© Roberta Sant Anna
Dance improvisation: Body Weather
Location
Danspunt
Dok Noord
Sint-Salvatorstraat 18 001A
9000 GENT
Language & teacher(s) Dutch/English
Location
Danspunt
Dok Noord
Sint-Salvatorstraat 18 001A
9000 GENT
Language & teacher(s) Dutch/English
About Body Weather:
Body Weather is a movement training and performance philosophy developed in the early 1980s by dancer Min Tanaka and his international collective Mai-Juku in Japan, evolving in laboratories worldwide. Body Weather is often mentioned together with Butoh.
Body Weather, Meteorology of the Body, is rooted in the idea that the body and its environment are in a constant dialogue. A continuous mutual influence. A porous process, never fixed, just like the weather. As a dance practice, Body Weather offers a sequence of interrelated perspectives. Mind-Body/Muscles-Bones, Mobilization/Manipulation, Sensitivity/Sensory Training, ImageWork/Performance.
About this workshop:
We will be introduced to some aspects of the broad and rich field of Body Weather. The sessions begin with physical training. Simple movements, accessible to every body. No technique to master, but a joint exploration. Through breathing and partner work, we open the body to perception, resonance, and change.
Imagination is a driving force within Body Weather, and more specifically sensory, physical imagination. We explore different images such as: we let the edges of the body dissolve into space; we feel grass growing from the spine, ants moving across it; we accelerate, slow down, move against time.
What emerges, emerges together — nourished by the body, the space, and the collective imagination of the group.
About the facilitator:
Emilie De Vlam met Body Weather at a young age and spent years learning with various members of the Mai-Juku group (including dancers Frank Van de Ven, Katerina Bataksaki, Christine Quoiraud, Oguri, etc.) and founder Min Tanaka in Europe and Japan. Body Weather became an inherent part of her approach to her work as a performer and facilitator.
WISPER has several course locations at the DOK Noord site. The Danspunt studio's are one of them. Is it your first time here? Please come in time and make sure to read the information on www.wisper.be/doknoord first. Without these guidelines, it's easy to get lost here!
