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SoSe 19: Crafting Poetic Ambiance: Methods of Designing and Wilfully Inhabiting an Autonomous Imaginary-World

Navtej Johar

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Der Kurs ist ausschließlich für FU-Studierende des Studiengangs MA Tanzwissenschaft bestimmt und richtet sich primär an Studierende im 2. Fachsemester.

Hinweis zu den Terminen: Neben den regulären Seminarterminen, die alle pünktlich s.t. (sine tempore) im DanceLab bzw. in der Akademie der Künste (siehe Details) beginnen, finden noch zwei weitere Veranstaltungen in der Akademie der Künste statt:
- 16. April, 19 Uhr: Opening Lecture, Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg (Clubraum)
- 25. Juni, Uhrzeit (TBA): Final Presentation Akademie der Künste am Pariser Platz (Blackbox)

“Desire is common to all human beings and the appeasement of it pleases.”

The theory component will provide a working-understanding of bhava-rasa. If bhava is like a flower then rasa is its fragrance. The course will focus on how a poetic ambiance may be first mentally constructed, calibrated and designed; and then physically inhabited, experienced and expressed through gesture, sound, word, stance and posture with the aim to evoke a calculated and desirable affect in the viewer. Readings pertaining to the modern usage of this aesthetic theory will be discussed.

The practice will progressively comprise of the following: a yoga-inspired somatic practice designed to “drop-guard” so as to make the student somatically susceptible and open to suggestion; deciding the primary intent of the performance-in-the-making; deciding upon an ambiance that may poetically correspond to, contain and support this intent; facilitating ponderous envisioning, rather designing of this ambience by populating it with objects, images, word-images, textures, sounds of correspondence; bestowing autonomy to these imagined objects to exert, play upon and elicit responses from the body-encased interiority of the performer; evoking licence in the self to bodily inhabit this mind-space and wilfully subjecting it to the power, influence or inherent drama of this imagined space; mapping the body and locating prompts within it that are specially sensitive or responsive to the influences of this imagined exterior; creating parameters to improvise within this imagined, reciprocal space to generate a repertoire of sounds, words, gestures, stances, positions in response to this space; observing, reviewing and scripting of these responses in engagement within this imagined environ; and finally the formalisation, memorisation, and fine-tuning of these reciprocal engagements.

The primary focus will be on crafting the will of the performer to bestow power and autonomy upon an imagined world of objects, images and textures; so that the performative act then becomes nothing more than a willing subjection and a spontaneous response to this carefully crafted imaginary-world that has a life, force and orbit of its own.

The course will culminate with a showcasing of a series of solos, duets, ensemble works that will incorporate voice, movement, design, image. It will also include comments, asides and soliloquises which would be scripted as responses to the processes we will undertake during the course.
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19 Class schedule

Regular appointments

Mon, 09:00 - 14:00 DanceLab (15.04.-18.04.) 4 Class schedule

Mon, 2019-04-15 09:00 - 14:00

DanceLab (15.04.-18.04.)

Lecturers:
Navtej Johar