CHOREO-GRAPHIC FIGURES. DEVIATIONS FROM THE LINE
5 August 2014: 15:00 - 19:00
METHOD LAB OPENING I: WHAT IF?
ImPulsTanz Festival, Vienna, Austria
Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Emma Cocker
at Probebühne des Schauspielhauses, Rechte Wienzeile 73 (backyard),
1050 Vienna, Austria.
During the ImpulsTanz Festival Gansterer, Greil and Cocker have been engaged in the residency Method Lab I, supported by the input of Alex Arteaga and Lilia Mestre. Method Lab I focuses on the sharing of practice and working methods between the key researchers, in order that set disciplinary ways of operating might gradually become undisciplined, unlearnt, undone, reversed, upturned by experimenting between the lines of drawing, choreography, and writing. This phase is generative: the intent is towards experimental production, performed in subjunctive key of what if. Rather than asking: What is drawing, what is choreography, what is writing? this research asks what if these definitions are stretched? How elastic can these terms and practices be made?
Opening Event Schedule: 5 August 2014: 15:00 - 19:00
15.00: The Method Lab will be open to the public, and the key researchers available to informally discuss the project.
16.00: A Live Exploration
Processes and approaches developed during the Method Lab will be presented through a Live Exploration in order to make visible various intensities of the research process through the re-visitation of key moments of shared enquiry.
The Live Exploration will be followed by an opportunity for discussion around the issues and questions emerging within the Method Lab.
18.00: The Method Lab will remain open to the public, with refreshments provided.
Choreo-graphic Figures. Deviations from the Line is an interdisciplinary research collaboration involving artist-performer Nikolaus Gansterer, dancer-choreographer Mariella Greil and artist-writer Emma Cocker for investigating those forms of thinking-feeling-knowing produced within collaborative exchange, between the lines
of drawing, choreography and writing. The project unfolds through a series of intensive Method Labs where the key researchers and invited guests come together geographically in one place to practice thinking- moving relationally and to develop singular and shareable forms of practice-as-research.