Foto: Simon Alleyne

Workshop: Body Wisdom

UPPDATERING: Pga sjukdom kommer Steve Batts kollega Ayesha Mailey att hålla i denna workshop

Det framgångsrika projektet ”Body Wisdom” har pågått i många år i Derry i Nordirland under ledning av Steve Batts. Projektet innefattar klasser, workshops och framträdanden och är riktat till de som är 50 år och äldre.

Steve Batts kommer till Örebro som del av festivalen Going Solo Together på Teater Martin Mutter den 8-11 december och kommer som del av festivalen att erbjuda en Body Wisdom introduktionsklass för vem som helst som har lämplig ålder och vill delta.

Så här berättar Steve om workshopen:

Under klassen kommer vi att utforska improvisation snarare än att memorera övningar. Vi kommer uppmärksamma våra rörelser tillsammans vilket kan vara en väldigt djup och känslomässigt rörande upplevelse, men vi kommer också hålla saker på ytan och fokusera på glädjen att röra oss.

Det är förstås både fysiskt och psykiskts hälsosamt att röra på sig men vi strävar inte efter att nå ett mål att må bättre, det är snarare en bi-produkt när vi utforskar rörelse som en delad, poetisk process.

Vi har förhållningen att äldre människor har enorm poetisk potential inbäddad i deras rörelse liv. Vi tar bort förväntningar som ofta är förknippade med dans som konstform – extrem mobilitet, atletek, smidighet – och vi börjar istället där folk är. Vem som helst som är 50 år och äldre kan bli med, oavsett fysisk förmåga eller erfarenhet.

I’m 61 years old and, after 40 years working in dance and movement, I’m only beginning to understand the true depth, beauty and pleasure of moving. For me dancing becomes less and less an athletic event and more and more like poetry or music. I like the subtlety and detail that comes to the fore when big, energetic movement is no longer so appealing. Of course I like to see young people dancing in their way, but what I really love is to see the wise and experienced embodied attention, guided creatively, in a way that only those of us who are older can access. After all, painters and writers are not considered past-it at 50 and blues singers seem to only be getting going at 60!” I see no reason why dancing can’t be like that too.

• Datum och tid: 8 december kl. 18.
• Plats: Teater Martin Mutter.
• Kostnadsfritt.
• Anmälan: Mejla namn, telefonnummer och antal personer till motesplats@martinmutter.com Kom ihåg att ange vilken workshop du anmäler dig till.

Workshopen genomförs i samarbete med Dansscen Örebro och Region Örebro län/Dans i Örebro län.

9 december 19.00

Foto: Alexandru Vasiliu

OBS: INSTÄLLD PGA SJUKDOM

How To Watch Dancing (Looking Away From The Naked Emperor) – Steve Batts

En soloföreställning – i form av en föreläsning – i form av en föreställning.

Text/Scendesign: Steve Batts
Musik: Chopin Nocturnes – Brigitte Engerer
Ljus: Barry Davis

“How To Watch Dancing is a masterpiece from Stephen Batts. His solo refers to artistic activity infused by pedagogical viewpoints, generating for a viewer a field of continuous learning. The performance provides a strong foundation for creative and critical thinking.”
– Dr Mirva Maakinen. Dance artist: Performer, Choreographer and Teacher. Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts and University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland.

“How to Watch Dancing is the kind of performance that takes you into another world. A detailed
perspective on the complex layers of dancing. As Steve Batts walks on stage it feels like his steps
become your steps. You want to follow, move, ask, dance, wonder, cry, think, take notes. Your
attention is travelling between intellectual and emotional realms, as Steve is engaged in a well
composed, detailed, funny, and surprising dance journey. It’s an invitation to ‘take your armour off
and let yourself be rung like a bell’.”
– Virginia Negru. (organiser of Contact Bucharest Festival)

10 december kl 19.00

Soloföreställningar:

Poetics of Counterpoint – Ayesha Mailey

Dance artist, Ayesha Mailey and composer, Colin Norrby developed this solo performance work with a curiosity of what might emerge poetically when exploring the idea of counterpoint within music and movement. Beginning with the sound and movement of the breath and bringing their embodied memory and imagination to their process, they played with repetition, accumulation and layering composing patterns to create texture and meaning.

Duration 13mins

Movement choreography – Ayesha Mailey

Music composition – Colin Norrby

Lighting design – Barry Davis

Supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Produced by Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company

Ayesha Mailey is a freelance dance and movement artist based in Derry, in the north west of Ireland. She is the Associate Artistic Director of Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company and a member of the Echo Echo Ensemble. Ayesha is committed to developing her arts practice in poetic movement and finding ways to explore this through professional and participatory arts projects, locally, nationally and internationally.

Spontan komposition – Kazue Ikeda

Alla rörelser blir dans, alla uttryck blir teater. Vardagslivet är en koreografi. Kazue lyssnar till sitt inre och tar upp impulser från sin omgivning, rummet, publiken och skapar därifrån ett improviserat spelrum, just i detta ögonblick.

