In this Workshop we aim to treat space as the central (and possibly only) choreographic concern. We will draw on various sources from artist’s I have worked with, my own ideas around spatial patterns and ways of organising movement through it's relationship to space, as well as devising our own spatial tasks.
In the hierarchy - movement vocabulary, time, and space - the latter is often the least considered or under-explored element where it can be better investigated and brought to the centre of choreography (or the edge, or hovering somewhere at the back - wherever it’s most interesting to the work). We will treat the space - floor patterns, space between/around/over/under, plus the environment we dance in, as the primary choreographic stimuli during this weeklong Workshop.
The Workshop is open to advanced level students but perhaps more than formal dance training, this Workshop requires a strong desire and skill in working with structure and form as well as an imagination for developing ideas in this vein.
Mark Lorimer
