Body Weather Workshop
A specific field of inquiry for this Prague workshop will be the nature and function of ‘images’ and their embodiment, working on both Omni Central Imaging and total body images. Frank will share and explore some of the legacy of images that were an integral part of his Body Weather training and performances within the Maijuku performance group in Japan as well as encouraging the development of individual images generated by participants for use in contemporary performance.
As a training, Body Weather is of relevance to anyone interested in exploring the body and physical presence and this workshop is suited to dance, theatre and movement practitioners and artists of various backgrounds.
Studio ► Zlatnická 8, Prague
Dates ► Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 April 2019
Times ► 11-5 pm
Workshop fee ► CZK 2000 / students CZK 1800
Info and reservations ► jana.svobodova@archatheatre.cz
Body Weather is a comprehensive approach to training and performance that investigates the intersections of bodies and their environments. Bodies are conceived not as fixed and separate entities but as constantly changing - just like the weather. Weather is seen as a complex system of forces and influences coursing through and beyond bodies and the world.
The term & philosophical basis for Body Weather was founded in the early 1980's by dancer Min Tanaka and further developed by Laboratories worldwide. Frank van de Ven was a member of Tanaka’s Maijuku Performance Company in Japan, from 1983-1991. With Katerina Bakatsaki he leads Body Weather Amsterdam, a platform for training and performance. He has an ongoing commitment to the Body/Landscape projects he leads worldwide and since 1995 he has led the annual, interdisciplinary Bohemiae Rosa Project with Milos Sejn (Academy of Art & Design, Prague), connecting body and landscape with art, geology, natural history and architecture. www.bohemiaerosa.org
For more info on BW Amsterdam see bodyweatheramsterdam.nl
