Axis Syllabus Workshop Cycle in Basel 2020
The Axis Syllabus (axissyllabus.org) as a constantly evolving reference system, or lexicon for the organization and cross-correlation of empirical and scientific findings from the study of human movement. The information is often transmitted through dance, though it is relevant to anyone in a body. It leads the workshop participants through anatomical details, embraces physics in its practical applications and allows us to research, to analyse and explore our movement potential.
The cycle is a whole which means that the people who participate in 4 or 5 of the weekends belong to the core-group that will have a priority in registration.
Dates:
February 21/22/23 Diana Thielen, Resilience in adaptation*
April 24/25/26 Antoine Ragot „Your inner fish“
May 22/23/24 Baris Mihci, Movement mutations
October 9/10/11 Frey Faust Triangulation, natural genius
November 13/14/15 Francesca Pedulla, Enquiring under the forms
Location:
TanzRaum im Warteck, Burgweg 15, 4058 Basel
Schedule
Friday 18.00 – 20.30 / Sa & Su 10.00 – 16.00 (with one hour lunch break)
Price:
Regular workshop price in swiss francs 220
Early Bird – until one month before 200
Core-group price – if 4 or 5 of the workshops are booked 180
Optional reduction for people not living in switzerland -20
Housing:
To make it possible for people arriving from further away to participate, there’s the possibility to organise housing for 10-20 per night for a limited number or people.
Registration and Questions to: Livia Kern, livia.kern@hotmail.com
*Resilience in adaptation
The „tensegrity principle” (tension and integrity), originally developed in architecture, has many applications in contemporary dance and contact improvisation and other diverse movement disciplines. Our body can be understood and experienced as a tensegrity structure. The fascial network provides our body with an autonomous and continuous tone. Forces acting upon the body are distributed throughout the whole system, which always reacts as a connected whole.
We will explore the nature of the structures that manifest the tensegrity principle in the human body in solo and duet exercises. We will seek stability and permeability and look for ways of applying these qualities in our own movement exploration. There will be space to explore and experiment together, so that these concepts will not remain purely intellectual but manifest in physical experience in dance.
For everyone who is keeps reflecting their own movement-or teaching/healing practice. Yoga teachers and practitioners, dance artists, manual therapists or body workers.
*Diana Thielen
I am a dance artist/performer/blogger(movementactivism.com) and teacher. I teach Axis Syllabus, as well as practices in dance, performance, body politics and yoga. I graduated at SEAD / Salzburg (and am currently a student of Gender Studies / Educational Studies (BA) in Berlin. My work includes interdisciplinary perspectives that relate to my interest in queer theory, intersectional feminism, and postcolonial studies, as well as pondering and exploring private realities as a queer woman. As a teacher, I see my strength in my genuine wish to support each individual’s journey. Their experiences, as well as, their curiosities, doubts, vulnerabilities and lust to move and study are invited, to create a safe learning atmosphere.
www.dianathielen.com
Kontakt: livia.kern@hotmail.com
Raum: werkraumwarteckpp.ch/projekte/tanzraum