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CURRENT

 

2024

SYDNEY   July 8 -13

HELSINKI   October 12 - 13

BASEL   October 19 - 20

STUTTGART   November 1 - 2

MALMÖ   November 5 - 8

 

* Preview for 2025  

PARIS   April 7 - 11

* taught in French / enseigné en français

Could dancing start a riot?

From the raw felt mush of the material body, to her particularly articulated and playful compositional tools, how do we fire up the art-making engine whilst sinking into those self-centred human-body sensations? How do we crash the car while resting on the sofa, share it all with an audience and enjoy the ride?

In these 2024 workshops Rosalind will share her relentlessly attentive practice of live composition for performance.

WORKSHOPS - Background (brief)

Drawing on principles and practical tools from her own dance-making methodology, Ros's workshops offer structures to ‘do it yourself’. Ways to accommodate the bodily condition one finds oneself in, and the flesh, breath, weight, edges or contents of the body, as primary material for dancing. Ways to guide sensation into dancing by bringing it into relationship with compositional tools and imaginative/fictive frameworks. Her work supports dance artists to develop an embodied practice, guide themselves as independent creative agents and take pleasure in the challenges of working alone.

 

WORKSHOPS - Background (extended)

Rosalind Crisp's dance methodology could be called choreographic improvisation. It is a dynamic set of principles and practical tools that dancers can use to pay attention to the act of dancing - making dance in real-time, with and from the materiality of their own bodies.

 

The body is 'prepared' with a focus on breath, weight and sensation. Held tension and schematic patterns are undone and attention is brought to the materiality of the body itself. Compositional choices (textures, tones, images, body parts... ) and choreographic improvisation tools and parameters guide the dancer, for example, initiating from one surface of the body at a time. Awareness includes the whole body and is simultaneously localised, enabling the dancer to initiate from any part of the body at any time – parts that may be anatomically divided or fictitiously separated. Processes like flow, delay and rupture also assist the dancer to detach from presenting 'moves' and focus her attention on the continual emergence of, and shaping of the dance, in a shared and porous relationship with her audience.

 

Crisp's practice undoes the hegemony of movement patterns inscribed in dancers' bodies. She skills dancers to understand the presence of these histories in their bodies and how to continually renegotiate them in the dancing. Her tools are constantly evolving, constituting a rigorous and recognisable model for artistic self-learning. Her workshops offer processes by which dancers may guide themselves as independent creative agents.

 

Advanced Research Labs

In her Advanced Labs Rosalind Crisp shares deeper concerns, processes & questions arising from her artistic practice. She works with the body as a generative and intra-subjective environment in perpetual dialogue with its own choreographer, and deals with the possibility of art revealing processes instead of static entities.

 

Examples of areas explored in Advanced Labs are:
undoing dance from the hegemony of history  /  attention flow, lag & rupture  /  embodied imagination & the undomesticated body  /  plunging into the vast vat of bodily materials  /  picking over the rubble of dance's failed obsession with movements - through dancing  /  material body meets fictional body  /  why dancers move so much and other troubles with dance…

 

For over thirty years Rosalind Crisp has been dancing with and from the materiality of her body - the heavy weights that are continually present (gravity, flesh, breath, contents...) and the ephemerals (attention, imagination, and how things are constantly changing).

 

Her Advanced Labs offer dancers and dancer/choreographers who are familiar with her choreographic improvisation method, the artistic support for sustaining a long-term practice as an artist.

PREVIOUS

2023

 

November 18 - 19

Research lab, info contact Ros at Orbost Studio for Dance Research

October 21 - 22

Sydney

ReadyMade Works

 

 

May 23 - 26

Malmö, Sweden

 

May 17 - 18

onCe festival

Freiburg, Germany

 

 

April 17 - 21

London (on-line)

March 2 - 5

South Korea 

Feb 7 - 10

Melbourne

 

 

2022

 

Dec 5 - 9

Paris

 

 

Nov 28 - Dec 2

Berlin

Nov 11 - 13

Helsinki

Nov 3 - 6

Stuttgart

March 28 - 31

Research lab on-line

contact Omeo Dance

 

