b12 summer | main event
research or die.
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b12 summer main event
— // —location: eden***** studios
Oleg Stepanov
choreographer | dance researcher | film and movement director
change your mind. say yes.
How to allow new ideas to be born and become things we could never even imagine? How to let go of what’s unnecessary? How to accept habits? How to change habits? how to open up to the field of potentiality? How to unleash the potential? for 6 days in July, I suggest diving into a constantly changing river of ideas, events and principles, in a playful, improvisational and discursive space. we will overwhelm the mind and body with information, sensations, disputes and insights, which may forever change how we perceive ourselves and our creativity. we're going to be a room of many unique brains that will shape a new reality together. the form it will take will depend on us, and on something else that is unknown and hard to describe in words. say yes. We possess such flexible instruments as our brain and body, which allow us to create worlds. Of course, everything is not so simple or easy to master, and not everything is at our disposal, but the good thing is that there is always something out of the box to which we didn’t pay attention. dancing? yes. singing? yes. making a scene? yes. making an installation? yes. creating a chorus of coughs? why not? not making anything? oh, yes. leaving the studio and making a performance on a train? yes, please. even if we make nonsense, even if we get stuck, so what? there’s always a way out. there’s always a deviation that leads to something that we didn’t know was possible. trust me. say yes.
the description reflects an artist’s idea which was developed at the time it was submitted to b12. it may have changed by the time the workshop or the performance project is starting. please stay flexible. thank you!
biography
Oleg Stepanov is a dance artist, choreographer, film and music maker. he was Born in the Urals, Russia, and After graduating from the Physics Department of the Ural University, Oleg devoted himself to art-making. oleg danced at Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Gothenburg Dance Company, Theater Basel, and Provincial Dances Theatre. He collaborated with renowned choreographers such as Dimitris Papaioannou, Saburo Teshigawara, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Alan Lucien Oyen, Richard Siegal, Constanza Macras, Bobbi Jene Smith, Fabrice Mazliah, Uri Ivgi & Johan Greben, tatiana baganova. In 2023 Oleg’s work in film involved choreographing for director Tom Tykwer’s film, The Light, and directing numerous shorts. In 2024 oleg's short film, A moth on a bomb, won a prize at New York Tri-State International Short Film Festival, and was officially selected for Tokyo & Seoul's International Short Film Festivals. He is currently collaborating as a choreographer with film director Alla Kovgan on her next full-length dance film. Oleg's choreographic language and method is based on the observation of the body in space and space in the body. he sees the movement as a synthesis between the architecture and biomechanics of the body and a sensorial inner journey. In his creative work, it’s important for Oleg to assume and envision that the body is endowed with qualities of the subject and the object, simultaneously, and that it exists in spacetime among pure potentialities and a multitude of choices.
please be aware of our early bird special offer for this workshop! you can apply for this offer up until the 24th of march 2025. after the 24th the regular workshop fee applies. applications are accepted up until one day before the workshops starts.
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