In this workshop, the body in movement is guided to embody, perceive and explore the shifting relations with space, all other, time and the self. The focus asks how one can jump into the space physically and the imagination, through the layered landscape of relatedness, and playing with time felt and made. The imaginary is accessed through varying entry points. We practice both witnessing and doing through spontaneous, learned, durational and improvised dances facilitated in solo and group work, asking how taking space creates space, and how shared space can make a new space. In moving together we greet the nuances of how personal new artistic tools are developed. All experience levels are invited to this workshop.
Saturday-Sunday 9.-10.5. at 12-15
Instructors: Georgie Goater & Maikki Palm
Place: Zodiak Studio C4
Duration: 6 h
Participation fee: 55 euros
Enrolment by 23.4.
Enrolment here.
Georgie Goater is a dance artist from New Zealand based in Helsinki, interested in diverse embodied perceptions, improvisation and co-creation. She has been performing, teaching and creating in NZ since 2006, and with Touch Compass dance company since 2012. She graduated from Theatre Academy’s MA in dance pedagogy in 2019 and has since performed her work with Kaaos Company and Elina Sarno locally and internationally. She has had the privilege of working with Sally Davison, Gunilla Sjövall and Jonna Lehto, with Maija Mustonen in Pond, and with Anna-Maria Häkkinen in her work Dance. She is currently developing a new co-choreography for Zodiak’s 2020 Autumn programme with The Echoes working group.
Dance artist Maikki Palm is based in Helsinki after some years in London and visits in Auckland. She graduated from Trinity Laban in 2016 and from Theatre Academy’s MA in dance pedagogy in 2019. Palm loves sharing space with movers, buzzing thinkers and dogs.
Currently she creates and performs with a collective Kantola-Palm-Parkkinen and facilitates contemporary dance classes in Finland. Palm & Goater’s choreography Same Sun, in collaboration with a musician James Risby, was awarded in Short&Sweet -festival 2018 (NZ) by a best production and James Wallace awards.
Palm is currently developing a new co-choreography for Zodiak’s 2020 Autumn programme.
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Availability is limited, so sign up in time! Welcome letters and invoices are sent to participants’ email address immediately after registration closes. If you do not find the course letter or the invoice in your email please also check the junk mail folder.
Enrolment is binding. Cancellations must be communicated on the last enrolment day by 6pm the latest by email to zodiak@zodiak.fi. Please check this course's last day of enrolment from above. With the exception of injuries and illnesses certified in writing by a doctor, cancellations made later than the deadline are subject to full course fee. An administrative fee, 10 % of the course fee, will be charged from all cancellations.
Zodiak's courses and workshops can also be paid by Smartum kulttuuri and liikunta vouchers and by SmartumPay application as well as by Edenred Virikeseteli vouchers and MyEdenred mobile app. It is not possible to pay the course fee with cash or with debit/credit card.
For further inquiries, please contact Tiia Kekäläinen, zodiak@zodiak.fi, p. 041 319 8722 (weekdays from 1 pm to 3 pm).
