Venue Site: The Athletes Hall

Get a taste of how the Six Viewpoints and experiential anatomy can wake up your senses and bring your whole self into the room. We’ll move, pause, and play with space, shape, and time — loosening old habits and opening up fresh pathways for presence and connection. Come as you are, step in for a moment of shared exploration, and leave a little more alive to your body and the world around you.

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.

Dive into the vibrant world of Embodied Presence in Motion and experience the essence of this masterclass that brings the magic of sensorial exploration, movement, mindfulness, and play together. Let your senses lead the way as you connect deeply with your body and surroundings.

This unique set-up with Pia "del Norte" Pohjakallio takes the participant on a journey to different parts of one's presence, aiding centering, energy and calm through the use of Qigong, flamenco and yoga.

Step into the studio and wake up your whole system. This workshop weaves Mary Overlie’s Six Viewpoints with experiential anatomy as an ur-training for the performer’s nervous system — rooting presence, agility, and deep listening in the body. Through movement, stillness, and shared space, we’ll loosen old habits and invite the body to think, sense, and imagine in new ways. Together we’ll ask: How do space, shape, time, emotion, movement, and story move through us, not just from us? Come ready to sweat, notice, and be surprised.

The past couple of years I have been hosting a 3 h masterclass combining 30 min qigong, 60 min flamencodance and 60 min yinyoga.

This unique set-up takes the participant on a journey in different parts of one's presence, aiding centering, energy and calm. Qigong creates a rooted presence in the body and the group, dancing together in the encouraging and powerful flamencobodies brings out both sweat, listening and laughter, and the yinyoga calms the system and listens inward.

This class is open to all!
Do wear comfortable clothes and bring an extra sweater for the yinyoga.
The flamenco-part of the class is in a soft-shoe manner/barefoot.

Welcome!

Master class – "Commedia and the Actor", By Ole Brekke, Founder of The Commedia School in Copenhagen. This class will be an active insight into the pedagogy of Carlo Mazzone-Clementi who was together with Ole during 15 years at The Commedia School. This class will focus on spontaneity and the preparation of the actor through the exercises we call “the showers.” The participants will be introduced to the metaphysical mask, the training mask invented by Carlo and developed further at The Commedia School. From this basis we will explore melodrama as a style especially well-suited to take on today’s critical environmental issues.

Viewpoints / Dynamic Listening
Viewpoints is a movement-based improvisation that breaks down the elements of Time and Space into a shared language, where movement becomes a conversation which allows performers to connect and compose in the moment. This workshop dives into that language, exploring how dynamic listening and physical precision can forge a truly visceral ensemble. Train your body like a musical instrument, sharpen your improvisation, and build a deeply connected, spontaneous ensemble.

For this “PracticeFerence”, a talk that mixes a traditional lecture with simple, hands-on exercises, you’ll get to actively try out techniques related to the topic. I will rely on an article by Gaspard Allens in the magazine Reporterre, titled Facing a Suffocating World: An Ecology of Breath.

I quote: ”What connects the murder of African-American George Floyd, suffocated by the police in 2020, and the megafires? The pandemic and air pollution ? Breathing /.../ Never has the atmosphere seemed so unbreathable and the very act of breathing has become a political gesture.

Actor, director, choreographer, and writer, Alan Boone holds a Research Master degree in “Theatre and Other Arts”; from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University.

How is the human-animal body still associated with the natural world? What are the fundamental tools of awareness in our bodily practices? Is dance a vibration, a manifestation of the connections with the natural environment?

Through guidance and durational practice, the atelier aims to illuminate our empirical facts through bodily senses and deepen our inherent skills by exploring the artificial or natural content in which we operate daily. The atelier approached the significant occurrence, as Merleau-Ponty highlighted that all artistic practices pass through the human-animal body. This specific class is merely oriented towards the senses of hearing and touch. We welcome all practitioners from all artistic and environmental fields.