BODIES IN COMPOSITION is a training program in instant composition, organized by Cité Danse in partnership with the CCN de Grenoble for the 2024-2025 season, with artists Agostina d'Alessandro, Maya M Carroll and Julyen Hamilton.
This intensive three-week training program spread over 24-25, led by European experts in instantaneous composition, offers full immersion in three distinct approaches to collective research.
Participants have the option of committing to the whole program or choosing one or two weeks, with priority given to full registrations. Courses are held in English.
PRACTICAL INFO
Registration from April 17 to July 5, via the Google Form available on the Cité Danse website. Places limited to 25, priority will be given to those wishing to take the whole course.
Contact: bodiesincomposition@gmail.com
For the entire training course, i.e. 90 hours: 650 euros
For two weeks of training, i.e. 60 hours: 480 euros
For one week of training, i.e. 30 hours: 270 euros
Membership of the Cité Danse Association season 24-25: 20 euros
A 5-day immersion in the Conscious Release™ method, the result of years of experimentation and research into body mechanics, philosophy, movement theory and the metaphysical approach to the body. This technique optimizes body perception by refining awareness of the dancer's current bodily state and available physical capacities. The body becomes a limitless tool for the dancer's imagination. Contemplation of inner space and release of tension enable the dancer to break through habitual movement patterns. Full creativity can then be experienced, and form appears only in the service of a single expression: the present moment. These physical explorations lead to a state of full presence with oneself, with others and with space, with which we enter into the composition of instantaneous pieces.
Maya M Caroll transmits her knowledge of the body, composition and the multiple layers of space. These notions are practiced through movement, perception and imagination. In dance, they are both intuitive and attentive subjects of study, providing an essential understanding of our compositional cartography and choreographic landscapes. Thanks to the fluidity and precision of the body, the workshop guides and unfolds kinaesthetic experiences. A tangible world where actions are performed and supported by a deepened awareness of proximity and distance, inner and outer space, geometry, form and dimension. We also observe how space is perceived and distinguished in our compositions, practically, atmospherically, theatrically and poetically. Practice and group work involve instant composition as a method of learning, appreciating, refining work and awareness within the pieces we create together.
A number of recurring elements characterize Julyen Hamilton's work. All have been the subject of extensive research, practice and experimentation. They include light, sound, space, text and speech... as well as the use of objects. Julyen's scenographic work and the use of objects in space are essential to all her works for the stage. Objects placed, carried, manipulated, addressed to, rubbing shoulders with dance, destroyed and created... All give a glimpse of a singular poetry, dialoguing in the context of the dancer's "naked" body. This week is an opportunity to explore this subject, working with the body in depth and in the context of the objects on stage. We'll consider and practice how to enter into poetic relationships with objects: discovering how they can participate and thus reveal other strata and depths in the imaginary of performance.
