inhabitate Dance – Epilogue performance
Sunday, during the markets, from 10am
Blackwood River Park.
Free event.
Come check out the sculpture walk along the river!
A dance performance installation concluding the story.

ARTISTS
Dance: Carly Armstrong (Canberra), Stuart Ashbil (WA), Jess Lewis (WA), Michelle Outram (NSW)
Sound: Kinshin Riders (UK)
Lighting: Simon Wise (NSW)
Video: Mia Holton (S Africa), Justin Morrissey (WA) with dancing by Quindell Orton (WA)
Creative Producer: Marnie Orr (WA)

BACKGROUND of Inhabitate programme
Over January/February and June/July 2009, a total of sixteen local, interstate and overseas media and dance/performance artists collaborated across their disciplines researching the lived body’s relation to place. Led by Marnie Orr, various intensive projects were held at either end of the Yilgarn crator – Australia’s biggest single formation mantle rock (granite), in both the hills of Perth and in local significant sites surrounding Bridgetown. Investigations ranged from sense perception to biodiversity and were held in consultation with local environment groups. The Inhabitate Blackwood programme is the latest presentation of that ongoing research.

http://www.streamdreaming.com.au
http://camerabodyplace.blogspot.com
http://marnieorr.blogspot.com

***MEDIA RELEASE***

Extraordinary talent is often leaving the state, but not for Inhabitate, an outdoor multimedia dance show presented on Bridgetown’s Blackwood River, literally! Next weekend before Australia Day, local producer Marnie Orr brings the cast & crew of 12 to Bridgetown’s Stream Dreaming Digital Media Arts & Film Festival, 22-24 January 2010.

Combining local, national and overseas creative talent, Inhabitate brings together contemporary dance, original and ‘mashup’ electronic sounds, lighting, site-specific installation, video projections, costume, and writing.

As the audience follows the performance along the river's course, the dance develops along and in the water, featuring a boat, oversized balloons and a giant parachute dress. All this with the magnificent backdrop of the 25 metre-high Bridgetown bridge!

Stories and local experiences of fire, water, love and work make up the various themes within the piece.

Tickets available via the Bridgetown Visitor Centre for $15 adults.
Phone 9761 1740

*** ENJOY AN AFTERNOON BY THE BEAUTIFUL BLACKWOOD RIVER AT THE STREAM DREAMING FESTIVAL.
TIM WINTON'S SHORT FILM SCREENS IN THE AFTERNOON SESSION – The Water Was Deep and it Went Forever Down

AND Stone Bros FEATURE FILM FOLLOWS THE DANCE SHOW, starring Luke Carroll. City based Eddie sets off on a road trip to reconnect with his blackfella roots by taking a sacred stone back to his hometown.***

Camera|Body|Place Cross-Artform Onsite Research

2009-06-08T23:04:00.006+08:00

Camera|Body|Place
11-15 July 2009.

Site based research investigating the camera as holding agency in relation to human body in place. The extended company is working with local new and established visual media artists from the Bridgetwon area, south Western Australia.

Click on image to enlarge.

ONSITE PHYSICAL WORKSHOP for artists, July 4-7

2009-05-10T20:18:00.008+08:00

Surface Tensions
Body | Land | Relation

Immersive Physical Workshop
for dance and visual artists

4 - 7 July 2009
Hovea, Perth Hills

Cost: $300 full / $260 conc.
Includes 4xnights basic accom, & food.
More info: http://orrandsweeney.blogspot.com
Contact Marnie — e: dance at filtered dot com / ph: 0412 115 925

MORE INFO:
http://orrandsweeney.blogspot.com

INHABITATION Kalamunda - A 4-hour performance in the bush, Sun 15 Mar, 2pm-6pm, Piesse Brook.

2009-03-02T22:42:00.036+09:00

INHABITATION Kalamunda
......RUNNING AT AN EDGE BETWEEN PERFORMANCE AND LIFE......

