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Workshop tutors: Zsófia Paczolay (HU), Zsófia Szőke (HU), Patrik Jaritz (AT), Ana Perkovic (HR)

DAY 1     CHECK-IN TO YOUR BODY

17. 07. 2012

Guide: Gesa Piper

Spot: Happi Centre

Letting all the parts of the body walk.
Introduction to the body and its movement in space.

Exercise 1

Find your sit bones and place your feet under them; put your hands on your tailbone. Stars moving down with your head vertebra by vertebra without moving yout tailbone until you feel you can’t go on without moving the tailbone. Then Put one hand on your stomac over the pubic bone and stay like this for a moment. Then start letting your head and arms hang and move down.

Imagine there is a line between your tailbones and your heals. Then connect the invisible line from the heals to the thumb and the little finger of the legs.

Exercise 2

Rocking side to side and front and back. Purpose – to feel the balance of your body and which side is stronger.

  • Sense of movement of the body, how all parts of the body move. Concentration to different body parts. Make one part static to feel the difference.
  • Sense of space. Speed of walking. Abilities of the eyes – gives 180 degrees vision. Abilities of the hearing – gives 360 degrees vision. Feel the people around. Feel the space between the people, feel how you should communicate with space. No rules of movement. Do anything you feel like doing as movement. Flocking. Getting consciously out of the space and then getting back into it wherever/whenever it is needed. Being static with reason.
  • Outside space/inside space;being inside or outside the space. Being outside but still conscious of it. Integration of the space.
  • Being outside of the space and observing it. Being the observer or the observed
  • It’s not only you, it’s the whole group of people;
  • It is enough to understand 30% of what happens, no need for over-concentration
  • All the stuff happen in the mind. Noticing is the action, not the action itself
  • The efficiency of the movement is there if you use less muscle
  • Move more organically
  • Task: observe the movement of the people around

 

DAY 2     CONNECT TO THE EARTH WEDNESDAY

18. 07. 2012

Guide: Judit Kéri

Spot: Suvilahti

Follow the push and full.
Follow the directions: front back left, right, up, down.

  • Regress from how a human moves to how a single cell moves into its natural habitat. Imagine being in water, in fire, in a stone, in air. How would you move then?
  • Use the other person’s support.create construction with the body.
  • Create art from your shadow.
  • Levity – Gravity – we need them both to be able to have balance and to be centered
  • Stay in a circle with the others, touching your palms together. Move. Feel the power surge. Follow the push and pull.
  • Exercise: 2 people creating shapes. 4 people creating shapes. One person gets all the attention. The other pay attention to him and to themselves also.
  • Every experience is like a different fruit – go and taste more from different trees.
  • Guided sensual meditation with Judith
  • Discussion: discipline; remembering what we already know instinctively; the mother womb- the first phase of life. Keep breathing through the movement; regression=liberation

 

DAY 3     CONNECTING THE BODY

19. 07. 2012

Guide: Judit Kéri, Gesa Piper

Spots: Happi youth centre, Suvilahti, Island Blabarsandet

Exersice 1: Cooking
stand up, move down, touch a  texture, stand up, move down, touch a  person, stand up etc.

Exersice 2: Finding the center

  • Humans are in survival mode=> limited perception, the ego comes alive
  • Enneagram
  • Fearing death=> preservation
  • Sathchidananda
  • “Show me who you are, I wanna taste you!”
  • Removing the limitations: changes, different states of awareness, present, represent the Light, the Power, we are here to celebrate, play, enjoy, experience; zoom in and out from micro to macro
  • Meditation, pray, practice
  • The ego is static, the present is Flow
  • Giving up control
  • Problem->question->answer->act

Exersice 2: The Body

  • Space time flow grow expand in out change expression appear structure movement relationships centers (level of the navel, the head, the tail) chakras the spine the tail the head the 6 limbs
  • Radiate from the navel, flexion, extension, the 3-dimensional self-> my bubble, my kinesphere
  • The 4 bodies: the physical, the mental, the spiritual, the emotional - > constantly connecting and communicating
  • Emptiness and fullness
  • Contact dancing
  • Transparency
  • “Do you believe that what you breathe is air?” Morpheus, the matrix

 

DAY 4     REFLECTION

20.08.2012. FRIDAY

Guide: Zsofia Paczolay, Zsofia Szőke

Spot: Happi Centre

Building a dialogue among the participants about their experience and the theory of somaaesthetics.
Watching and analyzing the movie Pina (2011) by Wim Wenders, focusing on the relation of architectural space and the body.

 

DAY 5     PHANTASY DEVELOPMENT EXERCISES

21.08.2012. SATURDAY

Guide: Zsofia Paczolay, Zsofia Szőke,Patrick Jaritz

Spot: Happi Centre, Suvilahti

Meditation with breathing as a morning exercise, in the afternoon continuing  with playful avant-garde educational methods by Miklós Erdély’s group INDIGO while discovering different spots of Suvilahti.

 

DAY 6     STUDIO WORK

23.08.2012.  MONDAY

Guide: Gesa Piper

Spot: Theatre Academy - TeaK

  • Sight. Look at your nose. Then extend your finger and look at it. Then look beyond your finger into the space.
  • Leaning forward and back.
  • Leaning in circle
  • Meridian stretch
  • Follow the two directions, they have to work together to have balance
  • Use the opposite direction to counterbalance
  • Think about the string pulling up and down
  • The 6 directions of the body: head, two hands, two legs, tailbone

 

DAY 7     STUDIO WORK

24. 07. 2012. TUESDAY

Guide: Gesa Piper

Spot: Theatre Academy - TeaK

  • Exploring the bodies: bones, muscles, skin, second skin
  • Walking. Walk around and then stop. Then somebody has to come and stand behind you for you to start walking. He’s the vehicle. Feel the warmth, energy, smell of the one behind you that you don’t see.
  • Layers of comfort and discomfort
  • Giving up control over your body & discipline => gradually move into the Flow
  • It’s like food – always tastes different.
  • Curiosity – towards every part of your life
  • Being in the eternity. The clock doesn’t really matter
  • My eyes are not only the eyes – the eye is also in the fingers, in the touch, the body has an eye of its own
  • Always think and play with where the eye is
  • The forms we did were urbanism – there are vertical objects and horizontal ones – there are the buildings, the roads, the parks, the lakes…

 

DAY 8     INTRODUCTION DÉRIVE

25.08.2012.  WEDNESDAY

Guide: Lukas Hüsserl, Zsofia P., Zsofia Sz.

Spot: Happi youth centre

  • Physiological geography
  • Derive – method of experiencing a place – to let yourself be drawn
  • Construction of different situations to suggest different ideas
  • Dropping your usual methods of walking around
  • Task: mental mapping  by strolling  around the town

 

DAY 9.    PROGRESSIVE DÉRIVE

26. 08. 2012. THURSDAY

Guide: Kuki Wonderland workgroup

Spot: outskirts of Helsinki

  • discussing last day’s dérive,  paper
  • collective dérive
  • visiting the gasometer

DAY 10    THE BODY IS ARCHITECTURE

27. 08. 2012.  FRIDAY

Guide: Patrick J., Zsofia P., Zsofia Sz.

Spot: Happi youth centre

Preparing presentation proposal, writing your opinion, reading papers - somaaestethics.

 

DAY 11    FINAL PRESENTATION

28. 08. 2012.  SATURDAY

Guide: Patrick J., Zsofia P., Zsofia Sz.

Spot: Wastelands, Suvilahti

Bodysurfing loop.