From Abroad Workshops
From Abroad Workshops
International dance artists are returning to Melbourne/ Naarm and we’d love for you to connect with them!
Dancehouse’s From Abroad Workshops are offered by visiting international artists from Dancehouse who come strongly recommended by your Australian peers and offer you a way to meet visiting artists, and to exchange with them, their practices, and ideas.
Dancehouse sends emails directly to Members 2-4 weeks in advance of Workshops to take registrations.
From Abroad Workshops are absolutely FREE to Dancehouse Members or $30 for Non-Members.
2024 From Abroad Workshops
Stillness in Performing
Still Standing is a series of works that have developed out of an interest in the embodied experience of stillness. The series consists of 4 multi-modal works and began in 2018. The series explores the implications of stillness as an embodied experience. Each new work carries traces of the works that have been made before and engages with the ideas that: stillness is simple but not necessarily easy; stillness is disruption; stillness is an experience that is available and accessible to anyone. This workshop will draw from Buddhist meditation practices and explore the role of stillness is in performance. Stillness will be used as a modality to develop heightened performative presence, attention to the inner landscape of the performer, and attuning to the lager collective including ensemble and audience.
Read the Stillness Manifesto here.
2023 From Abroad Workshops
The Membrane Project
Workshop with Tina Tarpgaard, Recoil Performance Group (Denmark)
/ recommended by Govin Reuben & Ashleigh Musk
10am-12pm, Friday 17 November, Upstairs Studio
Visiting artist Tina Tarpgaard offers a workshop which is part presentation, part movement workshop. It will begin with a short visual presentation of THE MEMBRANE PROJECT trilogy, and the concepts behind it.
MASS-bloom explorations, currently presented at Dancehouse 16-18 November, is the second part of THE MEMBRANE PROJECT and is a choreographic installation involving one human performer and thousands of co-performing mealworms.
Following the presentation will be a movement workshop based on the choreographic scores involved in MASS-bloom explorations and the element of performing slowness. At the end of the workshop, there is time for questions and discussions on the subject of interspecies relations and bioperformativity on stage.
The Voice That Touches Also Has a Skin
Workshop with Veza Fernandez (Austria)
/ recommended by Alice Heyward
6-9pm, Tuesday 13 June, Sylvia Staehli Theatre
A workshop exploring voice from Veza Fernandez.
In this workshop we explore the sensuous voice as a listening organ. A bodily voice that moves beyond the mouth and the throat to connect and make sense of different resonant surfaces like walls, floors and body parts. Through a series of vocal and physical visualising exercises, I will teach how to create sonic spaces between the insides of our bodies and the space around and between us. This will allow us to train a listening through sounding in which the voice gets shaped through what it encounters and imagines. The sensuous voice is the ultimate manifestation of corporeality, pouring the visceral into manifestation. Be ready to feel the voice shaping and exiting your body in never ending screams, moans, sighs. To not know who is sounding you and to feel the power that the voice releases.
From 31 May, Dancehouse is hosting visiting Spanish-Austrian artist Veza Fernandez before they travel to Dark MOFO.