Platform Circe and Performat Foundation are hosting:
Online workshops by Renata Piotrowska-Auffret, jointly conducted by Aleksandrea Bożek-Muszyńska.
About the workshop:
During our practical and theoretical workshops, we will conduct choreographic and motion / movement activities as well as discuss a selection of texts. From the bodily perspective, we will attempt to create a movement and choreography practice founded on the sense of community, listening to one another, and experiencing one’s body as well as on the strength derived from the bodily organicism and biology. From the intellectual perspective, we will attempt to create a vision of a new system, of new strategies of building an image of a woman’s body and its treatment.
During the workshops, the group will read and discuss feminist and eco-feminist texts by among others Mona Chollet, Sarah Ahmed, Stacy Alaimo, and Emilie Hache. Tasks conducted in the course of the sessions will be dependent upon the relation between theory and practice. Choreography is understood broadly: as strategies and ways of relating thoughts and bodies in motion in a given educational, artistic, or social context.
Together, we will take a close look at care in the context of our individual work with our own bodies and creation of horizontal interhuman relations. We will discuss, visualize, and envision what the world and politics, if based on relations founded on care, could look like. We will make a concerted effort to establish a community of women and specify our aims in the social context: how to increase the visibility of women artists, women mothers, and other people with tutelary responsibility. With the assistance of choreographic tools, we will search for relations grounded in respect and care for oneself and the entire group.
Fusing theory and practice, the workshop meeting will enable us all to notice the social dimension of choreography. This experience can be of significance to all the participants “right here, right now”, but it can also become the driving force behind further individual and collective activities conducted in a wider social and political context.
We invite everyone identifying as women, regardless of their age.
Participation in workshops is free of charge. Prior dance and movement experience is not necessary.
If you are interested in the workshop, please send your contact information (full name, email, phone number) at [email protected]
Choreographers and teachers:
Renata Piotrowska-Auffret – choreographer and artist; in her works she uses tools of experimental dance, performative arts, dramaturgy, and theatre. Piotrowska-Auffret contemplates the contemporary world by deriving her inspirations from intimate experiences, real and fictional, embedded in a given social context. She is interested in the perversity of relations between the historical and contemporary body politics, between the public and the private, as well as between text and movement.
She was a priority artist in the frame of Aerowaves Twenty17 and Aerowaves Twenty19. Since 2014, she has started a series of Private Pieces – performances putting at stake female body politics, oscillating between the private and the public. As she describes her works: “I am a female artist, I am a woman, I am a mother – so the polarization of the body touches me directly. I always have a personal and autobiographical urgency to do the work.” As a result of working with politically involved themes, the private pieces have already been created.
Within the Private Pieces series, she has created: Death: Exercises and Variations (2014), The pure gold is seeping out of me (2017) and Flatland of Limp Muscles (2019). Her most recent piece is Danse Macabre (2021).
Since 2019 she is researching in the notion of care in a context of motherhood and artistic practices. She participated in Parent Hood conference organized by Dansehallerne and created podcasts Dare to care for Gand Re Union. Since 2020 she is developing her first curatorial project Institute of Care.
Piotrowska-Auffret is a holder of the Exerce Master Choreographic degree at the Institut Chorégraphique International (International Choreographic Institute) in Montpelier and a graduate of the Theatre Academy in Białystok.
Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska — choreographer and performer, improviser, business coach and Russian language interpreter. For many years she has been leading regular classes in contemporary dance and improvisation, gymnastics for seniors, as well as creating her own choreographies. She is a scholarship holder of the Alternative Dance Academy 2015-2017 (Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk, Poznań), Intensive Course at School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam) and a beneficiary of the Global Practice Sharing Program at Movement Research (New York). A graduate of the one-year Experimental Choreography II course organized by Centrum w Ruchu (Centre in Motion) in Warsaw. Her works were presented, among others, in Berlin, Budapest, Philadelphia, New York, Warsaw, and Vienna. In 2017, together with Hanna Bylka-Kanecka, she co-created the Holobiont Collective, which runs interdisciplinary multigenerational projects based around workshops and performance. In her practice, she explores the boundaries between performing and facilitating, between naivety and simplicity, and between finding patterns and breaking them. Excitement and pleasure play an important part of her work.
Date: 4,5,6,7 October, 2021
Online.
