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S-06 / Dancing with the Trouble

Workshop with Magdalena Meindl
In the frame of Open Spaces/Sommer Tanz 2019

Staying with the trouble requires learning to be truly present [...] as mortal critters entwined in myriad unfinished configurations of places, times, matters, meanings.
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble. Making kin in the Chthulucene.

In this workshop, we want to access improvisation as an instrument to navigate within the opaque mess of a »thick presence«: our individual constitutions and histories, the specific group of people we share those hours of dancing with, space, floor, air and the complex realities of the world surrounding us are all part of our dance. Through exercises that derive from breathing, meditating and movement activation practices, we will awaken our senses and arrive at an embodied and integrated way of moving, seeing and sharing. Improvising together and in front of each other, as well as watching each other improvise will help us to build trust and fall deeper into our dance. The explorations of inner and outer realities through improvisation will be accompanied by a collective reading of short pieces of theoretical and poetic texts that will sharpen our awareness towards our relationships with the (human and non-human) world.

Thu 11.7.- Sun 14.7. 20:30  Performance with Suddenly »Esprit«.

Magdalena Meindl

Magdalena Meindl (AT/DE) is a dance maker and Craniosacral practitioner. She studied in the BA Dance, Context, Choreography at the HZT Berlin and previously Theater Studies, Romance Studies and Fine Arts in Vienna. In 2017 she co-founded the collective Suddenly, in 2022 she initiated the Ensemble in collaboration with Tanzfabrik Berlin, a loose group of 13 multi-professional dancers of different ages. Furthermore, her work manifests itself in collaborations with a large number of colleagues (including Katerina Delakoura, Lea Martini, Camille Chapon and the Plant Babes), in solo performances as well as in workshops and other mediation/exchange formats in venues such as Tanzfabrik, Uferstudios, Ada Studio, Haus der Statistik and Somatische Akademie Berlin, Theater Bremen, Tanzquartier Wien, Lentos Kunstmuseum and Tanzfabrik RedSapata Linz or Arts Printing House Vilnius.
https://magdalenameindlsite.wordpress.com

Level: Movement experience
In English + German