RADIX WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
24-26 MARCH 2025
24/3 12.00-15.30 MIHRAN TOMASYAN
25/3 14.00-17.00 TEATRO DEL LEMMING
26/3 14.00-17.00 LARS HENNING & KASPER RAVNHØJ
The workshops are free of charge and aimed at all professional dancers, actors, circus artists and mimes + students at BA and MA level, or the equivalent.
The workshops will be conducted in English.
To apply, send your application to info@i-bodies.com by 20/3 with your name and profession. Limited spots, we encourage you to apply sooner rather than later to secure your spot!
MIHRAN TOMASYAN
MONDAY 24/3 12.00-15.30
One of the most enjoyable forms of dance for me as a dancer is improvisation. Just as musicians can freely navigate through sounds, tones, and notes, the same freedom is possible in movement. For a long time, I have been working on creating compositions through improvisation —solo, with a partner, or in a group. I seek to share my experiences in this field with participants in a workshop format. Inspired by my SAR performance, this workshop will blend traditional motifs and music from the geography I came from. It is open to participants who have never experienced improvisational dance before and to bodies curious about moving from the traditional into improvisation.
Mihran Tomasyan started dancing with folkloric dances. During his high school years at Getronagan School, his interest in performing arts was triggered upon watching “Kim O?”(Who’s That) by KUM,PAN,YA. He continued Modern Dance Department at Mimar Sinan Universtiy (1997-2001) and then went to Angers, France to study at Centre National de Dance Contemporain (2001-2002). In 1999, he performed with Rebecca Lazier in the USA and Canada. In 2000, he worked with Yard Dance Group at Martha’s Vineyard Island and in the same year, he performed at New York Downtown Festival with the works they developed in the Island choreographed by Edissa Weeks.
Between 2002 and 2007, he worked as a dancer at Cie Cre-Ange in Paris. He performed in various shows such as Go baby go, I wanna be your dog, Man and Ray, Favorite Things, Embreasse- nous, L’encontre, and Piece a Conviction. Besides these works, he continued performing for internationally acclaimed companies and choreographers such as As Palavras in Belgium, Sasha Waltz in Germany, Da Motus in Switzerland, Association YMA in France and Aydin Teker and Tugce Tuna in Turkey.
He choreographed Mehmet Barış’ı Seviyor (Mehmet Loves Peace, 2005) at Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası which he co-founded in 2003. With this show, the company performed countless times and acquired a strong ground within Turkey’s contemporary dance scene. In 2007, the company opened up their own studio venue at the heart of Istanbul and Mihran has focused his energy to produce works under Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası. He created pieces performed several times like Ters Okyanus, Sen Balık Değilsin Ki, Hayat Ağacı, Gomidas’la Yolculuk, Tüh, Her An Her Şey Olabilir, and Sar”. Since 2012, with his colleague Duygu Güngör, he has been hosting a radio program titled Dance with Çıplak Ayaklar at an independent station called Açık Radyo. Based in Istanbul, Mihran continues to work as a dancer, instructor, studio manager, choreographer and producer.
TEATRO DEL LEMMING
25 MARCH 14.00-17.00
The workshop will be a first exploration of the particular methodology that Teatro del Lemming has developed since its inception in the late 80’s. The peculiarity of Lemming’s work is the use of the senses. The works of the company are based on the sensorial and dramaturgical involvement of the audience hence the performer has to be a guide for the spectator: her role is to be trusted by the spectator and, to obtain this trust, she must listen, adapt herself and be in constant dialogue with the spectator. These elements are the foundations of performers training and are the material of the workshop done by Teatro del Lemming:
The performer is a GUIDE: the one who is able to lead the spectator in the beyond of performance. To be a guide, the performer has to improve her skills of LISTENING – ADAPTATION – DIALOGUE. The work of Lemming’s performers develops these three principles simultaneously in four directions: toward herself, toward her partners, in the space, toward the spectator. The main instrument of this research is the body. The sense/the senses of the body. In this type of scenic work, the body isn’t a prosthesis of the mind, but is fullness, is something naked that permits the nakedness of the aim and the truth of the encounter with other aims and other bodies. For us the five senses of the performer are an appeal to fullness of life and a way to reach the beyond of performance and the creative skills of the performer. Relating with herself, with her partners, with the space and with the spectator, the performer has to bare herself radically, has to research deeply the listening and the attention toward herself and the others."
Teatro del Lemming is an experimental theatre company founded in 1987 by Massimo Munaro and Martino Ferrari. They are recognised as one of the leading companies of the new Italian and European theatre. “THE SPECTATOR'S THEATRE” is the poetics originated and developed by Teatro del Lemming over the past 40 years. Within this framework they question the relation between actor and spectator. During the last sixteen years their research has focused on myth. Through the myth, the actors build bridges between them and the spectators, crossing all conventional barriers and borders and thereby create a real human relation.
The workshop is led by Diana Ferrantini.
LARS HENNING & KASPER RAVNHØJ
26 MARCH 14.00-17.00
‘There is an energy behind all occurrences and material things for which it is almost impossible to find a name. A hidden, forgotten landscape lies there, the land of silence, the realm of the soul, and in the centre of this land stands the swinging temple… in which all sorrows and joys, all sufferings and joys, all struggles and deliverances meet and move together.’
(Laban, 1935, p.89)
In this workshop, we will work on tapping into Laban’s universal soul, an immanent flow, which vibrates and resonates through us all, uniting us, and through which the performers must create (move, dance, voice, do) in a constant dynamic between transforming, (momentarily) fixating their mind-bodies, and transforming anew.
This process signifies the subversive radicality of the performer through the courageous sacrifice of our habitual (and largely fixated) sense of self-identity and yielding to the Other, opening up endless potentiality of new, integrative configurations of being in the world.
Lars Henning trained as an actor at Drama Centre London (University of the Arts London) under the mentorship of especially Yat Malmgren. He performed in numerous productions nationally and internationally, before starting his directing and teaching career in 2000. Since then, he’s taught and directed around 50 theatre productions in Denmark, England, Scotland, Canada, Egypt, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
Kasper Ravnhøj is a choreographer, stunt performer, dancer, actor and teacher. He's the founder and artistic director of Mute Comp. Physical Theatre, and has won great acclaim both as a choreographer and dancer. His characteristic movement language carries an intense presence, an extreme flexibility and floating limbs that seem able to twist in any direction. He is based in Copenhagen, DK, but he’s performed and taught extensively internationally.
In collaboration with Danscentrum Väst and Konstepidemin
Supported by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee International Dance Program
