Workshop / Residency “Niches urbaines” : 16-20 december 2013, 10h-30-16h30, Camping Town Studio.

 The Actif and the Passif BODY. Body-work with Anne-Dolorès Marcélis (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday : 10h30-13H), Contact-Impro dancer and historian of the social body.

 Using Contact-Impro techniques and performance work (Stone, Plantaison), we will articulate activity and passivity in our own body : how can you be at the same time “mover” and “follower”? How can the “getting down to the ground” and the “pushing out of the ground” conduce to the waves for a passif-actif body ? How can the work with dark and light bring to the energy of day and nigth ? How can we, in a small dance, use the body of a partner as a nest ?

 + special session on the topic actif-passif body in BMC (Body Mind Centering): “Yielding, pushing, reaching”. By Céline Verdan, Friday, 10h-12hs30.

The idle body and the shame.

Open exploratory residency by Raquel Santana Morais 

( We want to open this residency to participants of the workshop week. SHAME is a new point of view through which we want to approach Niches Urbaines, and this week will be the starting point of this new explorations.)

S H A M E – “Shame is an acutely self-conscious state in which the self is ‘split,’ imagining the self in the eyes of the other…”  Judith Lewis Herman

We want to focus our explorations of SHAME on the particular social dimension of this emotion.

What is SHAME ? In what and how  SHAME is revealing normative structures of a society ? What are the stablished representations of SHAME ?

We will try open up our perceptions and manipulate SHAME mechanisms, symptoms, representations in spatial /performative situations.

Afternoon 1 – Texts and representations of SHAME. Group reading and talk – bibliography coming soon. (Together we will try to identify different orbits of meaning.)

Afternoon 2 – Objects of shame. Practice in the studio with objects and materials related to shame.

Afternoon 3 and 4 – Practicing shame. Brussels 1000. By duos, we will find locations and try out our explorations in Brussels.

Inscriptions : campingtown.be@gmail.com.

Cost : 125 euros (inscription before december 1st / 150 euros).