Luscious and ballistic – KEY AND TRIGGER
Workshop about performance, improvisation, composition, discourse,
audience and physical techniques

Workshop with Kathleen Hermesdorf/Physical & Albert Mathias/Audio
(MOTIONLAB/San Francisco)

DATE: Monday June 1th TO Friday June 5th, 2009
Termin: Mo-Fr, 1.-5.06.2009

TIME: every day 12:00 am - 5:00 pm
Zeit: täglich 12-17 Uhr

More: http://www.schwelle7.de/Kathleen.html

DESCRIPTION:

LUSCIOUS - a key to access the undulating systems, sinews, curiosity,
intelligence and instincts of the body and mind, to activate the
voluptuous diva/animal deep inside and to articulate the sticky
relationship to gravity.

BALLISTIC - a trigger to break through and shake things up; a trigger
to activate speed, energy, spectacle, big movement, bold ideas and
loud voices.

Practice
A movement intensive, driven by perpetual, visceral live music,
investigating technique and improvisation, solo and partner(s) &
practice, process and performance. Training in breath and energy
modalities, hands on instigation, somatic improvisation and motion
techniques, including methods of falling, inversion and flight,
contextualized in three-dimensional phrases.

Process & Performance
Solo, duet and group work incorporates the training and utilizes
improvised scores and set and created materials in the process. Each
day ends with performance and feedback to recognize and cultivate the
dialogues of key (source) and trigger (target), luscious (internal
experience) and ballistic (external expression).


La Alternativa – Kathleen Hermesdorf & Albert Mathias

La ALTERNATIVA (formerly MOTIONLAB), directed by dancer Kathleen
Hermesdorf and musician Albert Mathias since 1998, is a vessel/vehicle
for training, performance, creation and production. The mission to
create and instigate work of deeply integrated sound and motion
entwines with a commitment to collaborating among mediums and
connecting with artists - locally, nationally and internationally - to
bridge art forms and communities. The company has received substantial
support in San Francisco and recently finished a 5-year Artist
Residency at ODC Theater.

La ALTERNATIVA has toured the US, Europe and Mexico and is a co-
founder of the Alternative Conservatory. Hermesdorf and Mathias both
hail from Chicago, Illinois and have been making work in the West
since 1991 - meeting in 1994 in the multi-disciplinary performance
group, Contraband, led by Sara Shelton Mann. They have been on the
faculty of ODC School since 1996. More at www.la-alternativa.us


LOCATION/Ort: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany
REGISTRATION: info (at) felixruckert.de
PRICE: 200 EUR

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons.
The cost is 10 € a night per person.


--------- Performance June 3th / 3. Juni --------------

STRANGE ATTRACTORS - Performance by La Alternativa

Geometrically, an attractor can be a point, a curve, a manifold, or
even a complicated set with a fractal structure known as a strange
attractor.

La Alternativa will perform „STRANGE ATTRACTORS“ at Schwelle 7 on
Wednesday June 3th at 8:30 pm / 3.6.2009 um 20:30

With:
Kathleen Hermesdorf/Physical & Albert Mathias/Audio (MOTIONLAB/San
Francisco), Laurent Lavolé /Audio & Yoann Tréllu/Video (Berlin)

More at http://www.schwelle7.de/Kathleen.html
More at http://www.la-alternativa.us

ADMISSION / Eintritt: 13 € (red. 9 €)


----------- LOCATION / Ort --------

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6 HH 1. OG
13357 Berlin/Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30-4736 3500
http://www.schwelle7.de
Email: info (at) felixruckert.de

TRAFFIC LINK / Verkehrsverbindung: UB Nauener Platz, Pankstr, Osloer
Str, SB Gesundbrunnen