A free 4-hour performance in the bush.
15 March 09, 2pm–6pm
Kalamunda National Park - Piesse Brook.
FOLLOW SIGNS FROM HUMMERSTON ROAD, LEFT ONTO SCHIPP ROAD at the bottom of the hill, opposite Aldersyde Road.
COME PREPARED FOR BEING OUTDOORS AND WALKING/SITTING IN THE BUSH.
MEET AT THE WHITE GATE.
NEAREST FACILITIES - 6 mins drive at Jorgensen Park)
MORE INFO: dance@filtered.com.au
Bring a rug.
We will be walking for no more than 15 minutes into the bush from the carpark.

(Image: Performer Caitlin McLoughlin from Marnie Orr’ s most recent outdoor performance series for Bridgetown Film Festival. Taken in Maslin Reserve where the bush was devastated by fire in January. Photo: Marnie Orr.)

‘INHABITATION Kalamunda’ is a contemporary performance in the bush, presented in a stunning ‘biodiversity hotspot’ within Kalamunda National Park (recently re-named Mundy Regional Park). Local professional performers Michelle Outram, Maitland Schnaars, Caitlin McLoughlin and Thomas Kelly are from different backgrounds including dance, physical theatre and live art/performance art and come together for this unique performance under the direction of dance maker Marnie Orr.

Audiences are invited to view and observe from the shade of nearby trees and are free to move around the site. The presentation lasts for four hours so come and go as you please. Bring a rug. We will be walking 15 minutes into the bush.

Unlike street theatre the four performers are not on stage, but are bodies moving in the land negotiating the terrain. In this way, the performance aspires to feature the surrounds, rather than the bodies constantly being the focus. For instance, the image above taken during Marnie Orr’s last presentation in Bridgetown shows performer Caitlin McLoughlin responding to the realities of the fire devastation that this Bridgetown location, Maslin Reserve, underwent.

This new style of performance brings to the forefront people’s relation to their environments, where the place that the performance occurs drives the meaning of the work.

Choreographer Marnie Orr describes her art as live research, where performers work within highly structured improvisation. Marnie has been presenting site-based dance work since 1999, having recently returned to her home town of Perth after four years performing throughout UK and Europe. As part of a 6-week artist residency at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts (CIA) in West Perth, Marnie coached the performers in a style of physical training called Bodyweather which has been developing world-wide since it began in Japan in the late 70’s.

MORE INFO ON MARNIE ORR:
http://orrandsweeney.blogspot.com

Inhabitation Performance at Bridgetown Film Festival

2009-02-17T09:37:00.011+09:00

Performers: Thomas Kelly; Gina Knight; Caitlin McLoughlin; Justin Morrissey; Maitland Schnaars.
On 31 January 40 people from surrounding towns Nannup, Manjimup as well as Bridgetown attended the Saturday night Inhabitation Performance and Film Festival screenings on the beautiful Blackwood River. Over a two hour period performers presented a series of works along the bank and under the bridge.
Composing the performance over three days, I worked the performers into the local sites with the aim of hi-lighting the stunning natural features of the river and the workmanship of the fully jarrah constructed bridge. The commitment and rigour of the performers made the whole experience incredibly fulfilling. And from feedback from audience, an immersing experience to remember.

RIVER ROCKS INHABITATION
photos: Marnie Orr

FINALE: UNDER THE BRIDGE WITH LIGHT INSTALLATION
photos: Kim Perrier

Photographic Inquiry with Quindell Orton (Body), Mia Holton & Justin Morrissey (Video/Stills)

2009-02-17T09:22:00.006+09:00

Stills: Marnie Orr

At dawn on 3 February the four of us worked at Ascot Waters, 2kms up river from Perth city, Western Australia. We worked strongly toward images & footage for projection for Media Jam. After Mia edited the footage, the projections in the Jam were integrated into the CIA architecture. Above are some of the stills.

