Dance workshop with Matej Kejžar, 3 - 17 October 2022
Project Creative Bodies in Movement is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union under the European Social Fund.
The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union under the European Social Fund.
Projekt Kreativna telesa v gibanju sofinancirata Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije ter Evropska unija iz Evropskega socialnega sklada.
Call for participants
The Pekinpah Association is inviting participants to enroll in the second part of the dance and performance program, carried out within the project Creative Bodies in Movement and mentored by the established dancer and choreographer Matej Kejžar.
The workshop will be taking place from 3 to 17 October 2022, every working day from 12 to 4 pm at AFS France Marolt on Dunajska cesta 56, Ljubljana.
The project Creative Bodies in Movement is an initiative primarily intended for migrants, but also for other young enthusiasts from Slovenia, for whom the Pekinpah has prepared a year-round series of educational programs in the field of performing arts. At the workshops, participants will gain the knowledge and skills needed to perform stage work with the help of established mentors. The project as a whole ends in February 2023, when the participants will publicly present their newly acquired knowledge.
Who is it for?
Migrants - young adults and adults (15+) - who moved to Slovenia and are interested in developing their creative skills, would enjoy dancing and expressing themselves through dance, and are eager to meet new people and spread their network of personal and professional contacts.
What can you get from this?
If you are an artist, building up your skills in the workshop will increase the opportunities of employment in Slovenia, in the field of performing arts. If you are not experienced in dance, you’ll learn how and manage to express yourself through dance, enjoy and socialise with different people. In both cases, you’ll meet and work with renowned, amazing artists, spread horizons, make new friends and have great fun while learning and strengthening intercultural dialogue on the way.
As the participant, you will:
- develop the skills to design and develop creative ideas - Creativity is the ability to create new ideas, concepts or solutions to a problem; it is a method to establish new connections between existing ideas or concepts
- gain experience in teamwork and collaborative skills, as a part of multicultural community/group
- improve your self-awareness skills and increase your proactivity and self-confidence for public presentation such as job interviews and socialising events
- spread your network of contacts
- have opportunity to be part of the public event with your own project
- get special individual counselling, which can help you with new job opportunities
Overview of the activities:
- learning the creative methods used in performing arts contexts or develop your existing skills
- focus on the deconstruction and re-construction of the technical structure, explore social and emotional range of dance
- try to go beyond rigid models and expose the more complex ways in which the forces of attraction and repulsion are used in the context of stage presence - and, above all, try to answer the question: what can choreography be in this sense, and what can determine it?
- have the opportunity to be engaged in preparation for and production of the public presentation, which will close the project on 28 February 2023.
About the workshop
Magnetic Field
The workshop, entitled Magnetic Field, is based on metaphorical parallels that can be drawn between the earth's magnetic field and the body of the subject or dancer. The earth's magnetic field is a constant that generates various forces - and the dancer's body is also subject to determinants that direct it in infinite possibilities of movement; stage movement, like magnetism, is determined by the forces of attraction and repulsion, charm and rejection.
Human beings are brilliant choreographers in their everyday lives, submitting to various forms of behaviour through their domestic presence, be it religion, etiquette, various rules and laws... In fact, the entire human existence is choreographed in a certain way and often seduced by the binary relations between the positive and the negative.
The concept of this workshop is based on these assumptions. Binary models, when derived from the principle of the individual subject, often turn out to be completely ossified and rigid models. In this workshop, the participants and the mentor will try to go beyond such models and expose the more complex ways in which the forces of attraction and repulsion are used in the context of stage presence - and, above all, they will try to answer the question: what can choreography be in this sense, and what can determine it?
As Kejžar says, in order to truly experiment with dance, it is necessary to go beyond rigid binary models that reflect existing structures of power and domination; it is necessary to invent ways of moving that reflect different ways of thinking and acting of a modern person. The workshop will thus be permeated by the mentor's otherwise creative agenda, which focuses on the deconstruction and re-construction of the technical structure, social and emotional range of dance: on the one hand, it evokes existing forms of social interaction and socialising, and on the other, it conceives of some kind of utopian socio-organisational projects of the future.
