[Workshop] Adhering to and rupturing dynamic affinities for creative practice and dynamic movement training

Adhering to and rupturing dynamic affinities for creative practice and dynamic movement training

Explore Rhythm and Effort, their affinities with time and space through embodied understanding of harmonic principles.

Online workshop, November 26

About the workshop

This workshop explores Rhythm and Effort, their affinities with time and space through embodied understanding of harmonic principles. Exploration includes rupturing the principles to engage with creative possibilities for dynamic movement phrases.

Ali will work through collaborative tasks exploring metric and arbitrary rhythmic phrases in movement embodying the changes in intention and expressivity resulting in individual and group cohesion.

We will explore actions and their affinities with time and space.

This workshop is devised using Laban theories of Eukinetics/Effort/Rhythm and refers to Laban’s theories of Choreutics 1966 (Space Harmony) and the notion of “choreological order” (1966, p6), that is, Laban’s proposal of what constitutes a “sensible sequence” in movement, which is seen and experienced as harmonic.

By understanding these harmonic principles, we can creatively fracture them to access different dynamic and action possibilities.

Instructor:

Alison Curtis-Jones

Alison Curtis-Jones, MPhil, FHEA, MA, PGCE, BA(Hons), MHFA

Founder and Director of MOVEMONICS

Artistic Director Summit Dance Theatre

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance London, UK

Ali acclaimed dance artist and movement consultant. Artistic Director of award-winning Summit Dance Theatre and leading exponent of Rudolf Laban’s dance theatre works, performed internationally. Filmed and screened by Swiss TV, German ARTE TV and featured in The BBC documentary “Dance Rebels”. Programme Leader for the Specialist Diploma in Choreological Studies at Trinity Laban, London, UK and founder of MOVEMONICS.  Published in Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Journal of  Dance & Somatic Practices,  Movement and Dance Magazine. Ali’s expertise in contemporary choreological practice has developed over thirty years, teaching in Croatia, South Korea, Japan, Beijing, China, Singapore and Switzerland and presenting research at conferences internationally.

Register for this workshop

• Format: online, zoom, 3 hours with consecutive translation (English to Chinese)
• Time: November 26, 8-11am London time (9am-12pm Amsterdam time)
• Fee: Standard price: 123 USD，115 EUR; IACAET member price: 82 USD，76 EUR (apply for IACAET member)
• Send email to education@inspirees.com to register.