Sense Appeal
Live Workshop
with
Melanie Maar
In the frame of Winter Tanz 2021/22
What types of senses do we use? Which do we share with other beings or plants? How about the sense of presence, or the sense of synchronicity? Melanie uses performative awareness and psycho-sensual experiencing to guide herself and others. This workshop offers you a space to slow down and feel yourself. The tools we use are based on guided meditative movements, touch, sense reflection and conjuring ‘timelessness’. Doing less, even doing nothing as a way to open subtle perception and portals into new visions and activity. Together we perceive and play with the constant dying and making of movements, relations, feelings, forms, compositions, judgements and scenes. Melanie offers a kind of galaxy guide for the self-guided traveller, interested in slowly cruising partially bumpy terrain of wondrous inner/outer artlife realities.
Please note: According to the current status, the workshop will take place live in the studio. Further information will be communicated by mail shortly before the workshop starts.
09.01.2022 18:00 (CET) Online-Filmpräsentation Sky’s Valves with Melanie Maar and Daria Faïn.
Please note: According to the current status, the workshop will take place live in the studio. Further information will be communicated by mail shortly before the workshop starts.
09.01.2022 18:00 (CET) Online-Filmpräsentation Sky’s Valves with Melanie Maar and Daria Faïn.
Melanie Maar
Melanie Maar works with performance experience as a guide in creating projects and in teaching groups and individuals. She lives in New York City and Vienna. Her project Line Death Dance was recently shared in a book, a performance and a film in collaboration with The Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens, Judson Memorial Church, ENTKUNSTUNG and The Austrian Cultural Forum NY. In 2016 she received the Artists Award from the NY Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Collaborative projects with artists from sound, light and dance, as with Christian Schröder, Kenta Nagai, Lindsay Packer, Masters of Ceremony, Laurel Atwell and Anaïs Maviel formed her work. Melanie began studying Ballet at her mother’s dance studio in Vienna, later in NY at the Trisha Brown School and at Night Clubs before deepening her studies in improvisation, Qi Gong, Sexology at the Body Electric School, Somatica and touch practices based on Somatics.The last decades of condensing and teaching at Movement Research NY, Senior Citizen Center Bronx, The New School, Pieter LA, ImpulsTanz etc. informed / process as guide / a study program for performance artists she created in 2017. Melanie learned from and performed for: luciana achugar, Janet Panetta, Anthony Braxton, Daria Faïn, Walter Dundevill, RoseAnne Spradlin and Luis Lara Malvacias. www.melaniemaar.com