Venue Site: Chapel Room #1

Let’s make your smartphone less familiar. Let’s look at it as a site for drama. Screens offer us means of expression and connection, responding to our needs and desires. They are also designed to conceal the deep material violence that makes them possible. How can we use the smartphones we have in our hands to show this hidden life? In this class Emma Bexell shares her practice of site specific “video walks” and introduces them as a way to playfully and critically use the technology to perform the struggle with technology.
Together we create a work for the location we are at, using only our own smart phones.

This engaging master class given by Maisa Perk (the director of Beneath the Skin) invites participants of all backgrounds to explore the power of being fully present in the moment. Combining the joy of exploration and play , mindfulness practices, expressive dance, and sensorial exercises, the session encourages participants to connect deeply with their bodies and surroundings. Through playful exploration and sensory practices, you'll learn to navigate changing abilities and external circumstances with openness and spontaneity, turning everyday moments into authentic and mindful experiences.

What do we refer to when we ask each other to listen. What do I mean when I say - "It is about 'it' not about 'your self'."
Michael Norlind developed his artistic training from Sören Larsson who, after his years with Jerzy Grotowski in Wroclaw, continued to work with physical theatre under the name Kroppens poesi. He runs Scenstudion Gerlesborg - a meeting place and platform for exploring the expressions and possibilities of theatre. He is the artistic director of Gerlesborg's theatre laboratory, which, through the method 'The Craftsmanship and Poetry of the Performing Arts', focuses on creating the conditions for poetry to emerge. As a lecturer at the School of Drama and Music, University of Gothenburg, he focus on physical gestataltung.

It is a completely improvised dance form where we will tap into the physical awareness of our own bodies as a starting point for exchanging with others. Physical touch will be a further exploration that expands into directions such as sharing of weight, giving and receiving impulses and offering the surfaces of our body as a ground for another person. Through the expanded awareness of our physical possibilities and a playful approach, it seems to be possible to slow down or speed up time as well as uncovering a reality that is characterized by interconnectedness a

This workshop invites participants to explore the mimodynamics of materials like plastic, rubber, and packaging materials which remain on Earth for hundreds to thousands of years due to their slow degradability. Together, we will build a tragic chorus that transposes the movement of these materials, then explore voice and text through their dynamics.
This creative journey encourages curious minds and bodies to connect with the tragedy of materials through movement.
Participation: Please wear comfortable clothing that allows for easy movement. Maximum of 16 participants.

"The Somatic and the Social" is a three hour masterclass designed for pre-professional/professional performers seeking to deepen their understanding of the relationship between voice, movement, and embodied memory. Drawing on her background in voice and dance practices, as well as her keen fascination for the staging of expression, Alice will share an amalgamation of impressions, influences, and tools she has collected thus far.

Alice invites participants to appreciate the serenity of tuning into their embodied experiences, while poking fun at the absurdities of social behavioural norms. Together, we will explore the entanglements of the social and somatic in all its glorious nonsense!

We will be start by using everyday objects as score, learning to listen to them, the method is influenced by the book Deep Listening by Pauline Olivieros. Moving on to giving the objects agency through a score of questions to the object, ending with an object choreography. 10-15 people.

Here, a responsive communication takes place where the participants communicate via known and never before known materials. It’s a form of sensory experience where we communicate with each other through different materials and let it take time.

Sensuality and participation
Significant for Kollaborativet [the Collaborative] is that we create sensual performing art, continuously carry out co-creative collaborative processes with children and young people with functional variations and their educators, and have an ongoing dialogue with a number of researchers.

The workshop is led by Lisbeth Hagerman, one of the founders of Kollaborativet, trained in dance and choreography.