Evolutional body by Laura Kalaus ( Switzerland )

02/06/2011

Evolutional body

The workshop will introduce a training system based on the Body Weather Laboratory (BWL), a body practice founded in Japan in early 1980’s by Min Tanaka

and Hisako Horikawa.

In frames of Time to dance 2011.

Open for professional level

 

It is based on the systematic practice of disorientation and the challenge of

abandoning common places. BWL investigates the relationship of bodies and their

environments. Far from being understood as a fixed unit, the body is seen as a

system of transformations in continuous relationship with its environment (biological,

political, social, etc.). The proposal includes exercises that re-examine the behavior

of our physical patterns and the mental structures that reinforce them.

 

The workshop will be structured in 2 parts:

1. ‘MB’ (mind / body, muscles / bones): a practice of aerobical movements, designed

to expand the range of physical and mental capabilities of each individual. It is based

on the repetition of movement exercises and simple sequences that stimulate

sensitivity, coordination and stamina, while building muscle strength, flexibility and

body awareness.

2. Manipulations: a series of seven sequences of streching and alignment. It based

on the performance of several yoga postures, facilitated by the assistance of a

partener. The help of the partener, who does most of the muscle work, enables the

quality of an intense but relaxed stretching. This state gives way to the awareness of

unnecessary tension patterns and offers the possibility for new spaces and

relationships within the body to be created. The re-aligment of bone structure,

muscles and organs, will encourage the body towards a process of constant

evolutionary change.

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Laura Kalauz

Was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1975) where she studied dance and  Sciences of Social Communication at the

University of Buenos Aires. In 2003 graduated as Dance Maker at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten–Dansacademie Arnhem, Holland. Since then, lives in Zurich, where she works as independent choreographer.

Her work poses questions on the routines and patterns of contemporary life. Her interest lies in revisiting the taken-for-granted assumptions that rule social behaviour and that shape our model of communication. She has collaborated with the artists Martin Schick, Kroot Juurak, Simone Aughterlony, Nicolas Galeazzi and Marina Belobrovaja. She has directed : “Multiverse” (2007), “Excuse me please could you choreograph me” (2007-10), “Do what you see/ See what you do” (2009) and “Title” (ZKB Forderprice 2009), in coolaboration with Martin Schick. She has recently premiered “CMMN SNS PRCT“, a new coolaboration with Martin Schick at Freischwimmer Festival, Berlin.