Territories of intimacy – choreographic workshop for women

Territories of intimacy – choreographic workshop for women |

 

Renata Piotrowska-Auffret

About the workshop:

In the frame of our meetings we will also talk about horizontal human relations and politics of care.

During practical and theoretical workshop we will be doing choreographic and movement practices and develop discussions based on chosen texts. We are going to look together at the modes of appropriation and deconstruction of female victim representations and emancipatory dimension of a witch figures.

From physical perspective, the participants together with artist Renata Piotrowska-Auffret, will create a movement and choreographic practices based on the sense of being together, listening and experiencing your own body and the power which can be awaken from the body biology. The group will work with phenomenas of victim figure and witch figure – its historical and contemporary symptoms. Choreographer Renata Piotrowska-Auffret will propose as a starting point to practice in movement, chosen tasks and scenes from her last piece „Flatland of limp muscles”. It will be materials such as: a dance inspired by archives of historical Dance of the Chosen choreographed by Nijinsky from a ballet „Rite of Spring“, touch practice, „hexing the state“ – from sensation to over expression movement and sound practice, „between shake and pogo“ trance dance.

From intellectual perspective, the group will try to create a vision of a new system, new strategies of building female body representations and its treatments. Participants will analyze four subjects: women’s independency, politics of reproduction, aging female body, body of a women and earth with its natural resources. Every day of a workshop the group will read a text related to one of those core issues from above.

During workshop the group will read and discuss texts from cultural theory, among them feminists and eco-feminists texts written by: Mona Chollet, Emilie Hache, Silvia Federici, Tithi Bhattacharya.

All the tasks which will be realized during the workshop, will be based on and dependent from a relation between practice and theory. Choreography in that workshop is understood in a wide sense, as strategies and modes of relations between body and minds, movements and thoughts in given educational, artistic and social context.

Such a laboratory meeting, which joins practice with theory, will give a chance to see social dimension of choreography. This workshop experience might be not only an important „her and now“ experience but also a trigger to further individual or collective activities in a broader social and political context.

The effects of the workshop will be a video presentation with the fragments of the practice and publication of discussed vision of a new state / change / future. It will have an online form with texts, fragments of discussions, description of practices, drawings, photos and other forms. It will be available for free online.

Bio:

Renata Piotrowska-Auffret is a choreographer and artist; in her works, she uses the tools of experimental dance, performative arts, dramaturgy and theatre. Since 2014, she has started a series of ‘Private Pieces’ – performances about female body politics. Within it, she has created: „Death: Exercises and Variations” (2014), „The pure gold is seeping out of me” (2017) and „Flatland of limp muscles” (2019). She was a priority artist in the framework of Aerowaves Twenty17 and Aerowaves Twenty19.
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The workshop is the part of the project led by Performat Foundation (PL) and Circe Platform — Experimental Platform for Dance and Theatre (GE) titled “Polki. Choreografie społeczne / The Poles. Social Choreographies / პოლონელები. სოციალური ქორეოგრაფია”

Co-financed under the Multiannual Program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-2022, as part of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute grant program “Cultural Bridges”
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Co-financed by Tbilisi City Hall, Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia and Creative Georgia.

Dates: 3,10,17,31 October, 7 November
Hour: 12:00 pm (GMT+4)
Workshops will be held in ZOOM

Working language: English
Number of participants: 16

Workshop is the open type,
To participate please fill in the form before 1 October: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vHN-LM-NnVSLPz5UCFcy9h814EHdBIICCcceOiwX1V0/edit