Workshop with Chan Sze-Wei and Daniel Mang
Saturday and Sunday 11 & 12 February 2017
Dance Nucleus, Singapore
Our bodies are physical, but also social constructions. They carry relationships, norms, values, habits and questions. We offer a space where we can speak about bodies, be and move in our bodies, and start thinking about the politics of bodies.
We will use contact improvisation and somatic movement practices, bodywork and verbal exchanges to explore issues of identity and belonging, body image, beauty and objectification, privilege and power. We will work with our relation to gravity and the physical contact between movers. We will learn about modulating tone, tuning our reflexes, waking up our sense of balance and sharing weight. We will explore touch and movement as relational practices: bonding and bounding, consent and collaboration, safer spaces and negotiation will be some of our themes.
We will ask questions about the axes of oppression and privilege that traverse us and make us what we are. We hope to discover ways of undoing, unlearning, some of the internalised social norms, habits and ways of being that structure our physicality and affective life. We look forward to conversations about how the body is an important channel for different threads of activism.
All levels of experience and all kinds of bodies are welcome.
Schedule
Sat 11 February 10am-5pm
Sun 12 February 10am-5pm
Venue
Dance Nucleus
Goodman Arts Centre
90 Goodman Road
Block M #02-53
Singapore 439053
Fee
Via Singapore bank transfer or Paypal
2-day workshop fee:
$120 (full time income)
$90 (student/artist)
This arrangement can only work if each contributes according to their resources. If the cost is a barrier, please write to us. No one turned away for lack of funds.
About us:
Daniel
Contact improvisation has been my primary movement practice since 1986. I also do aikido and am strongly influenced by the Feldenkrais method, Body Mind Centering and ideokinesis. I have been teaching contact improvisation since 1990 - mostly in Europe, but also in South East Asia and Australia. My pedagogy is informed by my background as a professional bodyworker, my studies in physiotherapy and osteopathy, my experience with communication tools such as co-counselling, and by my politics. I see my interest in radical social theory and my love of contact improvisation as two aspects of the same desire. I am based in Sweden.
Sze
Sze first started sharing weight when she was three, with all sorts of furniture. Today she is an improviser, creator, performer and contact dancer. She has shown her work and performed with dance and theatre productions in Singapore and internationally. Since 2012 she has facilitated and taught contact improvisation in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Her approaches to movement are influenced by contact improvisation, yoga, martial arts, Body-Mind Centering and the Radical Contact movement. She co-organised the Contact Festival Kuala Lumpur from 2012 to 2014 and currently facilitates the Independent Dance Southeast Asia and Contact Improv Southeast Asia networks.
Contact
Sze [email protected]
FB Event: Body Politics and Contact Improv
Cover image by Christopher Liew.
Saturday and Sunday 11 & 12 February 2017
Dance Nucleus, Singapore
Our bodies are physical, but also social constructions. They carry relationships, norms, values, habits and questions. We offer a space where we can speak about bodies, be and move in our bodies, and start thinking about the politics of bodies.
We will use contact improvisation and somatic movement practices, bodywork and verbal exchanges to explore issues of identity and belonging, body image, beauty and objectification, privilege and power. We will work with our relation to gravity and the physical contact between movers. We will learn about modulating tone, tuning our reflexes, waking up our sense of balance and sharing weight. We will explore touch and movement as relational practices: bonding and bounding, consent and collaboration, safer spaces and negotiation will be some of our themes.
We will ask questions about the axes of oppression and privilege that traverse us and make us what we are. We hope to discover ways of undoing, unlearning, some of the internalised social norms, habits and ways of being that structure our physicality and affective life. We look forward to conversations about how the body is an important channel for different threads of activism.
All levels of experience and all kinds of bodies are welcome.
Schedule
Sat 11 February 10am-5pm
Sun 12 February 10am-5pm
Venue
Dance Nucleus
Goodman Arts Centre
90 Goodman Road
Block M #02-53
Singapore 439053
Fee
Via Singapore bank transfer or Paypal
2-day workshop fee:
$120 (full time income)
$90 (student/artist)
This arrangement can only work if each contributes according to their resources. If the cost is a barrier, please write to us. No one turned away for lack of funds.
About us:
Daniel
Contact improvisation has been my primary movement practice since 1986. I also do aikido and am strongly influenced by the Feldenkrais method, Body Mind Centering and ideokinesis. I have been teaching contact improvisation since 1990 - mostly in Europe, but also in South East Asia and Australia. My pedagogy is informed by my background as a professional bodyworker, my studies in physiotherapy and osteopathy, my experience with communication tools such as co-counselling, and by my politics. I see my interest in radical social theory and my love of contact improvisation as two aspects of the same desire. I am based in Sweden.
Sze
Sze first started sharing weight when she was three, with all sorts of furniture. Today she is an improviser, creator, performer and contact dancer. She has shown her work and performed with dance and theatre productions in Singapore and internationally. Since 2012 she has facilitated and taught contact improvisation in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Her approaches to movement are influenced by contact improvisation, yoga, martial arts, Body-Mind Centering and the Radical Contact movement. She co-organised the Contact Festival Kuala Lumpur from 2012 to 2014 and currently facilitates the Independent Dance Southeast Asia and Contact Improv Southeast Asia networks.
Contact
Sze [email protected]
FB Event: Body Politics and Contact Improv
Cover image by Christopher Liew.
