Unplugged Revisited Workshop | AINARA MAKALILO – 8 DAYS WORKSHOP IN GREECE
A non-conventional experimental open laboratory of research and creation, with Ainara Makalilo, aimed at exploring new ways of moving and relating to the environment.
Where: Neochori, Lefkada, Greece
When: 25 June – 2 July, 2023
DAILY SCHEDULE
08.30 -09.30 breakfast
10.00 – 12.00 Practice
12.00 – 16.00 Resting & snack
16.00-19.30 Practice
20.00 -21.00 Dinner
Sunday 25th of June is the arrival day, and only welcome dinner is included.
Sunday 2nd of July is the departure day, and only breakfast is included.
Deadline for applications: June 18 2023 / Early bird until 25th of May!
This workshop is a non-conventional experimental open laboratory of research and creation aimed at exploring new ways of moving and relating to the environment.
We will relate to elements and the states we go through by finding new strategies. We will get in touch with what surrounds us in surprising different ways, exploring the intersections of bodies and their environment. This workshop is focused on the meeting between body and landscape, the individual/ collective body and space.
In this second edition, we will explore the act of walking and the wandering:
#different ways of walking, of guiding and being guided
#sensitive wanderings and how we can approach elements, textures, other bodies, ours;
#how to deal with what we can feel through our senses but also with the invisible, and observe the movements that arise from these encounters.
#we will create different experiences around the act of remembering and build sensitive maps and cartographies in motion out of these researches.
#we will set up a play yard and will try through DADA techniques to create absurd choreographies.
#we will go on a journey around different sceneries (urban and nature), ending up the week with a wild final presentation open to audience.
The distance between my body and my shadow, the walk, the fall, environment seen otherwise, unlikely moving behaviors; becoming a body for the first time, transforming into exquisite-corpses, improvising in improbable spaces, stepping back, letting go, moving on. Gravity and lightness, memory, the invisible, the unpredictable, let’s deform together daily patterns
Based on the experience with DaDá collectives (L’atelier D and La Sangria Discreta) and the Moonwalk project (an itinerant dance project during a moon cycle), this workshop is aimed at abandoning conventions and exploring the unknown, the unpredictable, through exercises developed outdoors.
The exercises proposed are inspired by improvisation, Butō dance, performance, authentic movement, Body weather techniques, DaDÁ, as well as the desire to write and share personal languages outside the everyday.
More info here: https://unpluggeddance.com/workshops-posts/workshop-3/
BIO
AINARA LOPEZ (Makalilo) is a Spanish dancer, choreographer, translator/interpreter and collage artist living in between France and Switzerland. She creates multi-disciplinary and socially engaging performances for improbable spaces. Her work is often site-specific, inspired by the unpredictable, rituals and DADA. With a background in Fine Arts and butō dance, she also studied Linguistics and Translation, improvisation, mask work and performance and so she often incorporates different approaches and languages to the projects she is involved in. In 2013 she began exploring itinerancy and the relationship between the individual/collective body, landscape and memory. Inspired by the work of Min Tanaka (Body weather), the Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade collective in Italy, and other experiences of performative itinerancy, she created in 2016, together with French dancer Anis Ouazzani, an itinerant residency project in the Pyrenees. The Moonwalk project is a month-long itinerant research lab focused on body/landscape. This project has been followed by many different experiences in natural and urban environments. She is currently working on a project called CARTOGRAPHIES of the souvenir, that arises as a personal need to give a concrete form to these body/landscape encounters and their link to memory, by creating collective guided wanderings in different urban landscapes. She has collaborated and assisted choreographers and dancers such as Imre Thornmann, Anita Saij, Gyohei Zaitsu, Atsushi Takenouchi, Frank van de Ven, etc. and has been involved in several international projects and collaborations with performers, sound artists, film makers and visual artists. She is cofounder of multidisciplinary art collective L’Atelier D (Tunisia- Denmark), and Sangria Discreta and La Cie deTASoeur (Switzerland). Currently opening a dance residency space in an old church of Cévennes (France). She has been teaching but DADAteliers on unpredictable dance and Moonwalk workshops (in itinerancy in the mountains) for the past 10 years.
WHAT IS UNPLUGGED DANCE
A dance educational program in Lefkada Greece including original dance workshops with inspiring international educators and artists of contemporary dance and somatic practices. A living and practicing experience including dance workshops, accommodation and meals.
All Unplugged Dance workshops are open to everyone who wants to meet, share, dance and self-explore through movement and creative process.
Find more details about Unplugged Dance on https://unpluggeddance.com/
WHAT IS UNPLUGGED REVISITED
DADAtelier on unpredictable dance is part of Unplugged Revisited 2023, an imprint left by our meeting with the facilitators of the first Unplugged Dance program.
With the intention of creating a space of educational, artistic research and exchange, that will give the opportunity for our individual trajectories to meet and our relationships to deepen, we created this branch where educators/artists from the previous Unplugged Dance programs, have a whole week in order to deepen or revisit their workshop.
ACCOMMODATION & MEALS
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HOW TO ARRIVE
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HOW TO APPLY:
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Costs for participants: From 665 euros -accommodation and meals included-
Contact details: [email protected]