Photo by Anna Maynard
Free jazz, politics, a forest. What do these things have in common?
A number of players react to one another, depend on each other, coexist and thus co-create in time and space. They act by certain rules, with certain intentions and within certain limitations - and we can be thrilled, touched or moved by the result.
In this workshop, we will tune our senses to observe the poetic interplay of randomness and choice. We will explore a set of tools for composing a dance, as well as perspectives on composition. Ultimately, we examine ways of being together. All participants will be both performing and observing. We’ll create a number of small pieces of art and then reflect on them.
When: Friday, May 31st
Where: Main Studio at 366 Adelaide East
Time: 12:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Investment: $35+HST
About Rudi
Rudi’s moving body was shaped by Capoeira, Contact Improvisation and Basketball. After discovering Contemporary Dance at age 21, the practice quickly became his path, lab, and teacher. He graduated from Tanzfabrik Berlin and later SEAD, Salzburg, and now works internationally as a freelance performer, teacher and musician.
Group improvisation entered his life when studying with Jan Burkhardt in Berlin. The poetry of spontaneously emerging group coordination has remained one of his core interests. With his collective "peripheral vision", Rudi had the chance to thoroughly research and refine tools for Instant Composition, which among others led them to perform in the Finnish National Gallery. Influences range from improvised music and Zen Buddhism to intersectional feminism.