ReWire Movement States and ensemble Thinking Performance Lab
july 17-21st 2024
DANCE | IMPROVISATION | SOMATICS | RESEARCH | PERFORMANCE | community
Warmly welcome to five days of improvisational dance practice and performance on a small rustic farm home amongst forests, fields and a lake nearby, outside Höör in Sweden.
We invite you to this unique opportunity to dive deep into ReWire Movement States (RMS); a movement practice investigating improvised performance and the phenomenon of spontaneous and unpremeditated movement states. We will also practice Ensemble Thinking; compositional movement scores for improvised dance making (more info below).
Each day includes five hours of dancing, organic and locally sourced breakfast, lunch and dinner, and time for reflecting and connecting. We invite a focused group of 14 artists dedicated to improvisational forms.
The workshop includes a small informal public showing to the community in Höör on Sunday afternoon the 21st.
Nina Martin is a choreographer, pedagogue and dance theorist (PhD) who has worked and studied with artists such as Steve Paxton, Deborah Hay, Simone Forti and Lisa Nelson.
Martin’s research springs from 45 years of embodied inquiry and applied dance centered in the phenomena of perception, technical process, somatics, health, composition and preconscious movement states.
ReWire—Dancing States and Ensemble Thinking are internationally practiced dance systems initially conceived by Nina Martin and further developed with the Lower Left Performance Collective. This research complements her long practice in Contact Improvisation.
Links: Nina Martin & Lower Left
ReWire Dancing / Movement States evolved from Martin’s choreographic PhD research, and is a somatic dance and therapeutic movement practice that strives to access preconscious movement states through a body-brain process beneath the control of the mind. Martin’s goal is for improvising artists to gain awareness of “dancing in the gap” between preconscious and conscious states of movement. It is a creative approach to improvised performance and also functions as a therapeutic tool.
ReWire Movement States has demonstrated its usefulness for dance artists and adults living with cerebral palsy.
TCU Lead On: Nina Martin’s Research Video
TCU: Dance Leads to Therapeutic Potential
Ensemble Thinking: Compositional strategies for improvised dance making is a system of collaborative group performance practices using compositional movement scores to refine the individual’s ability to perceive, initiate, and support collective action.
ET’s conceptual nature allows for equality of access regardless of background, aesthetics, or physical capabilities.
Location and practicalities
Cost of workshop
SEK 4700 – SEK 5700 (sliding scale)
Food
We serve breakfast, lunch and dinner for SEK 350/day
– this is a mandatory total cost of 1750 SEK per person for five days.
Our meals are vegetarian and made from organic and locally sourced ingredients. The menu is designed and cooked on site by our chef, friend and human ecologist Wilma.
Accommodation on site
SEK 100/night (tent)
SEK 200/night (5-person dormitory)
Please bring your own tent and gear and bath towel if you sleep in nature. Sheets and towel are provided for if you book the dormitory option.
Östra Nyrups Nature Hotel
Accommodation for 2-3 people in a glamping tent can be booked at SEK 800/night (15 min walk through the forest from our location).
Booking via: https://naturhotell.se/en/
Location
Our farm is a 10 min drive with car or bus from the nearest train station Höör. We will arrange one pick up in Höör for those who arrive outside of bus hours.
The closest airport is Kastrup, Copenhagen. The train ride between Kastrup airport and Höör takes 1 hour. Book your public transport ticket via Skånetrafiken.
Address: Östra Nyrup 301, 24391 Höör
There is the option of arriving evening of the 16th or morning the 17th before 10am, and departing Sunday the 21st evening at 18.00 or morning the 22nd.
Registration
Please follow this link to register: https://forms.gle/PsymxPuq9MCoqoaaA
Early registration deadline is May 15th
Questions
Email us at nyrupsdanslada@gmail.com if you have any questions!
We hope to dance with you this summer!
This workshop retreat is organized by Tuva Hildebrand, Plattform för Improvisation & Somatik and project coordinator Kristina Malmefjäll. Its intention is to build community within embodied movement practices and offer in-depth study of improvisational and somatic movement techniques in Skåne.
tuvahildebrand.com 