- FULL NAME: Gyula Berger and Roos van Berkel

- EMAIL ADDRESS: info@lmanalysis.nl

- PHONE NUMBER: +31 6 29208890

- KEY TEACHERS:

Gyula Berger / Budapest

Roos van Berkel / Amsterdam

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- TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY: movement discourse on teaching exhange

- DETAILED CONTENT DESCRIPTION (300 words or more):

Proposal for IDOCDE symposium ’13

‘Your body – My landscape’

by Gyula Berger (HU) and Roos van Berkel (NL)

a movement discourse

on how this exchange and collaboration

has begun at and developed since

the IDOCDE conference in Ponderosa

At the end of the IDOCDE conference in Ponderosa last summer, Gyula invited Roos to come over to Budapest to teach a workshop at his Zero Balett Studio in Budapest. After this first exchange in November 2012, they decided to continue on a structural basis by sharing their knowledge on movement and dance while developing the performance ‘Your body – My landscape’ as well as the workshop series ‘Your body – A landscape’. 

This proposal for the IDOCDE symposium aims at presenting a 2-hour movement discourse on our short & long distance exchange and collaboration of the past 8 months.

Through movement and words, we will explain how we have investigated the common ground between our teaching and movement practices. By identifying and centralizing the lemniscate-shape as a common denominator in our work, we will discuss how our work is connected, how it differs and how this exchange has become an ongoing practice in itself that we want to bring towards a performance and a workshop series.

Besides moving around and talking about the content of the exchange, we will also talk about how we have found ways to keep the discourse going – online via email and Skype and offline during live meetings, and how we have fed this discourse in various ways (writing, drawing, photos, videos etc.) 

Workshop series ‘Your body – A landscape’

Combining Roos’s work with LMA and movement observation to Gyula’s Body-Friendly Technique, we are currently developing the workshop ‘Your body – A landscape’. 

The workshop series departs from the communal ground of our teaching practices and perceives the moving body as a dynamic inner and outer landscape that revolves around the lemniscate-shape.

The didactic structure is based on observing the landscape of your own body through proprioceptive awareness and applied observation of another person’s moving body. Actively treating the information of your body as well as the bodies of the people around you as a source of information, we focus on how the moving body can be perceived as a dynamic, continuously moving landscape that can be travelled and experienced on a sensorial, skeletal, muscular and organ level. The continuously revolving and endless shape of the lemniscate will be the central pillar of the movement observations and explorations we work from.

Performance ‘Your body – My landscape’:

Your body – My landscape’ focuses on the performative body as a landscape. A landscape that is not only formed by a specific outer physical structure marked by time, but can also be perceived as an inner container of experiences collected throughout the years of our lives. Experiences connected to certain stories and memories, which trigger specific emotions and associations. Where do these experiences belong and how do they create a specific inner landscape?

Gyula Berger and Roos van Berkel will focus on discovering each other’s outer and inner landscapes. They want to trace where and how certain experiences, especially the memories thereof, have manifested themselves in their bodies. By inviting each other to look at the world from the other’s point of view, Gyula and Roos will investigate the opposition in gender, the 23 years of age difference that sets them apart and the fact that they have been born and raised on opposite sides from Europe in different political and economical situations. An experiential journey that leads to an encounter of two autobiographical landscapes, perceived through each other’s eyes and moved with each other’s bodies.

- SUMMARY OF CONTENT DESCRIPTION

This proposal for the IDOCDE symposium aims at presenting a 2-hour movement discourse on our short & long distance exchange and collaboration of the past 8 months.

Through movement and words, we will explain how we have investigated the common ground between our teaching and movement practices. By identifying and centralizing the lemniscate-shape as a common denominator in our work, we will discuss how our work is connected, how it differs and how this exchange has become an ongoing practice in itself that we want to bring towards a performance and a workshop series.

Besides moving around and talking about the content of the exchange, we will also talk about how we have found ways to keep the discourse going – online via email and Skype and offline during live meetings, and how we have fed this discourse in various ways (writing, drawing, photos, videos etc.) 

- SHORT BIOGRAPHY 

Gyula Berger: Following an about 10 years of training in ballet, folk dance, jazz and modern dance techniques I entered the Hungarian dance scene in 1984 when I founded my first group, one of the very first modern dance companies. After almost 10 years of working my thirst for knowledge took me to the Netherlands, to the European Dance Development Center, Arnhem where I had studied post-modern dance for 4 years. Returning to Hungary in 1997 I continued teaching workshops and choreographing and performing my own work. Currently I am working with my company, ZERO BALLET and I am teaching contemporary dance regularly at Trafo House for Contemporary Art. I am a member of L1 Association.

Roos van Berkel, CMA:  Educated at Laban London and LIMS New York, I currently teach, perform and create in The Netherlands. Since 2008 I teach Movement Analysis at the Theaterschool Amsterdam (faculty MTD) and at Eindhoven University of Technology (faculty Industrial Design). My latest own works are technology-based performances with audio-visual installation SOVI and a short dance film with humanoid TUlip. Besides creating own work and performing project-based, I have performed with Close-Act Theatre for the past 5 years.

- AIMED AT WHO: anyone interested in how we approached our teaching exchange. Min. 5 people, max. 50 people

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-  TIME REQUEST: 2 hours                                                                                                                                                                     

- TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS (audio, beamer etc):  none                                                                                                                                                                                   

- SPACE NECESSITY (studio size etc): preferably a large studio