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W-03 / As Above So Below – Axis Syllabus in Application (Waiting list)

Workshop with Frey Faust
In the frame of Winter Tanz 2019/20

This workshop is a deeper study of dancing with the criss-crossing arcs in anatomical micro/macro structures and their similarities with the dancing cosmos. Frey Faust admires natural ecosystems, at once the manifest of, if unconscious obeisance to physics and biology and the total lack of gover- nance, which is the inherent balance of intimate interdependence and indifference that, because each strives to be at cause leads to the inextricable implication of each participating element. He thinks that, because we consider and try to predict outcomes and because we are empathetic, humans are overly concerned with control. Intelligent application of control is of course and obviously useful. However, more often the best strategy is to accept, and work with what is there. Although many people reject it or seem to be estranged, we are fruit of and part of nature, which has been field testing all current processes for millions of years.

Frey Faust

Now 61, Frey Faust began performing on the street as a pantomime, dancer-actor in the family troupe at the age of eight. At the age of fourteen, Nita Little, the co-founder of the movement, introduced him to contact improvisation, which he has practiced and taught all his life. He also studied Capoeira, African Dance, fencing, karate, Aikido, jazz, ballet, yoga, percussion, physics and anatomy. He has worked a.o. with Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Stephen Petronio and Donald Byrd. In the 90's Frey began to compile The Axis Syllabus lexicon, which is now available in its fifth edition at www.axissyllabusforum.org.  He also built a written symbolic language for movement notation, evaluation, pathology diagnosis and invention called the Human Movement Alphabet, also available on the Axis Syllabus Forum. He continues to create, perform and teach across the globe to this day! Together with Francesca Pedulla and Baris Mihci, he is building a center for the Axis Syllabus Meshwork in the south of Italy. To find out more about this, look up The Wayfarer's Root: www.laradicedeiviandanti.org.

Level: Movement experience
In English
Not barrier-free