"FreeMotion"

Workshops"Body awareness and performance art"

Themes included in the performance art program

Raising awareness about the momentary state of the body:
its tensions, impulses, involuntary movements, pain, heat, lust, numbness etc.
Raising awareness of the space within the body and outside.
Spontaneous movement.
Awareness of emotions.
Looking at the busy mess of thoughts.
Stillness.
Inviting a risk.
Waiting for a creative impulse.
Recognizing genuine impulses as opposed to constructed ideas.

Writing.
Talking with a peer.
Inclusion of feedback.
Making a plan, with all details.
Walking and forgetting about everything.
Coming back and look at the plan as if it is written by a good friend of yours.
Writing and planning again.
The final draw.

(this part needs to be done very fast)

Making an appointment in time and space.
Preparation.
Creative act.
Giving attention to other creations.
Honest feedback.
Celebration.
Preparing for the Post Performance Dip.

Objectives of each theme

Every creative act starts from the body.

So it is important to establish a good contact with the body. I take lots of time for that. It
can be half of the time of the workshop, whether it's a two day, one week or one month workshop, or an ongoing course.

A beautiful way of contacting the body is via visualization of the space inside the body: objects can be imagined to travel around, colors, smells and sounds can be imagined in all parts of the body.

It works as a powerful preparation for spontaneous movement, or Freemotion as I call it. Inviting the body to let go, let it happen, just keep moving, experiment, repeat, jump out of it, make your own rhythm, dance your own melody. I use also strong music for this part: so called world music and lots of jazz.

By allowing the body to take the lead it will reveal its enormous potential: unthought movements are suddenly possible, energy seems to come from a hidden source instead of from a battery that needs to be loaded every five minutes. A free body is a finely tuned instrument giving precise information about its possibilities, its necessities in time and space, the emotional flows and blocks.

Emotions can be rich if they flow, but painful or disturbing if blocked. There are no buttons to immediately change blocked feelings into flow, but being aware of the emotional state is part of knowing where you stand. No fooling around with hidden agendas. Nor being fooled around.

The same is true for the mental state. Seeing the thoughts for what they are will help taking them not too serious.

Stillness is the central tool for any piece of art. Take lots of time for that.

Then the risk can be invited like a fresh shower. No risk no life.

The impulse will come. Or not.

Writing and talking are great tools for reflection. In that order.

Making a detailed plan includes the logical building capacities.

Then, if everything seems to be clear and fine, go out walk wherever and forget all you were busy with. We need the distance to our actions before they are created. The trivial things happening on the street or in nature helps to recognize the pitfalls of the ego. Humor is the way.

A fresh look.

Then, very fast, writing and planning the final draw. We shouldn't entangle ourselves in endless doubt. Decisiveness is essential to creative action.

A clear appointment concretizes. Preparation too.

Experiencing your own creative action and those of others. What to say.

Honest feedback seems to be an outright revolutionary idea. So used to "positive reactions" (interesting...). As if blurry blindness helps us any further.

Celebration to get normal again.

-back to homepage-