COLLECTIVE MAKERS LAB
Explore your creativity through an interdisciplinary arts approach & learn strategies to expand your movement making.
We will ask choreographic questions figuring them out in the doing together.We will play with tools to create performance worlds & environments, including scores, improvisation & composition.Explore working with painting poetry & image, rhythm, timing, and sound.
The workshop is structured as a shared practice space: a place to test ideas, take creative risks, and develop your own approaches to making. Emphasis is placed on process over outcome, with space for both individual exploration and working together.
Participants are supported to build awareness of their creative choices, expand their movement language, and discover new ways of composing and relating within a group.
This workshop is a lab space for experimentation and play. For imaginative risk taking & to be supported in your creative ideas, with permission to unlock your creativity.
Inspired by: COLLECTIVE EFFERVESCENCE ~ a sociological concept coined by Emile Durkheim, referring to moments in time, where a community or society may come together and simultaneously communicate the same thought and participate in the same action. Such an event then causes collective effervescence, a phenomena which excites individuals and serves to unify the group.Borrowing from this sociological idea.
Photography: Shed Mojahid for Kalakeli Movement Arts Retreat 2023
“Thank you Sarah for teaching me patience, a certain level of detachment ...and most importantly for teaching me the deep meaning of how to be democratic with my fellow dancers/artists”
Questions we might ask along the way…
What is our most ‘truthful’ reality right here NOW? The Personal, Universal & False, Real & Imagined.
Could we explore simultaneously hosting past, present & future events / memories in our body all at once? How can we then construct and deconstruct these multiple realities, to coexist in one space and time?
Could we innovate these multiple realities? Playing with how they might mix in unique ways to create exciting new fictions.
Together, we will explore & exploit these questions through a variety of choreographic & composition tools. We will test them out, like trying new outfits on for size, digging deeper into our creative thinking and doing capacity. With the purpose being to harness our own unique entry points into creativity, & to generate modern, diverse & relevant performance action.
