Wednesday, October 24, 2007
First unplanned rehearsal for the Resolution! piece
Today we bagan working. I could see the excitement of people. It is so bizarre start working with new people. I feel afraid. Their smiles and enthusiasm is encouraging. I better stop worrying for once.
Our first task was to think of lonesome. I believe pepole experienced it quite well in this exercise. The space is not very helpful with all of its colours but the people really made an effort with remarkable results. They were all sitting in a corner. There was something about their position. All of us prefered being crooked. As if sad demands you to be little. None moved for a long while. I tried bringing text and suddenly movement came to my body. The voice sort of made me experience deeper and deeper the sensations. I could hear the sensation but could also breath it.
Slowly slowly we started incorporating all text and movement. It became an ecstatic trip, with laughter, cries, tears, solitude... I don't know why I was laughing. Maybe because I was feelind awkward. Maybe because I was so happy that the work is now beginning.
I am worried tha the group got split between trained dancers and rest of performers. Is it because of someone's weaknesses? I guess it has to do with feeling comfortable with each other. For example, I wanted to lift people but was afraid that they might get overwhelmed. Fears, fears, fears... MY fears, not necessarily YOUR fears.
I wanted to do more, but I say that only because I saw that there were already things. My thought though said take it esy Pavlos. You cant do all in one day. Still I now feel we have done A LOT if not almost everything. We are starting to become a group.
Then I assigned a small exercise with hands for a quartet. I guess it was too tough especially because people were not familiar with this kind of working and with score composition,
It was fascinating how people were throwing themselves in the task though. FULLY CONCENTRATED. I wish we had more time. Why is it always that time is running so fast when you create?
Thursday, September 14, 2006
"Rythmic Movements" @ the 20th World Dance Congress
"These pieces [i xEn ErA & ...and Juliet] represent the beginning of my choreographic carreer, but I believe it's already time for me to turn page and go for the main course. With the World Dance Congress, I devour the opportunity to put a final colourful brushtroke on my unrippen yet mature artistic fruits."
Rhytmic Movements” is a piece about pride and rage of all those social, ethnic or national groups suffering from unjust discrimination and suppression. It tries to identify the complexities of human relationships and the consequent fragility in the movement (both in its political and choreutic meaning) from colonialism to liberation.“Rhytmic movements” serves to manifest “the peoples’” internal need to liberate themselves from the subjugation of their respective self-imposed elite primarily through the means of artistic expression of their corporeality, in other words with dance.
The piece represents both the young choreographer’s first steps with an amazingly mature vision on artistic composition and contemporary politics but also his encounter with Iranian artists whose words have been the initiating inspiration of this choreography.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Μαθήματα Ανάλυσης & Ιστορίας Μοντέρνου & Σύγχρονου Χορού
Το μάθημα απευθύνεται σε όσους ενδιαφέρονται να προσεγγίσουν το χορό και τη χορογραφία από μία συγκριτική θεωρητική άποψη και να κατανοήσουν τα διάφορα ρεύματα, την εξέλιξη τους και να αποκτήσουν μία ακαδημαϊκή κριτική άποψη για τη διεθνή και ελληνική σκηνή. Έναυσμα για την έναρξη αυτών των μαθημάτων αποτέλεσε η επιθυμία μου να μοιραστώ με άλλους λάτρεις του χορού μέρος της πλούσιας βιβλιοθήκης μου με πλήθος συγγραμάτων και συλλογή επιστημονικών άρθρων και της πολύ σπάνιας βιντεοθήκης μου (πλέον ξεπερνά τους 100 τίτλους) με χορογραφίες σύγχρονου και μοντέρνου χορού από τις αρχές του 20ου αιώνα μέχρι τις μέρες μας.
Μαθήματα Σύγχρονου Χορού (Fly Low Technique)
Προχωρημένο: Πε 17.00-19.00
Αρχαρίων: Δευ17.00- 19.00
Τα μαθήματα ξεκινούν 3 Οκτωβρίου. Περιορισμένες θέσεις. Περισσότερες πληροφορίες: τηλ 2310 228161, στούντιο Vis Motrix, Αγνώστου Στρατιώτη 20 (έναντι Αγ. Δημητρίου) .
ΠΡΟΣΟΧΗ: Οι εγγραφές επίσημα ξεκινούν 14 Σεπτεμβρίου αλλά το τμήμα έχει ήδη γεμίσει, οπότε βιαστείτε. Σε περίπτωση μεγάλης ζήτησης στην αρχή της πρώτης εβδομάδας εγγραφών τότε θα αυξηθούν τα τμήματα