Flying Beyond Four Walls
Virtual Workshop Series
with
Eva Karczag
In the frame of Virtual Workshop Series
In this time of living in confined spaces, the freedom we experience as dancers can feel constrained by the walls that surround us. It’s almost as if our skin and our minds begin to hold us more tightly. This brings up the question of how to thrive in a smaller than usual physical world. Yet this constraint can provide us with the opportunity to investigate, in depth and detail, the infinite possibilities of movement inherent in us at all times.
In the course of this Virtual Workshop Series we will begin by searching beneath layers of stillness to observe the tiniest movements we can sense most clearly when we pause to listen. We will take time, lingering within the experience of this internal and foundational movement. From this inner space we will move to outer context. As we explore our personal environments and engage anew with the architecture and objects that surround us, we will generate novel movement maps and fresh histories in our lived spaces to discover inspiration that lies beyond the known. The precision, articulateness and idiosyncratic details of our inner moving will color our dancing as it becomes easy, expansive and liberated.
In the course of this Virtual Workshop Series we will begin by searching beneath layers of stillness to observe the tiniest movements we can sense most clearly when we pause to listen. We will take time, lingering within the experience of this internal and foundational movement. From this inner space we will move to outer context. As we explore our personal environments and engage anew with the architecture and objects that surround us, we will generate novel movement maps and fresh histories in our lived spaces to discover inspiration that lies beyond the known. The precision, articulateness and idiosyncratic details of our inner moving will color our dancing as it becomes easy, expansive and liberated.
Eva Karczag
Eva Karczag is an independent dance artist. Since the early 1970s, practices, teaches, and advocates for explorative methods of dance making, she currently performs solo and collaborative work. Danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1979–85. Her teaching experience spans the range of major colleges, studios and organizations throughout the U.S., Europe and Australia, to private practice and individual mentoring. A certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, she holds an MFA (Dance Research Fellow) from Bennington College, VT. Recent performing includes dancing in Stephanie Skura’s Surreptitious Preparations for an Impossible Total Act (NY and Seattle); Elena Demyanenko and Erika Mijlin’s Echo Archive (EMPAC, Troy, NY); Elsewhere, a duet with Daniele Albanese (Milan, Parma, Berlin); and Promenade, a series of improvised durational performance/installations with visual artist Chris Crickmay and composer Sylvia Hallett (most recently at the Improspekcije Festival, Zagreb, Croatia). Her work is informed by improvisation and by Western and Eastern mindful body practices which engender trust in the body's innate capacity for ease, efficiency and integrated openness. The New York post-modern dance movement of the 1960's and 70’s has given her current dance practice a foundation of respect for the moving body, and a passion for creative process and experimentation.
Level: Open
In English
4x Fridays
In English
4x Fridays
Total costs: 100€ (85€*)
* Early Bird Price until 14.10.2021
Zeitzone: CET
* Early Bird Price until 14.10.2021
Zeitzone: CET