Feb 10 2024 to Feb 17 2024 10 a.m.

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Where

Goethe-Institut Bangalore

716, Chinmaya Mission Hospital Rd, First Stage, Defence Colony, Indiranagar 560038

Event Description

The In C Workshop offers an immersion into the work of Berlin-based choreographer Sasha Waltz under the guidance of Bangalore-based dancer and choreographer Joshua Sailo and Ageliki Gouvi, dancer and choreographer from Greece. In C is initiated by Sasha Waltz and Guests (SW&G), Germany, consisting of a new piece of choreography by Sasha Waltz and created to the contemporary music composition by American composer Terry Riley. About the workshop*: Diving into the choreographic process of In C, dancers will learn the repertory as a reflective tool for playing with composition and rhythm in a dialogue between dance, music and space. Dancers will explore a series of tasks that call for collective and individual choices, and perform a dynamic range of movements within an improvised structure that gives power to the ensemble and freedom to the individual at every moment. This workshop is underpinned by two guiding questions: How can you make a difference with your own choice? How do you find pleasure in dance encounters? This piece invites dancers to balance the space, tune into one another, and actively negotiate their individual choices to make various departures, confluences, harmony, and tension to find resolution. *The workshop is recommended for dancers with at least 2-3 years of training. Dates: February 10 - 17, 2024 (except Sunday) Time: 10.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m. Venue: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Register here to participate. Registration is limited to first 15 applicants. Contact Joshua Sailo: +91 9774011042 | studiosailoway@gmail.com Public viewing on Saturday February 17, 2024, 4.00 - 5.00 p.m. About the facilitators: Joshua Sailo (he/him) A traveller between worlds and mediums, Joshua transforms his experiences into artistic expressions through dance, music, and visual art. His creative practice and research are autobiographical in nature, exploring themes of identity and power from counter-hegemonic perspectives. One of the Artist-in-Residence at D.R.I.F.T. in Dharamshala, he is currently exploring “folk” as a performance and function of togetherness and has been awarded The Himalayan Fellowship for Creative Practitioners by The Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art for his practice based research in devising new approaches to contemporary dance making and composition that stems from folk practices and oral tradition of his birthplace, Mizoram. He is a co-founding member of the 206 Dance Collective and engages with the global dance community through teaching, performances, and podcasting. Ageliki Gouvi (she/her) Ageliki Gouvi is a dancer and choreographer born in Heraklion-Crete, Greece. She studied Dance at the Thessalian Ballet in Larisa, the Greek National Opera Ballet School, and the State School of Dance (KSOT) in Athens. In 2013 she graduated with a Master of Arts in Contemporary Dance from the London Contemporary Dance School in England as an awardee of the Greek State Scholarship Foundation IKY. Since 2015, she is based in Berlin where she is active on the free-lance scene as a dancer and choreographer. She is a guest of the Sasha Waltz Company since 2013 and has been involved in numerous projects, among others in the projects Allee der Kosmonauten, »In C«, Mit Beethoven durch Europa, 9 Symphonien and 'remains’ by the New York based choreographer Andrew Schneider.