18 steps through (stories of ) dance- WORKSHOP

This workshop exposes the methodology behind the performances included in the 18 steps- Trilogy initiated in 2020, where a single walking phrase forms the foundation for all choreographic material within a performance.

Can you tune down your dancing into a walk? 

What memories does a walk carry? How do you shift weight, and where does dancing begin? Where does your dance start?

In many ways, this workshop invites you to re-investigate your own dancing history. An autobiographical journey as a point of departure. History, after all, is a collection of stories curated through timelines. By tracing your past aesthetic experiences in dance and examining how they have shaped your sense of time and movement, we will engage in an onto-epistemological reflection (what is and how it becomes) on how your dancing is always entangled with the environments you have inhabited.

We will focus on deconstructing the elements that constitute your dancing:
What aesthetics emerge from your movement?
What ideological or theoretical frameworks inform your choices: how you use space, how you relate to time, and where you situate the dance itself?

Do canons and icons exist?  Should we erase them, respect them, deconstruct or re-invent? What role do they play in your dancing (if any at all)?

What is dance, and what is dancing for you? How much choreography is needed to reveal it? Can a walk be enough?

Working individually, in pairs, and in groups, we will compose our 18 steps — and through them, share and learn from each other’s stories of dance. We will also draw scores, versions of timelines, write texts or poems and perhaps even write songs.

This workshop is open for professional dancers from any genre och performing background.