Sense Appeal – Art, Soma & Sensxuality
Workshop
with
Melanie Maar
In the frame of WinterTanz 2023/24
Sense Appeal is like a galaxy guide through desire and dissolve at constant play. This version of Sense Appeal offers exploration of our sensxual selves in relation to somatic awareness, dance and performance. For encountering the unknown we first slow it all down, do less and practice to meet what is with curiosity. In this atmosphere, subtle forms of intimacy can come to play within individual, partner and group exercises around touch, presence, attention, sense-based movement, living boundaries and performative awareness. We build a variety of scenarios that can connect us to our own inner sensxual compass guiding our way. Sense Appeal is for people of all movement capacities and anyone interested in ‘being’ art, in cruising rational and sensual realms together and in naming desires within ourselves in shared space and time.
Accessibility Note
The workshop will be taught in spoken English and is open for people of all movement capacities. There will be durational scored improvisational dancing practices that include physical contact, touching and resting. There will always also be options/adaptations as needed. If needed, a free workshop place for an accompanying assistant will be facilitated for participants with disabilities. Information about our location & studio access in Kreuzberg, which unfortunately are not wheelchair accessible, can be found here. For questions or more information, please contact Zoé Duflot & Elisabeth Leopold at workshop@tanzfabrik-berlin.de.
Melanie Maar
Melanie Maar works with performance experience as a guide in creating projects and in teaching groups and individuals. She lives in New York City and Vienna. Her project Line Death Dance was recently shared in a book, a performance and a film in collaboration with The Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens, Judson Memorial Church, ENTKUNSTUNG and The Austrian Cultural Forum NY. In 2016 she received the Artists Award from the NY Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Collaborative projects with artists from sound, light and dance, as with Christian Schröder, Kenta Nagai, Lindsay Packer, Masters of Ceremony, Laurel Atwell and Anaïs Maviel formed her work. Melanie began studying Ballet at her mother’s dance studio in Vienna, later in NY at the Trisha Brown School and at Night Clubs before deepening her studies in improvisation, Qi Gong, Sexology at the Body Electric School, Somatica and touch practices based on Somatics.The last decades of condensing and teaching at Movement Research NY, Senior Citizen Center Bronx, The New School, Pieter LA, ImpulsTanz etc. informed / process as guide / a study program for performance artists she created in 2017. Melanie learned from and performed for: luciana achugar, Janet Panetta, Anthony Braxton, Daria Faïn, Walter Dundevill, RoseAnne Spradlin and Luis Lara Malvacias. www.melaniemaar.com