choreo-photo-graphy | 2009

the dancers perspective in the larger choreographic picture through photography

What do you see when you look at a dance? What do dancers see when
they look at an image?  This workshop is a journey in photography for
contemporary dancers and choreographers that focuses on their ability
to articulate perception:  how the naked eye frames, selects, and
understands information from the visual field. The workshop will mix
dialogue and photographic action/activity. Participants will look at
photographs and discus them. We will also engage in concrete spatial
exercises using cameras to develop approaches to choreographic
organization.  By exploring the laws of composition that photography
deals with, dancers will not only gain a sense of organization of the
two-dimensional image frame, but also of three-dimensional space.
While photos will be produced, the process of getting there will be
more important than the photos as objects.

This workshop has been produced already in different contexts:
New York (movement research), Vienna (tanzquartier), Mexico (Prisma
forum), Oslo (Rom for Dans) and Berlin (Masters progam in
choreography at the Co-operative Dance Education Centre - Pilot Project
Tanzplan Berlin), Hamburg (K3-Zentrum für Choreographie) and Dublin (Dance Ireland).