Über Dan Richter erreichte uns eine Anfrage von zwei Impro-Trainern aus Charlottesville, Virgina/USA, die im Rahmen einer Europa/Afrika-Reise in der Zeit vom 01. bis 06. August 2010 in Berlin sein werden.

Brad und Mecca suchen für die genannte Zeit noch eine Unterkunft in Berlin und würden im Gegenzug einen kostenlosen 1-2 tägigen Workshop für eine Improgruppe oder auch eine andere Gruppe von Menschen anbieten. Falls jemand Interesse hat (oder das Projekt vielleicht einfach nur durch Bereitstellung einer Unterkunft unterstützen möchte), bitte direkt Kontakt mit Brad aufnehmen.

Brad Stoller:  bradstoller[ät]comcast.net

Hier noch ein paar Infos zu ihrem Workshop und ihrer Reise:

———BORDER CROSSINGS ———

Feel All that You Touch: (Surfaces and Depths)

The borderline of the skin is where one first encounters the other, and this can also serve as a metaphor for borders between different cultures. Can we actually meet at the border rather than put up guards? Can touch return as a force of softening and listening?

Mecca Burns is a drama therapist and theatre activist who applies theatre to race relations in the American South. Brad Stoller is a theatre professor who has taught contact improvisation in the USA for over twenty five years. Both studied TO with Augusto Boal and others in New York City for many years. This summer Mecca and Brad will be sharing their work  in Spain,  Kenya, Uganda, Germany and Finland.

They are developing a synthesis of Theatre of the Oppressed and Contact Improvisation, which will be offered in Barcelona, Spain and Freiburg, Germany.

This workshop is for:

~theatre activists and artists who wish to bring more physical sensitivity  and joy into their work

~contact dancers who wish to address social issues

~people who work interculturally

CONTENTS OF THE WORKSHOP:

• Conversing through touch as well as image, applying the principles of contact improvisation (shared centers,breath as motivator, developmental movement patterns, and deep listening to a partner]

• Ongoing evolution of TO games like Hypnosis, Great Game of Power, West Side Story to nonverbally reveal the underlying power structures

• Physicalizing the projections and assumptions that can cause miscommunication between groups and individuals

• Sculpting using principles of weight-sharing, to  experience  others as fully three-dimensional beings with volume and mass. Eg. Complete the Image.

• Dynamizing images using contact/touch as the catalyst with Screen Image and Cop in the Head.

• Consciously using the aesthetics of dance to expand the movement vocabulary (eg effort-shape: rise and sink, narrow and widen, advance and retreat) when working with internalized oppression.

• Letting mindful body awareness help you stay present when emotions are stimulated by situations of oppression

Mecca Burns MA, RDT-BCT and Brad Stoller MFA
Presence Center For Applied Theatre Arts

Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
www.contactpresence.org

For more information email: contactpresence[ät]comcast.net