Workshops 2012

Workshops 2012

© Lyina Adieux

Alix Eynaudi & Mark Lorimer
Bondage

© Lyina Adieux
Adv
Week 4, 6.8.–10.8.2012
10:00–14:00
DA 1
Bondage as choreographic instructions The starting point of the workshop lies within the practice of bondage. During their initial research, Alix Eynaudi and Mark Lorimer extracted a few characteristics of the practice of bondage, these characteristics will be reformulated into strategies of relating to one another, of creating dance material. Leaving behind the aesthetics of bondage, its rules and ethics will be subjected to abstraction and therefore provide loose parameters, free to be experimented with, turned inside out. Constraints can be real, but one can also play with them. The difference between its realness or staged character becomes blurry in bondage – this is most obvious in its sadomasochistic variants. We will explore this blurriness both physically, by playing with the participants own created constraints (carrying each-other, wrapping each-other, squeezing, hugging etc...), and performatively through the attention/intention we give them. Dancers will face, embody or navigate a set of constraints that are imposed either by themselves or onto each other. Another approach to the same theme and that is dear to us, is that what if we looked at bondage as a way to take care of each other? As dancers, we could then use specific techniques of taking care of the body, or of the mind through a form of body work, and turn them into performing strategies. Choreography will then function as a subversive act towards the skills that we learned through our respective trainings. We wish to explore the possibilities that bondage opens by being associated to choreography.
Alix EynaudiMark Lorimer
© Lyina Adieux
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