Performance
From one of Europe's leading choreographers Myriam Gourfink and acclaimed Polish-French composer Kasper T. Toeplitz comes Breathing Monster, presented at Dancehouse (Melbourne), 28 and 29 June.
Blending live music, motion-sensing technology and extreme physicality, Gourfink and Toeplitz undertake a suspenseful journey through the void, where a Breathing Monster emerges in a wonderfully original narrative about abstraction, time and space.
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Workshop
Myriam Gourfink will lead a 5 day workshop on choreographic composition from June 24 to 28.
Gourfink uses a symbolic writing system to compose the geometrical universe and poetic evolution of dance. Having studied Labanotation with Jacqueline Challet Haas, she undertook a quest, using this system as a point of departure, for the formalizing of her own compositional language. The workshop will involve the introduction of a notational system, initially based on Labanotation, developed by Gourfink. Participants will then be supported to develop their own scores and then use choreographic tools, introduced by Gourfink to work with the scores.
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