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About the mentor
Matej Kejžar graduated from Amsterdam’s SNDO and Brussels’ X-Group P.A.R.T.S. and was an exchange student at the Trisha Brown in New York. After finishing his studies, he created a number of critically acclaimed choreographies in Slovenia. In 2007, Kejžar moved to Brussels where he worked with Rosas (The Song, Cesena) and collaborated with Boris Charmatz on the 20 Dancers for the XX Century. In 2010 he started developing his unique choreographic language, creating various pieces around the globe with the performance Rave commissioned by the Avignon Theatre Festival. In recent years Kejžar has been working on a series of researches into the relationship between body and digitalization. He has been the initiator and artistic director of Spider festival - festival of radical bodies. Kejžar teaches with SNDO, SEAD, P.A.R.T.S., TSEH, ImpulsTanz, Ultima vez and Rosas.
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Usposabljanje na področju plesa in performativnosti
Poziv za udeležence
Objavljamo poziv za udeležbo na drugem delu usposabljanja na področju plesa in performativnosti, ki bo v sklopu celoletnega izobraževalnega projekta Kreativna telesa v gibanju potekal pod mentorsko taktirko priznanega slovenskega plesalca in koreografa Mateja Kejžarja.
40-urno usposabljanje, namenjeno priseljencem in pripadnikom ranljivih skupin, bo med 3. in 17. oktobrom 2022 potekalo v prostorih AFS France Marolt na Dunajski cesti 56 v Ljubljani, vsak delovni dan med 12. in 16. uro. Prijave so obvezne (kontakti spodaj).
Projekt Kreativna telesa v gibanju je pobuda, prvenstveno namenjena priseljencem, a tudi drugim mladim entuziastom, za katere smo v Društvu Pekinpah pripravili celoletni niz izobraževalnih programov s področja uprizoritvenih umetnosti. Na delavnicah bodo udeleženci ob pomoči uveljavljenih mentorjev pridobili znanja in veščine, potrebne za izvedbo scenskega dela. Projekt se zaključuje februarja 2023, ko bodo udeleženci tudi javno predstavili svoje novo pridobljeno znanje.
Komu je usposabljanje namenjeno?
Migrantom – starejšim od 15. let oziroma odraslim – ki so se preselili v Slovenijo in jih zanima razvoj lastnih kreativnih veščin. Program je namenjen vsem tistim, ki uživajo v plesu ali se z njim izražajo, in ki si obenem želijo novih poznanstev ter bi tako radi razširili svojo mrežo osebnih in profesionalnih stikov.
Kaj lahko s tem pridobiš?
Kot umetniku oziroma umetnici ti bo izpopolnjevanje na delavnicah zagotovo povečalo zaposlitvene možnosti na področju performativnih umetnosti v Sloveniji. Če na področju plesa še nimaš večjih izkušenj, se boš na usposabljanju lahko priučil/-a izražanja s pomočjo plesa, obenem pa užival/-a pri navezovanju novih socialnih stikov. V vsakem primeru te čaka vrsta novih priložnosti za sodelovanje s prepoznavnimi in odličnimi ustvarjalci; udeležba v programu ti bo nedvomno razširila obzorja, obenem pa boš lahko med izobraževanjem spoznal/-a nove prijatelje in tako še okrepil/-a medkulturni dialog in povezave.
S sodelovanjem v programu usposabljanja boš lahko:
- razvijal/-a veščine zasnove in nadgradnje novih kreativnih idej. Kreativnost je zmožnost udejanjanja novih idej, konceptov in rešitev; hkrati je tudi metoda za ustvarjanje novih povezav med že obstoječimi idejami in koncepti.
- pridobil/-a dragocene izkušnje timskega dela in obenem, kot del multikulturne skupine, razvijal/-a veščine sodelovanja
- izboljšal/-a veščine samozavedanja, obenem pa okrepil/-a tudi lastno proaktivno držo in samozavest, potrebno za socializacijo ali denimo razgovore za službo
- razširil/-a mrežo poznanstev
- dobil/-a priložnost za sodelovanje z lastnim projektom pri javnem kulturnem dogodku
- izkoristil/-a individualna svetovanja, ki ti bodo pomagala pri novih zaposlitvenih priložnostih.
