Invitation to Walk – A collective choreography performance
Open Studio
by
Katja Münker
Regardless in which context we walk the complex events are firmly defined and completely open at the same moment. It requires planning, adaptation and improvisation to cope. The live occurring composition of paces, traces, places and other bodies, of action and stillness is unique and always specific. From the individual it constantly requires decision-making if and how to lead or to follow. In this performance sounds, signs, gestures and language are inviting and alluring the audience to walk or to stop at any moment, to support or leave images, pattern or unison. Therefore a space occurs for the joy of aesthetic moments and the reflection of collectivity.
Katja Münker
Katja Münker is a choreographer/performer, artistic researcher, Feldenkrais practitioner, mountain hiking guide & walking artist in Berlin. She is professionally trained in physiotherapy and Feldenkrais Method, contemporary dance studies, (contact-) improvisation and instant composition. She has worked as educational director of somatic training-programs such as Environmental Somatics Training and the somatic dance and performance training EMERGE at Somatic Academy Berlin. Her artistic works and collaborative performance projects have included performative walks, somatic and artistic research, conference contributions and publications on the interconnectedness of choreographic and somatic practices, as well as on walking as an artistic practice, and embodied understanding and agency. She conducts regular teaching activities, including at UdK Berlin, HZT Berlin and HafenCityUniversität Hamburg. She has collaborated on artistic research and projects with partners including Alex Arteaga, AREAL_artistic research lab Berlin, Gabriele Brandstetter, Amos Hetz, Ingo Reulecke and Martin Nachbar, and co-curated the Take Us for a Walk symposium (2014) & BODY IQ Festival (2015-2017).
Admission free