Georg BLASCHKE & Sascha KRAUSNEKER
present body / narrative body

present body / narrative body Feldenkrais – Body-Biography - Movement Research Subject: My body – a territory of incorporated patterns of personal movement development and at the same time a territory for the incorporation of skills based on experiences. How does my body experience and handle basic organisation of movement and the demands of improving and developing skills? When does the memory start to organise implied bodily memories, contingent on our biographies, and brings it into a time continuum? And how does this self-narrative articulate in the present moment and as performative quality? A quality that can draw from the own body-biography and which incorporates concrete artistic relevance within a group and the actual space. Field of work: 1. In the beginning there is input from the Feldenkrais Method with specifically created ATMs (Awareness Through Movement lessons), which engage in movement development from the embryonic stage up to the upright walking and analyse the skills of the moving body. This workshop section is guided by Sascha Krausneker, who will acknowledge the actual experiences of the participants and follows a functional and linear course of actions. Talks, sharings and selfreflexion are included and will sensitively initiate a working process with partners. 2. Interconnected and related to this first section are movement research, improvisation and the development of choreographic material. Somatic memories of an incorporated urge to move will be reconstructed and will lead to questioning self-awareness of the body in the present moment and in interaction with space, objects and partners. Some points of reference we will engage in: - the flow as a body/mind-state between awareness of the inside and the outside, as well as the practice of non-judgemental performance - the question of approaching movement and movement flow in memory awareness and imagination, and the actual implentation as artistic representation in space - possibilities of constraints, meaning limitation of movement as choreographic tool - sceletal awareness and touch as foundation for partner work - am I (still) my body, or have I been forgotten, diffused and reassembled? - what does simple mean in the choreographic context and how do you approach the necessity of integrating function and structure into the work? This Workshop is addressed to participants with experience in the fields of movement and performance. An informal showing at the end of the week is possible.