Thematic Movement Research Lab
Accentuate your uniqueness as a performance maker! Develop originality and out-of-the-box thinking, create your own choreographic voice and personal aesthetic! Foster your creativity, critical thinking and innovation capabilities! Through an experimental and a trans-disciplinary approach, this thematic movement research laboratory is helping you to push yourself out of your comfort zone, transform your imagination and open yourself to new forms, aesthetics and inspirations.
The program is composed of 3 independent thematic labs: "Who is the boss?", "CLIMATA" and "The Sacred Ritual". At the beginning of each lab, through joint analysis of historic and contemporary examples, participants will approach different discourses connected to the topic. Building on these discussions as well as on selected readings, creative exercises, performance scores and improvisation tasks, participants will be guided to explore various approaches, make movement research, elaborate thematic performances, solo and group choreographies. With embracing multiple media, participants will be invited to challenge artistic conventions and traditional canons, propose new forms, aesthetics, alternative, experimental solutions in order to defy norms, undermine tropes, express criticism of structural and ideological concerns.
The program is composed of 3 independent thematic labs: "Who is the boss?", "CLIMATA" and "The Sacred Ritual". At the beginning of each lab, through joint analysis of historic and contemporary examples, participants will approach different discourses connected to the topic. Building on these discussions as well as on selected readings, creative exercises, performance scores and improvisation tasks, participants will be guided to explore various approaches, make movement research, elaborate thematic performances, solo and group choreographies. With embracing multiple media, participants will be invited to challenge artistic conventions and traditional canons, propose new forms, aesthetics, alternative, experimental solutions in order to defy norms, undermine tropes, express criticism of structural and ideological concerns.
During the labs, activities will involve
Performance, dance, narrating and composing through structured-improvisation; thematic movement research; developing scores for solo and group choreographies; discussions, screenings and readings from texts by writers, theorists, artists; creative writing in different form (poetry, manifest, comics, diary, fiction, critics...) making exercises and creative tasks in other medium, searching through storytelling, personal narratives, historical material, archives and divers audiovisual resources.
Participants's benefits
- Accentuate your uniqueness
- Find your own artistic voice and personal aesthetic
- Develop your originality and out-of-the-box thinking
- Foster your creativity, critical approach and innovation capabilities
- Acquire interpersonal communication skills, collaboration and co-creation practices
- Take the path of the non-conform, the “other”, the “not allowed”, the risky, the unfamiliar, the uncanny
- Discover a trans-disciplinary and experimental learning, transmitting and creating approaches
- Learn about performance art and social sciences from both a theoretical and practice oriented perspective
- Get involved in an international group gathering the most creatives, meet new people, make friendships, expand your professional network, collaborate with artists, initiate and engage yourself in new projects
- Experiment with the choreographic, narrative, and sculptural dimensions of costume, prop, and setting
- Play with different materials, objects, images and tools
- Challenge artistic conventions and traditional canons, confront standards, defy mainstream aesthetics, beauty norms
- Liberate yourself from your fears, transgress your boundaries, go beyond your limits and push yourself out of your comfort zone
Participation & Topics
Our "Thematic Movement Research Laboratory" is composed of three labs.
Attendees can register independently for the 1st, 2nd and/or 3rd lab.
Attendees can register independently for the 1st, 2nd and/or 3rd lab.
1. "Who is the boss?"
Dates: 20-21 March 2021
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2. "CLIMATA"
Dates: 27-28 March 2021
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3. "The Sacred Ritual"
Dates: 22-23 May 2021
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