Movement Lab Events

2009-02-05T00:07:00.004+09:00

1. Media Jam: private showing
2. Virtual Environment
3. Artist Talk & Forum
4. Off-site Durational Performance

Image: Marnie Orr. Body: Thomas Kelly - Participant in the Movement Lab

1. .:: MEDIA JAM::.
Sun 8 Feb
Jam Session Times: 7pm / 8pm / 9pm
Drinks & discussion: 9:40pm

For the past 6 weeks dancer/performance maker Marnie Orr has been in residence at CIA Studios with the Movement Laboratory project. Through a site-based dance inquiry, the Lab has aimed to describe body-place relation by sharing experience across disciplines and cultures. Led by Marnie Orr the Lab has been presented as a facilitated movement research ‘laboratory’ with a group of 13 performers and other individuals from either artistic (visual arts, film, music) or other arts/science-based fields of practice (anthropology, psychology, education).
The Media Jam at CIA brings the Movement People in to play within an audio-visual environment. They are joined by 5 artists who will install their elements into the space’s architecture in parallel with an artistic dialogue with the Movement People inhabiting the studio environments. Audiences are invited to experience the Media Jam for what it is – an experimental space exposing the process of drawing together production elements to enhance the potential for transformative space within a performance setting.
Please note: there is a limited capacity attendance so please nominate which jam session times you wish to attend. Please feel free to book for more than one session (1st RSVP, 1st serve basis).
The Media Jam is open to all CIA members & supporters/friends via required rsvp.

RSVP: thebodyplot@bigpond.com

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3. .:: Virtual Environment::.
This is the ‘real’ virtual environment for Movement Laboratory, kindly hosted by Middlesex University London. View the Lab’s Media Jam digital media & performance event live at
http://breeze.mdx.ac.uk/marnieorr

On Sunday 8th February 2009 between 7 & 9:30pm local time Perth Australia (GMT+9) performers will be performing every hour on the hour for 40 minutes. Interact in this virtual environment by offering FEEDBACK, LIVE DIRECTIVES, POETRY and QUESTIONS that will all be responded to by the performers, audio-visual artists or audience. Interactions can be made through writing, your webcam or other camera, sharing your desktop, uploading files, as well as speaking.

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3. .:: ARTIST TALK & FORUM - MARNIE ORR::.

Fri 13 Feb, 6pm
CIA Hubspace
Join dance/performance maker Marnie Orr for an informal talk and open forum regarding her residency at CIA.
Marnie will be discussing her on & off-site workshop process and live research methodology involving Bodyweather training and site-based practice as well as discussing the impact that other professionals have had presenting to the Lab including anthropologist Justin Beal and environmentalist Giles Glasson.
Drawing directly from the long term inquiry with collaborative partnership ROCKface [Marnie Orr & Rachel Sweeney], the language Marnie works with has evolved from challenging existing dance vocabularies through exchanging dialogue with artists from non-performance disciplines, and scientists.

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4. .:: DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE - THE MOVEMENT LABORATORY::.
Durational Performance, Kalamunda National Park (precise location tbc)
Sun 15 Feb, 12pm – 4pm
Marnie Orr's residency will culminate in a site-based durational performance in the biodiversity hotspot of Kalamunda National Park in Perth’s foothills (newly named Mundy Regional Park).
The performance will be made up of a smaller group of seasoned performers from the Movement Laboratory training. Over an intensive 4-day period (12 – 15 February) the Performance Lab will develop vocabulary to be presented over a durational period of time to the public/invited guests within the capacity of a Self-Sustained Activity, [SSA].
SSA is a concept developed from Marnie’s InVivo-based research following Bodyweather training with Tess de Quincy (1998 - 2001) and Frank van de Ven in 2006 (Bodyweather Amsterdam).
RSVP: thebodyplot@bigpond.com - Directions will be supplied.

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CIA address :
Westone, Prospect Place, 480 Newcastle Street, West Perth.
CIA is situated opposite Holden City Motors. parking in yellow bays out front. entrance via blue door at rear of building

Further info:
http://www.ciastudios.com.au
http://orrandsweeney.blogspot.com

Movement Laboratory, Perth Australia, Jan-Feb 09

2009-01-03T12:01:00.013+09:00

TASK: Blindfold investigation. Rachel Sweeney during Mapping Project, ROCKface, Dartmoor Devon UK, March 07. Photo: Kevin Clifford

Residency
Throughout January/February 2009, dancer/maker/designer Marnie Orr takes up a residency in partnership with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts (CIA Studios) in Newcastle Street, West Perth Australia. Largely presented as a facilitated movement research laboratory with a group of 10, the residency engages in a field/site-based dance mode of inquiry. The laboratory consists of three stages: physical training; performative outcomes; and a performance lab.

