JONAS BYARUHANGA, KEIGA DANCE COMPANY, Uganda
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP July 15th, 14.30h-16.30h
No application is needed. Price: 200 SEK, Please note! Cash payment only.
The workshop will work towards the recognition and reconstruction of a new sense on body by appealing to various perceptions, the workshop participants will be taught how to use their physical bodies without dance techniques as the tools of exploration to search for the roots of bodily movement.
The process will explore new ways of communicating to the audience through creating an existence that is open, innovative, unstable and yet a constant quest, although this will not worry about heritage and authenticity, the participants will also try to express as they link up the gap between humor born between obsessive concentration of perception when performing and the reality of normal everyday life working as far away as possible from the physicality developed under the conventional dance techniques.
The development of the workshop will seek for the truth with continuous questionings and denials of the existing concepts and conventional aesthetics. As we explore the wave of tremendous world movement of ideas and creativity which stimulate and enriches us, are we loosing our landmarks and references to the point where our identity is suffering? Like this, we will try to approach the notion of identity.
As the workshop participants might have got what we could call an illusion of dance influences, there will be transmission a contrast between the already existing or transmitted technical tools and the less controlled aesthetics that seem incorrect in western terms.
THE OBJECTIVES AND SIGNIFICANCE
In the workshop will try to show a less complicated encouragement of the integration of movement disciplines without forgetting the exposure that the new era of artists work differently.
In the past, having an artists view of dance was difficult and misunderstood, with its traditions so deeply rooted in the way of life in societies most especially in Africa, but today its possible to take dance far from the beaten track and give personal interpretations and a different point of view and therefore will take this platform to explore ways of expressing thoughts and ideas relevant to our societies by using the insight into the current practice of dance.
During the workshop we will discover the choreographic explorations and reflections of demanding artistic approaches without fear of being accused of having lost ones roots or being an artist in distress.
The workshop will reflect the young generation of change in choreographic approaches in phase with everyday realities.
These explorations will be approached with diversity and the link between traditional and modern influences which would not necessarily invite spectators to artistically examine before assigning it a nationality, continent or skin tone.
THE CHOREOGRAPHER/TEACHER
Jonas BYARUHANGA
Working across disciplines his inclusive and collaborative creations inhabit and express his strong vision for dance. His style is generous and diverse taking fragments of histories and communities, then rethreading and reweaving them into a new possibility of coherence without forgetting his personal roots.