To my dear friends, butoh dancers, who took part of "Dust" in the desert, with Yumiko Yoshioka, and those who didn't.
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Hi: This workshop will take place since April 9th. to April 14th. Love , Diana |
contact: dianaei@hotmail.com
BODY/LANDSCAPE ;WALK/DANCE
DANCE WORKSHOP
WALKING ART JOURNEY
April 2001
“Indeed, when all the possibilities of modern technologies are lost, one returns once more to basic things, to basic materials, to basic thoughts.”
Isamu Noguchi
It constantly changes like the weather. The main theme of Body Weather work is the precise observation of those changes: it is already a dance in itself.
examines and utilizes vocabulary linked to the physical world in order to explore the echo between body and environment. The expressions “to flow” and “to take root” apply to organic and architectural landscapes of the urban and non urban environments and both define subtleties when describing thoughts and bodies. This is a dance beyond stylistic limitations. It directly honors the detailed complexity of a chosen landscape and creates a language void of ready-made concepts.
How can we read the landscape and reflect on it? As artists going to any kind
of environments how can we raise awareness, develop sensitivity, expression, thoughts and movements? The project looks at why we dance and how it is generated in the context of our environment through experimenting with the walk, a functional human movement. Can we reflect on how we affect landscapes and how this is done from a consciously instinctive motivation in art? Can we connect with the memories and experiences of spaces?
To exchange and experience our concepts with walking as our base; to develop techniques of reading landscapes and absorbing information on the landscapes through gathering, recording, mapping, sketching, and documenting.
This course deals with walking. Walking is no longer thought of as the handy
way of going from one spot to another, nor simply considered as a consequence of our being be-ped beings; walking with no destination in mind, no goal. When we walk through a landscape we experience a different notion of time and get out of our habits; as a result, we observe and adopt different body movements. Walking changes the scale of time and will allow us to experiment with space, to face outside elements on our way out of the studio (weather, others, geography..). From dreamer, we can become observer. Walking is a training in itself. Walking inscribes itself in the body, mixes life with studio like work. Walking enables us to become conscious of our own limits, perchance push them away. Walking becomes a working studio.
one chooses to walk
to question the meaning of walking
by day and night
to observe one’s own body at work when walking
to cling on to the walk
to stop and resume
to talk or remain silent
one chooses to walk
to meet the moment
the link between past and project
the awareness of change
the idea that there is no better nor worse
the care exercised in every component of the journey:oneself, others, places,
weather, geography..
one chooses to walk
to leave aside and to forget within our creative behaviours and acts,
the idea of learning and ranking
the idea of perfection and the idea of fuzziness
the idea of meaning and intending
The workshop is open to everyone interested in investigation through the body, involved or not in expression.No previous experience is necessary. It requires a demanding attitude. It will function beside the “Walking art journey” as a nomadic camp moving from city to city (Jerusalem) on a 60km road. It will last 8 days. Each participant should be equipped for walking, sleeping and protecting oneself from the weather as well as note books or what ever recording medium is. Bags should not weight over 15kg . Coming with personal tents might be an option regarding to the organization of the rest of the group. Personal health insurance is required. Public performances with participants might be envisaged.