SOLO COACHING 

available on-line

contact Omeo Dance

2021

SEPTEMBER 13  - 16

HAMU Prague

Academy Performing Arts 

on-line

 

MARCH 22 - 26

Atelier de Paris

on-line

 

 

MARCH 15 - 19
Lucy Guerin XYZ studio MELBOURNE

 

 

FEBRUARY 22 – 25
Advanced Lab on-line
mornings EU/evenings AU
contact Omeo Dance

 

 

FEBRUARY 15 –18
Workshop on-line

Tanzfabrik Berlin

 

 

JANUARY 4 - 7

Workshop on-line

Tanzfabrik Berlin

2020


OCTOBER 5, 7, 9

Workshop on-line

100 ways to pull your finger out

Lucy Guerin Inc.

* CANCELLED due to COVID 19

May 23 - 24

BRUSSELS  (Belgium)

swimming with the chaos

TicTac

* CANCELLED due to COVID 19

APRIL 8 - 12  

ORBOST  (VIC, Australia)

LAB - what can dance do?

email Omeo Dance

 

* CANCELLED due to COVID 19

MARCH 28 - APRIL 1

MELBOURNE

swimming with the chaos

Dancehouse

 

 

JANUARY 2 - 3

BERLIN

Tanzfabrik

 

2019

 

DECEMBER 2 - 3
DUBLIN 
(Ireland)

Dance Ireland

NOVEMBER 18 - 22
PARIS

Atelier de Paris

NOVEMBER 9 - 10
CARDIFF
(Wales, UK)

GroundWorkPro

NOVEMBER 5 - 6
FREIBURG
(Germany)

ONCE festival

NOVEMBER 2 - 3
BASEL
(Switzerland)

email Charlotte Böttiger

JULY 19 - 22
SYDNEY

ReadyMade Works

 

 

FEBRUARY 25 – MARCH 1
PARIS

 


Atelier de Paris – Carolyn Carlson 


 


FEBRUARY 23 – 24
LONDON

Independent Dance
 


FEBRUARY 15
LIMERICK (Ireland)

Dance Limerick
 


FEBRUARY 4 – 7
MALMÖ (Sweden)

Dans Centrum Syd
 


JANUARY 27 – FEBRUARY 1
POZNAN (Poland)

Advanced Lab
with Rosalind Crisp & Andrew Morrish
Art Stations Foundation

 


JANUARY 12
BOUXVILLER (France)

Théâtre du Marché aux Grains
 


JANUARY 2 – 6
BERLIN

Advanced Lab with Rosalind Crisp
Uferstudios

 

2018


DECEMBER 27 – 30
BERLIN

Tanzfabrik


DECEMBER 2
ÖREBRO (Sweden)

Theatre Martin Mutter

 

Past Workshops & Labs

Since establishing Omeo Dance studio in Sydney in 1996, Rosalind Crisp has been teaching her method in:

Australia
Omeo Dance studio Sydney / Critical Path Sydney / ReadyMadeWorks Sydney / Dancehouse Melbourne / VCA University of Melbourne / QUT Brisbane / STRUT Perth / Orbost Mechanics Institute Victoria / Tathra NSW.

France
Centre de Développement Chorégraphique National (CDCN) Atelier de Paris – Carolyn Carlson / CDCN du Val de Marne / CDCN de Grenoble / Centre national de la danse Paris / Centre Chorégraphique National (CCN) de Franche-Comté à Belfort / CCN de Grenoble / CCN de Roubaix Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Micadanses Paris / Menagerie de Verre Paris / Le Gymnase Roubaix-Lille.

Berlin
Tanzfabrik / LaborGras / Uferstudios / ImproXchange

Europe
Culture of Change Zagreb Croatia / Art Stations Foundation Poznan Poland / Dance Limerick Ireland / IndependentDance London / The Workroom Glasgow /  London Contemporary Dance School / Trinity Laban London / Zodiak Helsinki / Tanzhaus Zurich /  Trois C-L Luxembourg / Les Rencentres Professionels Geneva.

.... to name a few

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