SPACE TO MOVE WITH ANGUS BALBERNIE
BIOGRAPHY
Angus Balbernie has created and directed over 60 dance and performance pieces in Europe, the USA, Canada, South America and South Korea. He teaches directing, physical composition and choreography internationally. He is on the staff of the DanceMakers department of the Dance Academy of Arnhem, and is an associate lecturer at The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance and Dartington College of Arts. He has been a guest artist and teacher at The European Dance Development Centre for 10 years, and in 2006 was Guest Professor of Choreography at The Korean National University of the Arts. He has been nominated for an Isadora Duncan award in the USA, and the Kolner Tanz Prize. He is currently Associate Artist at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol.
WORKSHOP CONTENT
This workshop will look at composition through the body, the focusing of compositional and choreographic tools, and the
shaping of material.
"We make work through our own bodies, the bodies around us, and the formal and imaginative elements that support these active
investigations. I'm proposing that we can see in 5 ways, move in 5 ways, compose in 5 layers, and choreograph in a rich
personal combination of these."
"I'd also like especially to explore the proposition that 'the other' has 5 surfaces!"
"'The other' is something about creating a physically and perceptually flexible set of internal and external foci, a form of
being 'something else'. It's about moving, seeing, thinking, creating and touching, as a body, an artist, and as a receptive
'object-in-landscape'."
"We will begin by working with the surfaces of seeing and being body.
What channels do we engage through? What is around us to engage with?
If this landscape is grounded, flexible and detailed, can we be too?
By investigating visual, perceptual and tactile channels, can we make bodies of instant memory that contain our selves and
stories, but stay flexible to the immediate?"
"Over the 3 days the workshop will move between structured input, compositional play, personal and group activity and making
and sharing work. We might even ignite the other, the corresponding voices that surround us!"
The workshop will end with a showing of material.
To book a place, complete the booking form and return with payment to MDI's office. For further information, contact Rachel Rogers on 0151 708 8810 or email at info@mdi.org.uk
