1st BEAR Workshop Fest

In the spirit of shared creativity is more creativity we invite you to the 1st Bear Workshop Fest to get to know our recent artists in residence and their practices. Each of them will give a workshop or open practice which is inspired by their current work and/or experiences. Participants therefore can choose out of 8 very distinct offers that involve practices from dance, to body explorations to theory driven encounters. We highly encourage participants to seize the opportunity to join more than one workshop to explore different practices. This festival after all is meant for connecting, discussing and sharing. As always at Bears in the Park all workshops are free of charge. For further connecting there will be a pay-as-you-wish bar in our kitchen area from 6pm on.

Please register upfront with name(s) of workshop(s) you would like to attend here: charlotte.bastam@gmail.com

With:

Agnes bCanario and Golbon Moltaji “Sadis-Rose Calaboca”
Sebastian Berger “Object Manipulation – an introduction”
Flora Boros “Individual exploration of different movement qualities”
Daphna Horenczyk “Moving in times of uncertainty”
Jeanne Lakits “Undierctional”
Johanna Nielson & Agnes Schneidewind “they trollen forth. playing with the sensuous body”
Max Oravin “How to fill a room with sound: Some creative strategies for working with time, space and memory”
Elisabeth Ward “An Abstraction on Simone Forti’s News Animations”

Further info:
8th of May 2022
Workshops from 11-19h
At: Kempelengasse 1/ Bauteil 1 / ground floor/ 1100 Wien

Water and some little snacks will be provided. As the Fest will be taking place on Sunday we recommend to bring something for lunch.

Timetable:

11-13H
Sebastian Berger
“Object Manipulation -an introduction”

In this workshop we will approach objects and learn about fundamental ideas of modern object manipulation. An introduction of general ideas on how to manipulate objects, learning to listen to their movement qualities and forming a base of non verbal communication with them. In the first part we will encouter these ideas with basic geometric objects that i will provide. In the secound part we will experiment together with daily objects. You are invited to bring any objects of your choice along. It can be a pair of shoes, a newspaper, a broom, anything you feel a curiosity about.
Level: Open to everybody. No skills required.
Language: English, German is optional.
www.objektmanipulation.at
www.instagram.com/sebastian.berger.staff.manip

11-13h
Flora Boros
“LOOP”

The workshop focuses on individual exploration of different movement qualities through the application of certain game theoretical methods. Game theory, a mathematical model, will support us in diverse improvisational tasks to find different movement qualities. We’ll play with conscious and unconscious movements and eventually end up in a loop.
Level: open to all levels
Language: English

Lunch Break 13-14H

14 -16H
Johanna Nielson & Agnes Schneidewind
“they trollen forth. playing with the sensuous body”

„We, the readers or listeners, are crucial to the text, story or song becoming powerful. We are not impartial observers; we are a fundamental part of the circuitry” (Kae Tempest) My body is a medium through which I perceive and read the world. How can I prepare and access my body to read the image that moves me? What speaks back? In this workshop we will share our practices of looking and reading with the sensuous body. We apply tools such as authentic movement, dreaming, and card games. We warm up the experiential and imaginary bodies, and dance with Tarot cards. Becoming playful witnesses and poetic readers. Level: Open Language: German & English (depending on the participants)

14 -16H
Daphna Horenczyk
“Moving in times of uncertainty”

I would like to invite artists and thinkers for a few movement exercises in the search for strategies of dealing with the unknown, void, uncertainty, the in between. What is the role of the body in times of uncertainty? What kind of movement helps us to feel safe?
Level: This workshop is designated for artists and thinkers from any medium who have some experience with body work / movement.
Language: English

14 -16
Elisabeth Ward
“An Abstraction on Simone Forti’s News Animations”

In the early 2000’s I took a workshop with Simone Forti on her News Animation practice and then promptly forgot about it. In the Spring of 2020 “News Animations” came back to me like a mantra. My way of being with her practice looked nothing like what we did together an Eden’s Expressway 20 years before and yet it I found so more to explore.For this time together let’s sit with, settle with, move through all the News that comes at us.
Level: Open
Language: English

16-18H
Jeanne Lakits
“Undierctional”

« we share all the roads and we finally see that none of them matters » Bohm, On Dialogue
My artistic research focuses on a directionless body when visualization is not possible and imagination becomes a false instrument. « Undierctional » is an exercise in working to undermine the production of image in dance. The focus of the workshop is to develop an available body - a body of possibles - rather than a body of representation. The practice deals with absurd tasks and problems, and seeks to enter a state of confusion with high awareness. By questioning our defined position in space and time, my research concerns the experience that a being has on reality, a body-mind engaged in a certain problem. Working with absurdity and paradox, the aestheticism, the form and the achievement do not matter to my work.” This moment of practice tries to remain a place of questions rather than answers.
Level: The class is open to any dancer with a strong physical awareness, curious and willing to work intensively in an intelligent way.
Language: English

16-18H
Agnes bCanario and Golbon Moltaji
“Sadis-Rose Calaboca”

In this workshop Agnes bCanario and Golbon Moltaji, share current research for ‘Sadis-Rose Calaboca’ - a work-in-progress combining elements of darker soundscapes and sensual subjectivity, through performative strategies to reckon with sex and death, fear and desire. By exploring methods of connecting with the fluid body, allowing a deeper glimpse into our subconscious, archetypal and primary movement patterns, and perhaps witnessing a shifting spacial and social sense. As we delve further, we may evoke “emo-drag” personas, building a communal ritualistic ‘occasion’, in which to express porous and liquid individual + collective fantasies/sensibilities; of depth, desire, multiplicity in gender, sensuality, ego and sacrifice. Level: Open Language: English and potentially Farsi

17-19H
Max Oravin
“How to fill a room with sound: Some creative strategies for working with time, space and memory”

What frequencies can we use to establish a room? What rhythms can shape our perception of time and of each other? And how can sounds be transformed into memories that will touch us with an emotional force? In his workshop, sound artist and current Huggy Bears resident Oravin will share some creative sonic strategies for playing with our perception of space, time, body, memory, and community.
Level: The workshop is open for everyone with an interest in sound and movement. No prior experience is required! Language:
English and potentially German
IMPORTANT: The workshop will have to use louder music/sounds at times!

From 18H
Pay-as-you-wish bar and get-together in the Bear Kitchen