Seminar on Improvisation and Performance

FIRST MEETING

Spoken Word & movement

Spoken Word & stillness

Spoken Word & repetition

Spoken Word & rhythm

Spoken Word & object

Spoken Word & improvised sound, voice, unconventional sound

Spoken Word & written word (visualization of the text)

Spoken Word & colour

 

 

SECOND MEETING

Improvisation in a group

Multilingual

Playing with words & sounds

Playing with words & sounds, movements & objects

                  wherein solo & ensemble are combined

 

 

THIRD MEETING

Working in the nature, in a park or on the river bank

Working in the urban spaces,

                  in a side street

                  in a semi public or public square

 

Languages of the seminar: English and German

Please bring comfortable clothes and a mat.

 

Recommended reading:

Mis(s)placed Women? (2009-22) project blog: <https://misplacedwomen.wordpress.com/>

PLAYING UP GENDER, Fundus Theater of Research, Hamburg <http://gender.playingup.de>

PLAYING UP, Sibylle Peters, Live Art Development Agency, London, 2016.

Lexicon of Tanjas Ostojic, Live Art Development Agency, London, 2018.

At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond, Deborah Moggach, Daunt Books Publishing, 2019.

The Analysis of Performance Art , Anthony Howell, Routledge, London, 2000.

 

SEMINAR DATES

Attention, active participation, presence.

Conception and completion of a short performance.

Writing of a performance score (performance instructions).