Motivation
The residency at CIA Studios forms the final project of a research MA Professional Practice (Site-based Dance) at Middlesex University, London for Marnie Orr (the title in brackets is presently in negotiation with the university board). The motivation for the nature of the project is founded on a philosophy and research practice that perceives the body as an interdependent entity subsisting as part of the ecology of its surrounding environments. The underlying belief is that the longevity of our planet and our social and professional communities will more likely be sustained by engaging in activities that focus on the development of a cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural vernacular around body-place relation. This research draws on more than a decade of experience as a performer, project designer and facilitator.

Working/Research Method
The training period brings together performers with other individuals from either artistic (visual arts, film) or other arts/science-based fields of practice (anthropology, psychology, education, music). The majority of participating people hold a movement /performance background (dance, theatre, Feldenkrais, Body-Mind Centring), with other professionals feeding in within a consultancy role (indigenous consultant, ranger). It is envisaged that bringing in professionals from a wide range of disciplines will inform the dialogue to encompass vocabulary applicable to a much broader scope than performance.

The group of invited performers and non-performers work together within highly defined tasks at the CIA studio. Each session the tasks follow a workout known as an ‘MB’, standing for mind/body, muscle/bone, derived from Bodyweather movement training (see below). The tasks are then taken outdoors to locations including Perth’s inner city spaces and sanctuaries, and the stunning Kalamunda National Park in Perth’s foothills.

Marnie will employ research methods based on generative principles of openness and sustainability for the purpose of creativity and innovation. These methods have been developed over the past three years whilst working in collaboration with Rachel Sweeney as ROCKface performance research duo, based in Dartmoor National Park, Devon UK. The residency will also be directly informed by the cross-cultural work of InVivo Movement Research Collective (London 2007), a group of four artists working across four languages investigating site-based movement to develop common understandings and definitions in the English language describing the relation between body and environment.

Language
The laboratory employs a Bodyweather movement training structure, embracing a philosophical foundation of the walking, working body as it is experienced in place (in country, in terrain). The self-reflexive practice of project leader Marnie Orr will drive a critical engagement into the very nature of interaction and relation, as the lived body experiences it (phenomenology). Drawing directly from the long term inquiry of ROCKface, the language Marnie works with has evolved from challenging existing dance vocabularies through exchanging dialogue with artists from non-performance disciplines, and scientists. Past projects’ contexts and collaborators from other fields of study include deep ecology, education for sustainable development (ESD), physical geography, open-process psychology and psycho-geography (situationists). The language is ground in a cross-disciplinary context.

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH - During a field trip Dartmoor National Park Authority collaborating geographer Willem Montagne explains to Mapping Project participants the geological and historical significance of granite, near an abandoned quarry, Devon UK, ROCKface 2007

Aims
In Movement Laboratory, language-building processes are applied within a physical training structure in order to engage in critical, reflective thinking through embodied experience so as to nurture the creativity and innovation of participants. The project seeks to achieve this by engaging both the individual and the group within an open investigation into existing environments (ecologies) both internal and external to the body, and into the nature of the interaction between those environments (eco-systems).

The project content aims to describe body-place relation through shared experience, across discipline and culture. Furthermore, Movement Laboratory instils sustainable, manageable, and maintenance-based processes, with a goal to develop the Lab as directly feeding in to participants’ other processes within their professional practices. The idea is to feed Marnie Orr’s long term aim of developing a creative approach to practice applicable to a broad range of professions, based on a principle of embodied philosophy.

A specific aim is to disseminate the work of Marnie Orr and that of ROCKface. The project plan includes a web stream for international and interstate based peers.

Philosophy
Bodyweather process is embraced through the working method of the Laboratory. The training and philosophical basis for Bodyweather was developed on a farm in Japan by Min Tanaka and his Mai Juku Dance Company beginning in the 1980’s. Bodyweather identifies the body as a tool for movement, existing in a constant state of change. Like the weather, the body holds its own climates and atmospheres. Embracing both eastern and western philosophical views, the broad-based movement training has historically been applied to performance making. Marnie Orr’s training under senior Bodyweather practitioner Tess de Quincey (1999-2001) based in Sydney forms the foundation for her understanding of Bodyweather as a comprehensive movement training system.

