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summer | main event
running from the 1st to the 28th of july 2024
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b12 summer main event
— // —location: eden***** studios
Reut Shemesh
founder of reut shemesh dance group
Trust and Symmetry
In this workshop, I will share with you my current research, Inventory of choreographic choices; a pool of tools, ways of working, and inspirations that I have accumulated over the years. the inventory was written together with the dramaturg, Matthias Quabbe. This toolbox allows one to analyse, in-depth, the intuition behind artistic choices, and to create a compass in daily practice. During the workshop, I’ll introduce you to a few of these tools, and translate them into short choreographic actions. First, by using tasks as in improvisation sessions and later transforming them into a short movement sequence. In the second part of the workshop, you will be invited to create your own tools and compose them into a short performance. In the third and last part of the workshop, you will be invited to use tools created by your colleagues that inspired you. These borrowed tools will then become the basis of your own movement composition. by the end of the workshop, we will create a few short pieces.
please be aware of our early bird special offer for this workshop! you can apply for this offer up until the 24th of march 2024. after the 24th the regular workshop fee applies. applications are accepted up until one day before the workshops starts.
biography
Reut Shemesh is a choreographer and media artist from Israel, based in Cologne, who is currently funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the category ‘Spitzenförderung’ - the state’s top level dance funding programme. Her pieces and films have been shown at Art Cologne, Tanzplattform, Impulse Theatre Festival, tanzhaus nrw, HELLERAU in Dresden, the Transition Video Art Festival in Maastricht and Kampnagel in Hamburg, among others. Guest performances have taken her to the Netherlands, Slovakia, Singapore, Israel and the USA. She created commissioned works for the Oberhausen Theatre (Bad Mothers, 2022) and the Maslool School in Tel Aviv, and holds regular lectures at universities and dance institutions in the region and abroad. Currently, ULTRA, a co-creation with the Belgian production house fABULEUS is touring through several European cities. This year she will also celebrate the premiere of the large-scale commissioned production ESTHER in Potsdam, Munich, Hamburg and Dresden. Being a woman, an artist, a mother, and an immigrant, she often interlaces her own lived experiences into her work.
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