Pregled aktivnosti:
- spoznavanje kreativnih metod, ki se jih uporablja v kontekstu performativnih umetnosti, ter nadaljno razvijanje lastnih veščin
- osredotočenje na dekonstrukcijo in vnovično izgradnjo tehnične strukture plesa ter raziskovanje njegovega socialnega in čustvenega dometa
- prestopanje meja rigidnih modelov in razgaljanje kompleksnih načinov, na katere se sile privlačnosti in odbojnosti izrabljajo v kontekstu odrske prezence – predvsem pa iskanje odgovora na vprašanje: kaj je v tem smislu koreografija in kaj vse jo določa?
- angažma pri pripravah ter produkciji novega odrskega dela, s katerim se projekt usposabljanja 28. februarja 2023 tudi uradno zaključuje.
O delavnici
Magnetno polje
Delavnica, poimenovana Magnetno polje, sloni na metaforičnih paralelah, ki jih lahko potegnemo med zemeljskim magnetnim poljem in telesom subjekta oziroma plesalca. Zemeljsko magnetno polje predstavlja konstanto, ki ustvarja različne sile – prav tako pa je tudi plesalčevo telo podvrženo determinantam, ki ga usmerjajo pri neskončnih možnostih gibanja; odrsko gibanje je, podobno kot magnetizem, določeno s silami privlačnosti in odbojnosti, šarma in zavrnitve.
Človeška bitja so v vsakdanjem življenju sijajni koreografi, ki se skozi svojo tuzemsko prezenco podrejajo različnim vedenjskim obrazcem, naj si bo to religija, bonton, različna pravila in zakoni … Pravzaprav je celotna človeška eksistenca na nek način koreografirana in pogosto zvedena na binarna razmerja med pozitivnim in negativnim.
Iz tovrstnih predpostavk izhaja koncept tokratne delavnice plesa in performativnosti. Binarni modeli se namreč, kadar jih zvedemo na princip delovanja posamičnega subjekta, pogosto izkažejo za povsem okostenele in rigidne modele. Na delavnici bodo udeleženci skupaj z mentorjem poskušali preseči tovrstne vzorce ter izpostaviti bolj kompleksne načine sil privlačnosti in odbojnosti v kontekstu odrske prezence – predvsem pa bodo skušali odgovoriti na vprašanje: kakšna je lahko v tem smislu koreografija in kaj vse jo lahko določa?
Kot pravi Kejžar, je za resnično eksperimentiranje s plesom potrebno preseči toge binarne modele, v katerih odsevajo obstoječe strukture moči in dominacije; potrebno je iznajti takšne načine gibanja, ki odražajo drugačne načine mišljenja in delovanja sodobnega človeka. Delavnica bo tako prežeta z mentorjevo siceršnjo ustvarjalno agendo, ki se osredotoča na dekonstrukcijo in ponovno konstrukcijo tehnične strukture, socialnega in emocionalnega dometa plesa: slednji tako na eni strani evocira obstoječe oblike socialnih interakcij in druženja, na drugi pa osmišlja nekakšne utopične socialno-organizacijske projekte prihodnosti.
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O mentorju
Matej Kejžar je diplomant SNDO, izobraževal pa se je še na bruseljski šoli P.A.R.T.S. v X-group in pri Trisha Brown Dance Company v New Yorku. Na začetku kariere je ustvaril številne odmevne predstave. Leta 2008 se je priključil plesnemu kolektivu Rosas v Bruslju, s katerim je sodeloval štiri leta (The Song, Cesena). Od leta 2011 razvija odločen avtorski opus in deluje med Brusljem in Ljubljano. Predstava Rave je bila premierno uprizorjena na Avignonskem festivalu, z odličnimi kritičnimi odzivi. Kejžar je programski vodja mednarodnih festivalov Spider, pedagog pri SNDO, SEAD, P.A.R.T.S., TSEH, ImpulsTanz, Ultima vez in Rosas. Poleg slovenskih produkcij redno ustvarja predstave po celem svetu (Indija, Singapur, Brazilija). Med drugim je sodeloval tudi pri projektu francoskega koreografa Borisa Charmatza pri projektu 20 Dancers for the XX Century.
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