WRITING DANCES FROM TIME OF THE BODY / Summer workshop of dance and instant composition
This intensive dance practice will focus on deepening the technique of improvisation and the sense for the instant composition. Through physical training we will be sensitizing and broadening the tools that are rooted in the subtlety of our sensual perception, whole body connectivity and kinesthetic presence. The improvisation technique means knowing to immediately involve these bodily pathways and navigate them in service of our artistic language.
This time, tuning into the time will give us the ground for the work with silence, rhythm, and phrase. It will happen following the natural flow of our bodies – that aliveness, which propels our physical inspiration and awakens the poetic drives.
This workshop is an invitation to make a step further towards dance making AND presenting a dance piece created during the workshop itself with a choreographic support. This intention ensues from a clear need to consolidate the study and training of dance in its performative act and encounter with the audience. The work will be organised daily, from Monday-Saturday, into 6 hours of body training, choreographic and compositional proposals leading us to a construction of a dance piece. The piece will be presented at the end of the workshop on Sunday 1. 8. 2021 in Brno.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION: The workshop is proposed for dancers, physical actors, performative artists and persons with a couple of years of dance practice.
TIME: 26. 7. - 1. 8.* 2021
* On Sunday 1. 8. the piece created during the workshop will be presented in Brno. I tis possible to participate at the workshop fully without being involved in the piece, it is necessary to take this decision at the beginning of the week. The transfer from the place of the workshop to the place of the show will be supported, not payed. And so the accommodation in Brno.
PLACE: Trstěnice u Litomyšle (15min from Svitavy), a reconstructed farm with a dance studio in a former barn, on a calm and beautiful location in nature that offers space to relax
FB: Roberta Legros Štěpánková, ORBITA.space
PRICE: 10 000czk/390€,
student: 8 650czk/340€ (comprising class, accommodation, meals, management of the show). If you register till 17.6., the price is 9 000kč/350€.
It is possible to pay in installments.
REGISTRATION: Please send an email with a short motivation and bio to robi.stepankova@gmail.com latest till 10. 7. By registration you will be asked to transfer a downpayment of 3000czk/120€ (returned only if the workshop is canceled due to covid restrictions).
ACCOMMODATION: shared rooms or outside jurts
FOOD: 3xday, also vegetarian/vegan kitchen possible from local products
The workshop will be led by Roberta Legros Štěpánková, she studied dance in Spain and the Netherlands, where she got into the art of instant composition. Since 2017, she has been based in Brno, where she teaches dance and where she works as a choreographer, performer and body-oriented psychotherapist. Her dance lessons range from experiential work with basic physiological principles to compositional and choreographic creation and its poetic and mythical meanings. Roberta guides her students in the practice of presence, in which, according to her, lies the respect to detail and potential to uncover the essence of different dance languages.
Date: 26.07.2021
Time: 10:00
Place: Trstěnice u Litomyšle
City: Brno
