The Wild Thing
Re-Entering the Body’s Natural Wilderness
Physical Theater & Somatics Workshop
This workshop combines somatic awareness work with the beauty of martial arts, butoh-influenced contemporary dance, the contemplative wonder of quigong and the raw expression of Action Theater improvisation. Each day will start with sensory awareness work and gradually build into dynamic movement and voice exploration. The body and voice have always been connected through our breathing, nervous and muscular systems. In this workshop, you will re-enter the sensory wild world of the corporeal breath and movement, re-connect with quiet and an inner stillness and yield into the softness that required for wild expression.
The Wild Thing
Re-Entering the Body’s Natural Wilderness
Physical Theater & Somatics Workshop
Dates:
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 13-15.10.17
Times:
09:00-17:00
1.5 hr lunch break
Cost:
$150
Location:
ada Studio
Ufer Studios, Berlin
Teachers:
Shinichi Iova-Koga, Dana Iova-Koga, Satu Palokangas, Sten Rudstrom
Sten Rudstrøm has been working in the field of improvisation for the last 30 years. He teaches and performs internationally, founded the improvisation group EAT and is, also, a member of Streugut (Ingo Reluecke, Zufit Simon, Martin Clausen, and Alexander Frangenheim). In 1986, he met Ruth Zaporah and has continued to work with Action Theater™ since that time.
Shinichi Iova-Koga is the Artistic Director of the physical theater and dance company inkBoat, founded in 1998. The winner of 5 San Francisco “Izzie” awards, inkBoat has performed throughout North America, Europe, South Korea and Japan. He and his wife Dana Iova-Koga conduct an annual workshop (“Dance on Land”) exploring dance in uncultivated environments. Shinichi is the editor of the book “95 Rituals.” He has taught primarily at Mills College, and at Stanford University, UC Davis, University of Utah, UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, SF State University and Anna Halprin’s Mountain Home Studio. He is a certified teacher of Action Theater™. His current practice includes Noguchi Taiso, Qi Gong, Noh Theater, Shakuhachi and Aikido. His mentors include Anna Halprin (Dance Maker), Ruth Zaporah (Action Theater) and Ralph Lemon (Dance Maker).
Dana Iova-Koga received her BFA from New York University’s Experimental Theater Wing. She went on to dance and farm in Japan with Min Tanaka for patterns, from cells to organisms to systems, and the emerging motions of coherence. Along her somatic, dance and improvisation studies (including Action Theater), she holds an MA in Live Art and Performance Studies. In addition to leading “Dance on Land” with Shinichi, Dana teaches Qi Gong.
Satu Palokangas is a registered somatic movement therapist and educator, certified in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, Body-Mind Centering® and Dynamic Embodiment, and has been teaching since 1997. Her work is rooted in the deep embodied research of our evolutionary history and developmental several years. That experience of connecting the practices of dance making and working on the land was was the beginning of her ongoing exploration in how the macrocosm of the human body relates to the macrocosm of the natural world. She is a guest teacher at the University of Arts in Helsinki, a faculty member of Eino Roiha Institute’s Dance and Movement Therapy Training in Jyväskylä, Finland and has previously organized and co-directed the Moving On Center’s Somatic Education & Socially Conscious Body programs in Berlin, Germany.