Winlab Festival 2011
The Choir Project | 5-9 December 2011, 11am-5pm (to 7pm on Fri 9)
For 20 dancers. Application deadline 21 October 2011

Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion lead a project to create a performance in 5 days, for a choir of 20 dancers. The group will work intensively on a series of scores  for movement, words and music, looking at composition and performance, and asking always how a dance might be made and what it could communicate to somebody watching. The resulting event will be presented on the final day.

This workshop is open to anybody interested and participants will be selected through an application process. Please send a short expression of interest as to why you would like to participate in this project and a short biog to fiona@independentdance.co.uk. Deadline for applications is 21 October.

'There are few performers who can hold an audience captive like this double act… the timing of every note, shrug, laugh and gesture is awesome. Five stars.' The Guardian, London, on Cheap Lecture and The Cow Piece

Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion have attracted an international reputation for a series of duets created since 2002, beginning with ‘Both Sitting Duet’, and followed by ‘The Quiet Dance’, ‘Speaking Dance’, Cheap Lecture’, ‘The Cow Piece’ and ‘Counting To One Hundred’. They have presented these pieces across 28 countries, winning a New York ‘Bessie’ Award in 2004, and being selected for Belgium’s best of ‘Het Theaterfestival’ series in 2009.

How does what we wear affect
how we move and perceive
and what we create and perform?
 
As part of Sally’s current research into Somatic Movement and Costume, this workshop invites participants to wear, move and create in costumes that generate specific body-mind experiences. Costumes act in a similar way to ‘touch’ – becoming ‘portals of perception’. The costumes will not only awaken sensory experiences, heightening our awareness, but it will also fuel our creativity and imagination – bringing participants into the territory of improvisation and performance.
Costumes used in this workshop have been created and designed in collaboration with Sandra Arroniz Lacunza and Carolina Rieckhof.

Read more about Sally’s research into Somatic Movement and Costume here.

Musician Esbjörn Wettermark will perform live music somatically supporting and informing the 'Somatic Costumes'and the improvisations that emerge.