Observation and feedback processes are embedded within the laboratory both internally and with others. This includes peer view & response sessions where people from outside the process are invited to observe. Feedback centres on the nature of the project and its research structures rather than content or individual process. Marnie believes that integral to the success of the research for the purpose of the MA, will be a balance between peer reviews and formalised individual consultations with participants able to provide insider knowledge through first-hand experience.

Transnational Forum
Plans include the transmission of the process live over the world wide web. It is intended that performative outcomes are web streamed, and pre-recorded video, writings, sound and image material is uploaded bi-weekly. Identifying a forum for live transnational peer exchanges are a goal, for the purpose of broadening the dissemination of the work, and identifying how such ephemeral/corporeal-based projects can bring the observer in as participant.

Research Line of Inquiry
The research investigation focuses on the creation of dynamic and transformational space within places and within people. That is, developing space open to constant change, making adaptation more possible, for the purpose of longevity. For this reason Movement Laboratory embraces an ideal of transformational space and transformational beings - or open bodies - by working largely within a reflective practicum scenario to create highly engaged bodies.

MOVEMENT LABORATORY STAGES
Stage 1 - Training Lab
2.5 days/week over 4 weeks, 9 Jan to 10 Feb 2009

Participants experience methods of physical immersion within both city architecture and natural terrain. This immersion will be informed by historical, cultural, social, geological and geographical inquiry opportunities (observation, literature, local consultants brought in to the process).

However the training focuses on physicality: the mapping and navigation of sensory perception and perspective, and the response-ability of the body as it exists within ecological systems. At the core of the process is the development of shared vocabularies of spoken dialogue in parallel with physicality. Over the 6-week Lab period these vocabularies of physicality and speech formulate as a facility available to people as strategies or tools for the navigation of situations, life, space and time.

PHYSICALITY - Moni Hunt, participant at Bodyweather Lab led by Marnie Orr, London 05.

Stage 2 - Performative Outcomes
Performative presentations at Bridgetown Film Festival 30 & 31 Jan 2009
Media Jam at CIA Studios 6 – 8 Feb. Open to audiences 8 Feb
Review – 10 Feb

The tools for navigation will be trialled in a number of performative presentations. Firstly during the Bridgetown Film Festival working closely with site, and secondly a Media Jam at CIA Studios. Media Jam brings the movement people in to play within an audio-visual environment. They are joined by a small number of artists (electronic sound, percussion, installation, light and video people) who will install their elements into the space’s architecture in parallel with an artistic dialogue with the movement people who are inhabiting the studio environments.

An aim is creating transformational spaces (both within bodies and within the studio’s architectural spaces) via an inhabitational process developed through artistic dialogue across the elements. Audiences are invited to experience the Media Jam for what it is – an experimental space exposing the process of drawing together production elements to enhance the potential of transformation within a performance setting. This is the final outcome that concludes the training stages.

Stage 3 – Performance Lab
4-Day intensive – 12-15 Feb
Artist Talk & Sharing – Fri 13 Feb. Open to the public
Durational Performance / SSA- 15 Feb. Open to the public

As the final stage, Performance Lab is made up of a smaller group consisting of the few professional, seasoned performers from the Training Laboratory. Over an intensive 4-day period (12 – 15 February) Performance Lab will develop vocabulary to be presented over a durational period of time to the public/invited guests (between four and six hours on Sunday 15) within the capacity of a Self-Sustained Activity, or SSA. SSA is a concept developed from Marnie’s InVivo-based research following Bodyweather training with Frank van de Ven in 2006 (Bodyweather Amsterdam).

In Performance Lab the SSA replaces a ‘performance’ in the true meaning of the word. The process leading up to the durational SSA will involve a series of Open Body Actions, or OBA’s. OBA is a term describing a research practice process developed by ROCKface in 2006/7. The term replaces ‘improvisational performance’, as Open Body Actions are actions not dependent on the presence of an audience, and by definition is live research (or live research actions) whereby the movement of the active body is in direct and constant relation to its environments.

This elaborate research design is the basis for Marnie’s case for her research Masters title, Site-based Dance, and forms the current pinnacle of the research practice with long term collaborator Rachel Sweeney as ROCKface. As a valid performance-making process the aim of Performance Lab is to further the application of the training at a professional level towards establishing a new compositional blueprint for collaborative dance practice. This blueprint has been trialled on a number of ROCKface projects in UK, and is the first time it has been applied within an Australian context / on Australian soil.

