4. bis 7. März 2019
"How to waste time on the dance floor, an experimental space of exchange and undoing for artists. How to waste time on the dance floor continues the performance and movement practice of Manuel Scheiwiller and his collective the young boy dancing group.
This workshop is meant as a moment to rethink how to continue to nourish ourselves as we nourish others, it is meant to take seriously the desire to spend a life in art as a vocation not an accomplishment, it is meant to disrupt the point of view that that which is known is
mastered and fixed, it is meant to give the more experienced artist the joy of feeling inexperienced.
The question or a thought is proposed in the invitation, as an activator for these days to fly off into whatever direction that hopefully couldn't be expected before it happens.
So here it is: what would be the consequences of thinking of the dance class as a group piece? We guess it might help us pay attention to the multiple directions that are active within the class: thoughts, movements, proximities, complicity, enthusiasm or doubt, etc., all traveling across space and bodies.
What, other than information, choreographs the class?
Beyond the determined role of the teacher, is the group an authoring entity? Can decrypting the score that is a situation be an access to teaching? To studying? How is the arcane and complex function of an individual body addressed in this dynamic of "group"? How is specific body knowledge be transmitted in this situation?
This proposition arises from a phenomenon already in evidence. In our art landscape, there seem to be many who are currently using the workshop and class as a performance form. What necessities bring about such a tendency and what art is it producing? And eventually, which practices can we observe at the moment, which seem to make pieces as classes or workshops? So as usual, lots of questions.
They can all go away or stay once we get together.
Explicitly we plan to experience collectives highs and lows with body and movement based working methods."
Manuel Scheiwiller