ALISON CURTIS JONES
FROM ARCHIVE TO PRODUCTION:
CONTEMPORISING THE PAST ENVISIONING THE FUTURE
This is an exceptional opportunity to embody Rudolf Laban’s principles and practice through the recreation of Laban's dance theatre works. The workshop is led by Artistic Director of Summit Dance Theatre, Alison Curtis-Jones. Ali is an internationally recognised dance artist, leading exponent of Rudolf Laban’s dance theatre work and specialist in Choreology from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Faculty.
Ali's workshop explores archeo-choreology, cultural contexts, re-creation techniques and choreographic processes used to re-create the works. Ali's work is not a slavish transcription of the past nor is it exhuming relics; it interrogates contemporary practice with current dance artists for today's audiences, creating a new living archive.
Participants will practically investigate and embody Drumstick and Ishtar's Journey into Hades, originally created by Rudolf Laban at Monte Verita in 1913.
Drumstick rebels against the Dalcroze method of music visualisation, freeing movement from the constraints of music to reveal the rhythmic complexity of human movement. Ishtar's Journey into Hades portrays Queen Ishtar and her followers, as she descends into the Underworld.
The workshop will include a contemporary technique class informed by Rudolf Laban principles and choreological perspectives including theories of Choreutics (Space Harmony) and Eukinetics (Dynamics). These skills will be used creatively within an improvisational framework to re-create sections from both Drumstick and Ishtar, with participants gaining an embodied understanding of spatial principles and the significance of dynamic phrasing in movement.
MARIA CONSAGRA
MOVEMENT FOR ACTORS AND PERFORMERS - A POINT OF VIEW
We will start working with Bartenieff Fundamentals then moving through Efforts and the use of the voice, we will come to a Figura, a “Persona”, a simplified character.
Each will find his/her Figura through their own movement.
