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Practice seminar
WiSe 12/13: Choreography and the creative potential of neuro-physiological processes
Thomas Hauert
Comments
Every joint of our body has its range of movement and there are countless combinations possible. The body possesses a great practical knowledge, that goes way beyond what the mind's consciousness is able to process, about its anatomy and its mechanics, their actions and reactions, and their interactions with external forces (gravity, centrifugal- and centripetal force, another body etc.).
Our conscious mind can concentrate only on very few things at one time while our body is able to combine a great amount of information in an ever changing, fluid sense of orientation, that can serve as a sensor for potential movement: physical intuition, creativity that comes into existence by purely physical circumstances, no thought is necessarily formed between the moment of 'inspiration' and the execution of the movement.
While we will practise to multiply and disconnect actions within our own individual body, another focus of the work will be on composing the movement of a group, the attempt to create one single organism out of a group of individual bodies.
The movement of individuals within a group can be connected and united. Like the musicians of an orchestra playing together one piece of music the dancers in a space can create a unity by connecting rather than juxtaposing their movement. Shapes or positions in space can be related and given the visual equivalents of harmony or dissonance (vertical connections on the timeline) and the dancers can also create connections referring to past or future events, like melodies, rhythms and dynamics do in music (horizontal connections on timeline). Also here our instrument, the body, and another often underestimated agent: the group, prove to provide abilities to achieve interconnected, interactive movement structures that our individual, conscious minds could never have conceived of. We'll be tapping into swarm intelligence/collective intelligence, swopping constantly between leading and following or doing both at the same time, taking the responsibility to initiate as well as the responsibility to play your part in the development of other people's proposals or of unconsciously emerging structures, keeping an overview over the group composition while assuming your role within it.
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23 Class schedule
Additional appointments
Tue, 2012-10-23 08:00 - 18:00Regular appointments
Tue, 2012-10-16 18:00 - 22:00
Einführungsveranstaltung
Wed, 2012-10-17 08:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2012-10-24 08:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2012-10-25 08:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2012-10-26 08:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-12-11 08:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2012-12-12 08:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2012-12-13 08:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2012-12-14 08:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-12-18 08:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2012-12-19 08:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2012-12-20 08:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2012-12-21 08:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-01-29 08:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2013-01-30 08:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2013-01-31 08:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2013-02-01 08:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-02-12 08:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2013-02-13 08:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2013-02-14 08:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2013-02-15 08:00 - 18:00