Artificial floors
About the Workshop
Integrating principles from hands-on somatic practices and translating them into space, we will make use of breath, voice and touch to open up different possibilities of how we relate to the ground, how we orientate ourselves in space, how we attend to each other. Through translations from the horizontal to the vertical and vice versa and explorations of gravity, volume and scale we might encounter a sensation of blur in our dancing. With hands and metaphors of hands we can build different containers that we can visit with breath, voice and movement. Various ways of messing with perception, language and hierarchies within and around the body become portals to question notions of support, resources and safety, suggesting a playful approach to risk and trust. Where can we „ground“ ourselves? Which elements can offer us support and orientation? Do we meet through or on the floor and how does that change our experience? I’m curious what can we learn from disorientation and artificiality. Let’s consider time as a factor inviting constant change and encouraging adaptability. Drawing from my practice as a Rolfer/body worker, there will be exercises and improvisational frames addressing different ways to work with touch, voice, gaze and movement. How to put these experiences in space onto the surface of a paper? I will also share some approaches to work with writing in relation to movement, blurring the line between reflection and creation.
Date & time: 2nd of November, from 1pm until 5pm.
Venue: 4fT-Tanzplattform Leipzig, Erich-Zeigner-Allee 64 (Haus E) - 04229 Leipzig
Prices: 35-45€ (sliding scale)
Registration: susanne.grau@gmx.de
About Susanne
Susanne Grau works as a dancer, performer and choreographer, currently based in Berlin. She studied Contemporary Dance at University for Music and Dance in Cologne and the MA program „Performing arts practice and visual culture“ in Madrid. In 2013 she was an intern at Movement Research New York. Since 2012 she regularly collaborated with Cologne based MichaelDouglas Kollektiv. In 2015 she received the danceWEB scholarship at ImpulsTanz Festival Vienna. As a performer she worked with artists like Fabrice Mazliah, Alexandra Pirici, Davis Freeman, Juana del Mar Jimenez Infante, Özlem Alkis, Rocio Marano, Shai Faran, Choy Ka Fai, Prue Lang, May Zarhy, Reut Shemesh. Across projects she explores relationships of language, physicality, imagination and rhythm. She is interested in multiple points of attention, the simultaneity of invisible and visible activities and what those splits of attention are inviting to appear. Since October 2023 she is a certified practicioner of Rolfing® - structural integration - a hands-on myofascial body work and movement studies. She likes to see performative practice as a facilitation of encounters, as a kind of seance and psychomagical field of experimentation. At the moment Susanne is enrolled in the MA program "New Performative Practices" at Stockholm University of the Arts.