More info:
CIA Studios -
http://www.ciastudios.com
Bodyweather -
http://www.bodyweather.net
Bridgetown Film Fest -
http://www.btownfilms.com/films.php
ROCKface –
http://orrandsweeney.blogspot.com

WEEKLY TRAINING - Bodyweather Lab Nov 08

2008-10-16T14:46:00.007+08:00

WEEKLY TRAINING

Bodyweather Lab

Training for life, improvisation & performance

Cutting edge dance|movement training to navigate body , re-create space

Thursdays 6:30-9pm

Hilton Park Bowling Club Shepherd St, Hilton. Just off Lefroy Rd

Starts 6 Nov 2008 for 5 weeks. Continues Jan.

The training is designed to explore the physical world, both internal & external to the body through tasks and a workout. Artist/dancer/facilitator Marnie Orr will lead the group through the ‘MB’ (Mind/Body Muscle/Bone) followed by Groundwork activities, developing observation/feedback, tools for improvisation and kinaesthetic/sensory mapping.

Bodyweather Lab aims to highly engage body & mind in its own physicality, build group body and verbal articulation grounded in the physical training. The Labs employ creative processes applicable to a range of disciplines & practices due to its broad application in the real world. Open to all levels of movement experience. Some fitness required. Age 16+.

Cost: $18 / $15 per session. Or $80/$70 all 5 sessions

Enquire & Book: Marnie Orr - 0412 115 925 / thebodyplot@bigpond.com

WEEKEND INTENSIVE Nav-Lab Nov 08

2008-10-16T13:21:00.009+08:00

Immersa Project presents
Nav-Lab Weekend Intensive
Site-Based Improvisation

Sat 22 & Sun 23 November 2008
10am - 5pm
Meet at Hilton Park Bowling Club Shepherd St, Hilton.
Both days we drive to Kalamunda National Park after a morning studio session.

Nav-Lab: Inhabitation-based tasks immersing the body in the hills of Perth following a morning workout in Hilton. During a walk through Kalamunda National Park’s stunning bushland, group & individual activities explore approaches to country through ‘navigational tools’ such as transparency, in/visibility, impersonality and non/decision-making.

More info on Bodyweather: http://www.bodyweather.net/mainframe1.html
Cost: $35/day ($30conc)
Lifts are offered to the hills. Book early!
Enquire & Book: Marnie Orr - 0412 115 925 / thebodyplot@bigpond.com

Nav-Lab: Bodyweather Movement Training & Research

2008-05-31T23:53:00.006+08:00

4-day intensive 17-20 June 2008

Plus every Tuesday in June - 3, 10, 17 & 24.
9:45am – 5pm.

King Street Arts Centre (357-365 Murray Street, Perth).
$28/day ($25/conc) for drop-in.
Or $160 for full 7 day course. Age 16+.
Bookings & Enquiries: Marnie Orr - 0412 115 925 / thebodyplot@bigpond.com
No movement experience necessary.

This workshop is designed as a creative setting for all people that use creativity in their practice, or whom are interested in body-place relation, site-specific or field-based practices, or the relation of dance/creative movement to ecology. Each day begins with a morning physical workout in the studio (called an MB - which stands for Mind/Body, Muscle, Bone). In the afternoon people are invited to work within defined tasks to pursue their own line of enquiry (through any medium) or work in collaboration. Nav-Lab is particularly receptive to developing new relations to media triangulating body-camera-country.

Nav-Lab accesses Bodyweather methods and philosophy in an invigorating process moving from morning studio training to an afternoon of outdoor solo and group activities within the stunning valleys and hills of Kalamunda National Park and other places along Perth's Darling Scarp.

Nav-Lab is a cross-disciplinary investigation into the creation of highly engaged bodies through immersive site-specific movement-based processes inhabiting environments both internal and external to the body.
Nav-Lab aims to build shared sensibilities by charting our senses through:
transparency | in/visibility | impersonality | expansion/diminish | dispersion/contraction | decision/non-decision | synaesthesia | cartography.