Kazue Ikeda (föddes i Japan) är dansare, koreograf och Craniosacral Biodynamics terapeut. Hennes koreografier och soloverk presenteras i USA, Japan, Tyskland, Sverige och Europa. Hon har arbetet med Kevin Wynn, Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Anna Sokolow’s Players Project med flera  i New York,  Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Helena Waldmann, Christoph Winkler, Iztok Kovač och med flera i Tyskland. Hon undervisar nutida dans-teknik, improvisation, komposition och “body awareness” på University for Music and Dance Cologne, Kävesta folkhögskola, Korea National University of Arts (gäst professor) och flera. Idag lever och arbetar hon i Sverige med flera projekt; ”Beyond Borders”, ”Från… Till…”, ”N.N.”, ”Hälsa på!”, ”Trädens Viskningar” och mer.

Foto: Julia Zhitluhina

Gained in Translation – Toby Gunn

Some obtuse musings around language, translation, and gifting…
Gifting to another language either deliberately or by accident.
This solo is part of a larger prospective project, triangulating English, Swedish
and Lithuanian. All in the fullness of time.

Toby Gunn is a British dance artist, based in Sweden, who has been dancing for money since
1990! In the mid-90s, he ran the experimental choreographic workgroup Toby Gunn et al.
As a dancer during the past 30+ yrs. he has danced for, and collaborated with, a number
of companies and choreographers (just a few of these include Russell Maliphant, Eva
Lundqvist, Wayne McGregor, Yolande Snaith, Sophie Maslow, Javier de Frutos, Mona
Økland, Adi Sha’al, Noa Wertheim… and more).
One of the founders of Kävesta Danslinje, Toby taught there for 16 yrs. He has been a
regular guest teacher at various establishments in Britain, and currently is teaching at SKH
(Stockholm Univeristy of the Arts). He is a member of the lifelongdancepractice / bodyexperience-time group, touring with the performance RAZDEDAUCH 2022-2023.
Since 2008 Toby has also run a successful Bowen Therapy practice.

Att stå med en liten, liten pensel och känna en stor, stor längtan – Helene Steen

Still image: Colin Norrby

AMID THE NOISE AND THE HASTE (2021) – En film av Colin Norrby

En unik film med original musik innefattande 20 dansare i åldrarna 7-70+ som framför en serie solon i olika utomhus miljöer i Derry och närliggande lokala platser.

Colin Norrbys film ‘Amid the Noise and the Haste’ är skapad i samband med Echo Echo Festival of Dance and Movement 2021 och projektet ’Together Alone: Solos in the City’ där 20 dansare i olika åldrar framförde en serie solon på mer än 50 platser utomhus i Derry och närliggande lokala platser.

Regissör, Filmkonst, Orkestrering – Colin Norrby
Producent – Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company

Medverkande – Esther Alleyne, Steve Batts, Connor Bell, Majella Biernat, Liam Cunningham, Emma Duddy, Naya Duffy, Ellen Factor, Dennis Golden, Maggie Hannon, James King, Gail Mahon, Ayesha Mailey, Tina McCauley, Kelly Quigley, Zoe Ramsey, Tonya Sheina, Dara Sheina-Batts, Mira Sheina-Batts, Lihi Shivak.

”Amid the Noise and the Haste is a highlight of my ongoing creative partnership with Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company. As first-time director, I approached the film as a hybrid of form – documentary and art-film. The artists on screen were fully immersed in their performances and, as cameraman, I was keen not to distract. Through a long lens I captured moments; details that were simultaneously unique and alike. As each performance went by, a visual narrative began to emerge. Likewise, musical ideas and themes started to develop in my head. In the end, all that was left to do was to shape and sculpt the material. The result, I believe, is a film that shows the influence that a place or a city has on its people; how you can choose to either move through it passively from A to B, or to slow down and become aware of it – how it makes you think or move.” – Colin Norrby

11 december 10.00 – 16.00

Möteplats Mutter – workshop för professionella scenkonstnärer med Ayesha Mailey och Steve Batts från Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company

Deltagaravgift: 200 kr per person (betalas med swish/kontant på plats)
Anmäl dig till motesplats@martinmutter.com
Ta med egen lunch, kyl och micro finns på teatern

The workshop will look at some themes implicit and explicit in the solo performances of Ayesha and Steve. In our company, Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company, we think of dancing as ”real movement in real time and real space, engaged in with poetic intent”. With this in mind we’ll look at the three parameters of time, space and presence. As a first stage we will bring attention to the quality of our attention and presence through an exploration of sensory and somatic experience applied to the act of improvising movement ”poetically” . When we’ve got our dance going we’ll then explore in more detail ”phrasing” (time parameter) and ”proximity” (space parameter). We’ll allow what we learn to settle into our attention so that it can liberate the dance and we’ll watch and share together our different but overlapping dances.

Ayesha and Steve have been dancing together for over 25 years. They are senior members of Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company. Echo Eco’s ”poetic movement” approach to the art of dancing has proved an organically inclusive way to maintain artistic integrity while opening dance practice up to a very wide range of people. The approach is both welcoming and demanding of clarity of attention and has proved valuable, over many years, for a wide range of people interested in dance and movement including professional dancers, actors, people with disabilities, children, older people and many others.