W-05 / From Within
Workshop with Mu-Yi Kuo
In the frame of Winter Tanz 2018/19
In her teaching Mu-Yi Kuo integrates principles from the Feldenkrais Method into improvisation, floor technic and phrase-work. She focuses on a profound understanding of different functions from within, aiming to reveal the body’s hidden capacities. Every day, a specific technical principle is explored together with the participants and translated into one's own body language through playful improvisation and compositional exercises. These newly acquired and discovered abilities of the body can then be established and personalised through individually-developed movement sequences.
Mu-Yi Kuo
Mu-Yi Kuo (Taiwan/D) trained in contemporary, classical and Chinese dance in Taiwan and Germany. Since 1995 she has been working as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. As a dancer, she worked with numerous choreographers including Stephanie Thiersch, Anna Konjetzky, Pina Bausch, Rodolpho Leoni, Henrietta Horn, Yaron Shamir, Mateja Bucar, Michele Anne de Mey and Thierry de Mey. As a creator, for example her debut creation “Cycle C” (2011) was nominated by the Aerowaves European Network as the most outstanding interdisciplinary production of Germany. As a teacher, she has taught in companies and institutions such as Pact Zollverein, Tanzhaus NRWDüsseldorf, Interessengemeinschaft Profitraining Köln, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Mouvoir Dance Company, Akram Khan Company, Cie Toula, Folkwang Tanzstudio, Ben J. Ripe Company and Neuer Tanz Company. Since 2014, Mu-Yi Kuo has been a faculty member of the Folkwang University of the Arts where she teaches dance, movement composition, improvisation and coaches student creations. In addition, Mu-Yi Kuo is a certified Feldenkrais teacher.
Level: Movement experience
In English
Not barrier-free