Improvisation for Contacters

We get lost in the dance, and we like it. Getting lost can be a break from planning, controlling, wanting. It can be a break from the responsibility of being oneself. So we stop planning ahead and become available. Available for what, though? Someone or something is sensing and responding there, where I become an available observer. It’s not exactly me, and yet I'm not excluded either.

What are those processes, observed in action? How can I, while also being the medium, still notice them from a(nother) perspective? Once I do notice them, can I perhaps redirect them? Sustain them? Take them as far as they will go? By naming them in a verbal exchange, how can I share them with my partners? How can this dialogue remain “a proposition in the form of a question, to be answered daily”, which lies at the root of the original proposition of Contact Improvisation?

Dates
08.05., 09:00–15:00, Dschungel Wien
09.05., 10:00–17:00, TQW Studios
10.05., 09:00–15:00, Dschungel Wien

Call for participation: Due to limited spaces, we ask people who want to participate in the workshop to send a short email with 2 to 3 sentences to l.moravec@akbild.ac.at, briefly outlining their motivations.

The workshop is part of the series Bodily Intelligence: Decentralizing the Performance of “Intelligence” in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.