Towards Essence
Katharina Seyferth, Germany
10.00 / Ballet School / Monday – Friday / 25th – 29th June 2012
workshop for performing artists
Leaving all concepts behind this workshop shows ways how to enter and move in your own territory, alone with others. How to discover the body as an entity and a channel of live energy. How to access the essence of your being before all conditionings and differences. We will use elements from the work of the ‘Theater of Sources, first phase’ developed in Poland at the Laboratory Theatre circling around perception and the movement which is rest, as well as the physical training and the voice work from theatrical period of the Laboratory.
The basic elements:
- Activating and channeling energy;
- Loosening Body blocs;
- Tempo – Rhythm;
- Circulating of attention;
- Respiration;
- Vibration of the voice.
The physical work develops:
- Presence;
- Suppleness, lightness;
- Consciousness of space and body;
- Concentration;
- Interior and exterior attention;
- Connecting spontaneity and precision.
The vocal work:
- reinforces the respiratory muscles and softens the diaphragm;
- opens the larynx and the articulations;
- touches different resonators;
- opens the research into the connection breath - voice - movement.
The number of participants is limited to 15. We will work every day for 6 hours in continuity.